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Baby Peggy
The Elephant in the Room
(2012)

The Milestone Cinematheque
2013 DVD edition

Baby Peggy: The Elephant in the Room (2012), color and black & white, 58 minutes, not rated, with Captain January (1924), black & white, 64 minutes, not rated, Peg of the Mounties (1921) black & white, 12 minutes, not rated, Carmen, Jr. (1923) black & white, 11 minutes, not rated, and Such is Life (1924) black & white, 17 minutes, not rated.

Milestone Film & Video, (now distributed by Kino Lorber), Mile00127, UPC 7-84148-01274-2, ISBN 978-1-933920-474.
One single-sided, dual-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD disc, 1.78:1 aspect ratio image in full-frame 16:9 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan MPEG-2 format, SDR (standard dynamic range), ? Mbps average video bit rate, 192 Kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 48 kHz 2.0 stereo sound, English language intertitles, no subtitles; 12 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $29.95.
Release date: 5 November 2013.
Country of origin: USA

Ratings (1-10): video: 8 / audio: 8 / additional content: 8 / overall: 8.

The documentary features narration co-written by Diana Serra Cary (Baby Peggy) and director Vera Iwerebor, and is presented with rare clips from Baby Peggy’s surviving films (most of the negatives and prints of the earliest Baby Peggy films were lost when the Century Film Corporation studio burned in 1926).

The supplementary material on this DVD edition includes a full-length presentation of the Baby Peggy feature film, Captain January (1924), with musical accompaniment by Donald Sosin and Joanna Seaton.

In addition, this edition contains three short Baby Peggy comedies: Peg of the Mounties (1921), Carmen, Jr. (1923) and Such is Life (1924), all accompanied by music scores performed by Guenter Buchwald.