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The
Chess Player
(1927)

The Milestone Collection
2003 DVD edition

The Chess Player (1927), color-tinted black & white, 140 minutes, not rated.

Milestone Film & Video, distributed by Image Entertainment,
ID1980MLSDVD, UPC 0-14381-19802-7.
One single-sided, dual-layered, Region 1 NTSC DVD disc; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan image encoded in SDR MPEG-2 format at ? Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to ? fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; 18 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $29.99.
Release date: 29 July 2003.
Country of origin: USA

This DVD edition of Raymond Bernard’s epic film has been mastered from Photoplay Productions’ 35mm restoration print, copied from first-generation nitrate prints struck from the original 35mm nitrate negative, as prepared for broadcast on Thames Television in England. The results are very-good.

The supplemental material includes an audio interview with Tom Standage, an original French press kit gallery (11 images), a text interview with director Raymond Bernard (only available on the disc itself as a PDF), and a stills gallery (24 images).

This Region 1 NTSC DVD edition has been discontinued
and is . . .

Other FRENCH FILMS of the silent era available on home video.

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