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kobvindex_ZLB15197404
Format:
2 DVD-Video (ca. 120 Min. + Bonus): s/w
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Tonformat: DD/Mono
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Beih.
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Bildformat: 1.37:1
Edition:
Restored version
ISBN:
1893967514
Content:
Like the musical Chicago that won the Best Picture Academy Award and five other Oscars in 2002, this original 1927 version descends from a 1926 hit Broadway play by Maurine Watkins. It's a terrifically entertaining mix of humor and melodrama as well as a pungent critique of trash journalism. Frank Urson signed Chicago as director, although it is substantially the work of Cecil B. DeMille and his A-list technical staff. (DeMille apparently judged it unseemly to take full credit for this cynical and secular story while his religious spectacle The King of Kings was still in theatres!) Chicago is silent filmmaking at its peak, with an outstanding score for this edition by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra. The 1927 Chicago was long believed a lost film, but a perfect print survived in Cecil B. DeMille's private collection. Restored by the UCLA Film and Television Archive in 2006, it has since been widely performed to rapturous audiences. (Flicker Alley)
Content:
Chicago: 119 min. / B&W / Tinted / Silent / 1:37:1 aspect ratio The Golden Twenties: 64 min. / B&W / 1:33:1 aspect ratio The Flapper Story: 30 min. / Color / Sound / 1:33:1 aspect ratio Chicago is mastered in high definition at 25 frames per second directly from Cecil B. DeMille's original nitrate print, through the courtesy of the DeMille Estate. The Golden Twenties is also mastered in high definition from a 35mm duplicate negative and magnetic sound track. The Flapper Story is mastered from a composite print by arrangement with producer-director Lauren Lazin. All three films are produced for DVD by David Shepard.
Note:
Ländercode: 0
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Orig.: USA, 1927
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Extras: Standfotos und Werbematerial. Orginale Zeitungsartikel im ROM-Bereich. 16seitiges Booklet mit Texten von Thomas H. Pauly, Robert S. Birchard und Rodney Sauer.
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Stummfilm mit engl. Zwischentiteln
Author information:
De Mille, Cecil B.
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