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Contents 1 Alfred Hitchcock: Les Premières Oeuvres 1927/1929, volume 1 1.1 Product Links 1.2 Page Status 1.3 Box Set Contents Overview 1.4 DVD Information 1.5 DVD Contents - Detailed Information 1.6 Booklet/Insert 1.7 Related Releases 1.8 Comments and Notes 1.9 Reviews 1.10 Relevant Message Board Topics 1.11 Images

[edit] Alfred Hitchcock: Les Premières Oeuvres 1927/1929, volume 1

[edit] Product Links

• Amazon (France)

[edit] Page Status

the details of this release have been confirmed as accurate

[edit] Box Set Contents Overview

• The Ring (1927)
• Champagne (1928)
• The Farmer's Wife (1928)
• The Manxman (1929)

[edit] DVD Information

• released by Studio Canal in 2005 (France)
• region encoding: region 2
• format: 2 discs, dual layer (DVD9), in hard cardboard case
• release date: 02/May/2005
• UPC/EAN: 3259130224177
• catalogue: 302 241-7
• main transfer: PAL black & white
• database ID: 9002

[edit] DVD Contents - Detailed Information

• See also the individual pages for each DVD:
  • Le Masque de Cuir (1927) - Studio Canal (France, 2005) - aka "The Ring"
  • A l'Américaine (1928) - Studio Canal (France, 2005) - aka "Champagne"
  • Laquelle des Trois (1928) - Studio Canal (France, 2005) - aka "The Farmer's Wife"
  • The Manxman (1929) - Studio Canal (France, 2005)

• The Ring (1927)
  • length: 86 minutes (01:25:51)
  • audio: silent with stereo (DD2.0) piano soundtrack
  • intertitles: English
  • subtitles: French
  • ratio: 1.33:1
  • bitrate: 5.24 Mb/sec

• Champagne (1928)
  • length: 86 minutes (01:25:45)
  • audio: silent with stereo (DD2.0) piano soundtrack
  • subtitles: French
  • intertitles: English
  • ratio: 1.33:1
  • bitrate: 5.24 Mb/sec

• The Farmer's Wife (1928)
  • length: 94 minutes (01:34:03)
  • audio: silent with stereo (DD2.0) piano soundtrack
  • subtitles: French
  • ratio: 1.33:1
  • bitrate: 5.49 Mb/sec

• The Manxman (1929)
  • length: 80 minutes (01:20:06)
  • audio: silent with stereo (DD2.0) piano soundtrack
  • subtitles: French
  • ratio: 1.33:1
  • bitrate: 5.78 Mb/sec

• Photo gallery for "The Farmer's Wife"
  • length: 1 minute (00:00:55)

• Photo gallery for "The Manxman"
  • length: 1 minute (00:00:58)

• Photo gallery for "The Ring"
  • length: 1 minute (00:00:59)

• Photo gallery for "Champagne"
  • length: 1 minute (00:00:59)

• Optional introductions
  • by Noel Simsolo
  • audio: French
  • subtitles: none
  • ratio: 1.33:1

[edit] Booklet/Insert

• Two sided, with adverts for the other two box sets in the collection.

[edit] Related Releases

[edit] Comments and Notes

• The French subtitles are player generated, but you may not be able to disable them during playback.
• The transfers contain a piano soundtrack by Xavier Berthelot
  • "Ce film vous est presente dans une version modifiee, incluant une musique originale inedite, composee et interpretee par Xavier Berthelot dans l'esprit des pianistes de l'epoque du cinema muet."
• The box set comes with 5 large postcards of stills from the films.

[edit] Reviews

[edit] Relevant Message Board Topics

• Hitchcock's silent films/first sound films on DVD in 2005

[edit] Images

• See also the individual pages for each DVD for further images, screen grabs, etc:
  • Le Masque de Cuir (1927) - Studio Canal (France, 2005) - aka "The Ring"
  • A l'Américaine (1928) - Studio Canal (France, 2005) - aka "Champagne"
  • Laquelle des Trois (1928) - Studio Canal (France, 2005) - aka "The Farmer's Wife"
  • The Manxman (1929) - Studio Canal (France, 2005)

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