Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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Das Eskimobaby
(1918)
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This short feature comedy, directed by Walter Schmidthässler, stars Asta Nielsen and Freddy Wingardh.
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 Edition Filmmuseum
2012 DVD edition
Vier Filme mit Asta Nielsen [Four Films with Asta Nielsen] (1913-1918), black & white, 234 minutes total, not rated, including Das Eskimobaby (1916), black & white, 70 minutes, not rated.
Edition Filmmuseum, 67, unknown UPC/EAN number.
One single-sided, dual-layered, Region 0 PAL DVD disc (two DVDs in the set); 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 576 pixels) interlaced scan image encoded in SDR MPEG-2 format at ? Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 50 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; German language intertitles, optional English, French and Spanish language subtitles; chapter stops; 12-page insert booklet; standard two-disc DVD keepcase; €29,95.
Release date: June 2012
Country of origin: Germany
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This DVD edition starring the famous Asta Nielsen has been restored or reconstructed from 35mm print elements by the Deutsche Kinemathek.
The film is accompanied by a music score composed and performed by Maud Nelissen.
Supplementary material includes a 12-page trilingual (German, English and French) insert booklet.
This is our recommended home video edition of the film. North American collectors will need a region-free PAL DVD player capable of outputting an NTSC-compatible signal to view this edition.
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This Region 0 PAL DVD edition is available directly from . . .
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 Loving the Classics
2025 DVD edition
Eskimo Baby (1918), black & white, 65 minutes, not rated.
Loving the Classics,
no catalog number, no UPC number.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD-R 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; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $14.99.
Release date: 3 June 2025
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition has likely been mastered from a 16mm reduction print.
The film is likely accompanied by a soundtrack compiled from preexisting music recordings.
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This
Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .
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Rare Films and More
202? DVD edition
Eskimo Baby (1918), black & white, 70 minutes, not rated, with Blackmail (1929), black & white, 81 minutes, not rated.
Rare Films and More, 6730, no UPC number.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD-R 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; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $16.99.
Release date: 202?
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition has likely been mastered from files lifted from an Internet streaming site or from another company’s home video edition.
The film is likely accompanied by a music score pirated from another company’s home video edition or a soundtrack compiled from preexisting music recordings.
Note that this company apparently has a history of pirating other home video editions to produce their products. Be aware that purchasing pirated home video editions does not benefit the original edition producers nor the composers whose music is often pirated as well.
For now, this is our recommended home video edition of the film.
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This
Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .
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Other GERMAN FILMS of the silent era available on home video.
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