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Rebecca of
Sunnybrook Farm
(1917)

St. Clair Vision
2008 DVD edition

Mary Pickford Collection (1917-1925), black & white, 297 minutes total, not rated, including Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1917), black & white, 69 minutes, not rated.

St. Clair Vision, COLVD81709, UPC 7-77966-81709-5.
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; 8 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; unknown suggested retail price.
Release date: 15 April 2008.
Country of origin: USA

Ratings (1-10): video: 4 / audio: 4 / additional content: 5 / overall: 4.

This low-budget DVD collection of four Pickford films contains an edition of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, coarsely mastered from a substandard video transfer that appears to have utlized a 16mm reduction print, which looks bad enough on standard televisions and horrible on HD monitors. The transfer is rife with artifacts that are plainly seen in intertitles, and make the picture itself ill-defined. Easily the worst-looking film in the collection.

The film is presented with a music score cobbled-together from preexisting recordings.

This is not at all a recommended edition of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm on DVD home video.

This Region 0 NTSC DVD edition has been discontinued
and is . . .

Alpha Video
2014 DVD edition

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1917), black & white, 73 minutes, not rated.

Alpha Home Entartainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 7349D, UPC 0-89218-73499-0.
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; $6.98 (raised to $8.98).
Release date: 25 March 2014.
Country of origin: USA

This DVD-R edition has likely been mastered from a 16mm or 8mm reduction print.

The film is likely accompanied by a soundtrack compiled from preexisting recordings.

This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available from
ALPHA VIDEO through . . .

Loving the Classics
201? DVD edition

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1917), black & white, 78 minutes, not rated.

Loving the Classics,
no catalog number, unknown 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: 201?
Country of origin: USA

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.

This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .