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The Millionaire
Paupers
(1915)

Contents: By the Sun’s Rays (1914), The Oubliette (1914), The Millionaire Paupers (1915) [surviving footage], The Scarlet Car (1917), and Triumph (1917) [incomplete].

This collection presents five early Lon Chaney films, two shorts and three feature films, that have only survived in complete, incomplete and fragmented forms.

Undercrank Productions
2022 Blu-ray Disc edition

Lon Chaney: Before the Thousand Faces, Volume 2 (1914-1917), black & white, 160 minutes total, not rated, including The Millionaire Paupers (1915) [surviving footage], black & white, 6 minutes, not rated.

Undercrank Productions,
no catalog number, UPC 7-45808-09974-9.
Two single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 Blu-ray Discs (BD-R BDMV); 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in pillarboxed 16:9 (1920 x 1080 pixels) 24 fps progressive scan image encoded in SDR AVC format at 30.0 Mbps average video bit rate; Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at 192 Mbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard two-disc BD keepcase; $29.98.
Release date: 2 August 2022.
Country of origin: USA

Ratings (1-10): video: 8 / audio: 7 / additional content: 8 / overall: 8.

This BD-R edition has been mastered from surviving archival print materials. This edition presents what may be the best that these prints may offer in image quality terms. The Millionaire Paupers is in very rough condition with the print being in active decomposition when it was recovered in 1992; what image remains is detailed but suffers from frame jitters and several other forms of significant damage.

The films are presented with music scores performed on digital keyboards by edition producer Jon C. Mirsalis.

We recommend this as the best available home video edition of this film.

USA: Click the logomark to purchase this Region 0 Blu-ray Disc (BD-R) edition from Amazon.com. Your purchase supports Silent Era.

Undercrank Productions
2022 DVD edition

Undercrank Productions,
no catalog number, UPC 7-45808-09975-6.
Two single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD-R discs; 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 60 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard two-disc DVD keepcase; $24.98.
Release date: 2 August 2022.
Country of origin: USA

This DVD-R edition has been mastered from surviving archival print materials.

The films are presented with music scores performed by edition producer Jon C. Mirsalis.

We recommend this as the best available DVD home video edition of this film.

USA: Click the logomark to purchase this Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition from Amazon.com. Your purchase supports Silent Era.

Grapevine Video
2014 DVD edition

Lon Chaney: Films & Fragments (1914-1922), black & white, 98 minutes total, not rated, including The Millionaire Paupers (1915) [surviving footage], black & white, ? minutes, not rated.

Grapevine Video, no catalog number, UPC 8-42614-10669-9.
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; $16.95.
Release date: July 2014.
Country of origin: USA

This DVD-R edition has likely been mastered from a 16mm reduction print.

The film is accompanied by a music score composed and performed by David Knudtson.

Supplemental material includes footage from the set of The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923); and trailers for The Shock (1923) and lost film The Big City (1928).