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Christus
[La Vie et la passion de
Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ]
(1914)
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Collectors should note that, although released on home by Grapevine Video as the Italian production Christus (1916), this film has been identified as the French film La vie et la passion de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ (1914), the Pathé Frères remake of their film La Vie et la passion de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ (1906).
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 Grapevine Video
2012 DVD edition
Christus [La Vie et la passion de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ] (1914), color-tinted black & white, 69 minutes, not rated.
Grapevine Video, no catalog number, unknown UPC number.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD-R disc, 1.33:1 aspect ratio image in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan MPEG-2 format, SDR (standard dynamic range), ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? Kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 48 kHz 2.0 stereo sound, English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $14.95.
Release date: 7 December 2012.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition has been mastered from a 16mm reduction print duplicated from a 1928 hand-colored rerelease print.
The film is presented with a music score by David Knudtson.
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This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .
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 Loving the Classics
201? DVD edition
Christus (1914), black & white, 69 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; $24.99.
Release date: 201?
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition has likely been mastered from a 16mm reduction print. It has not been determined whether this is the 1914 French production or the 1914 Italian production.
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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Other RELIGIOUS FILMS of the silent era available on home video.
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