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Sergei Eisenstein
Silent Classics
Volume One
(1924-1928)

Contents: Strike (1924), Battleship Potemkin (1925) and October (1928).

Tartan Video
2010 DVD edition

Sergei Eisenstein: Silent Classics, Volume One (1924-1928), black & white, 255 minutes total, BBFC Classification 12, including Strike (1924), black & white, ? minutes, BBFC Classification 12, Battleship Potemkin (1925), black & white, ? minutes, BBFC Classification 12, and October (1928), black & white, ? minutes, BBFC Classification 12.

Tartan Video,
unknown catalogue number, unknown UPC number.
Three single-sided, dual-layered, Region 0 PAL DVD discs, 1.33:1 aspect ratio image in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 576 pixels) interlaced? scan MPEG-2 format, SDR (standard dynamic range), ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? Kbps audio bit rate, DTS 48 kHz 5.1 surround sound, Dolby Digital 48 kHz 2.0 stereo sound and Dolby Digital 48 kHz 1.0 mono sound, Russian language intertitles, optional English language subtitles; chapter stops; three-disc DVD keepcase in cardboard slipcase?; £59.99.
Release date: 12 July 2010.
Country of origin: England

This PAL DVD collection of Sergei Eisenstein films has likely been mastered from 35mm materials.

The films are accompanied by music scores composed by Ed Hughes and performed by the New Music Players, conducted by Patrick Bailey, with two alternative vintage soundtracks for Battleship Potemkin, one composed by Kryukov, the other by Edmund Meisel.

North American collectors will need a region-free PAL DVD player capable of outputting an NTSC-compatible signal to view this edition.