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The
Flying Fleet
(1929)

This MGM action-romance drama, directed by George Hill, stars Ramon Novarro and Anita Page, with Ralph Graves, Edward Nugent, Carroll Nye, Sumner Getchell, Gardner James and Alfred Allen.

Warner Archive Collection
2010 DVD edition

The Flying Fleet (1929), black & white, 87 minutes, not rated.

Warner Home Video,
no catalog number, UPC 8-83316-22720-6.
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 7.5 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 60 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 mono sound encoded at 192 Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; 8 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $19.95 (reduced to $12.99).
Release date: 12 January 2010.
Country of origin: USA

Ratings (1-10): video: 7 / audio: 5 / additional content: 0 / overall: 6.

This DVD-R edition has been transferred from a very-good 35mm duplicate print, as originally prepared for telecast on Turner Classic Movies. The material may originate from a foreign-language print as the main title and the intertitles have all been recreated. The resulting picture has not been digitally stabilized and has its fair share of speckling, dust, emulsion scuffing, occasional vertical scratches, and other print flaws.

The film is accompanied by its original synchronized monaural soundtrack of music and sound effects.

This is our recommended home video edition of the film.

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