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Coming to DVD and Blu-ray August 20th from Kino Classics!

Uncle Tom's Cabin (1927)
Directed by Harry Pollard
Starring Margarita Fischer
From the novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Special features:
*2K restoration of the original 1927 release with Movietone score by Ernö Rapée
*Complete 1958 re-issue version, introduced and narrated by Raymond Massey
*Audio commentary by historian Edward J. Blum
*Essay by film historian David Pierce
*New 2K restoration of the 1914 World Film version, starring Sam Lucas, preserved by the Library of Congress, music by Andrew Earle Simpson
*New 2K restoration of the 1910 Vitagraph version, directed by J. Stuart Blackton


https://www.amazon.com/Uncle-Toms-Cabin ... B07SZGSZ8M

This was the first sound feature to play in Saginaw, Michigan.

Franklin Theatre in 1928, IIRC.

Does a Sync score really make it a "Sound Feature"?

According to the Franklin Theatre it did.

The two major theatre chains in Australia had competing inaugural sound features - Union Theatres had The Jazz Singer, and the rival Hoyts chain debuted the synchronised The Red Dance on the same night. Nobody seems to have complained about the latter, though the inclusion of all-talking shorts before the main show might have helped.

Has there been a presale on this yet? I can't find anything on Kino's site.

Darren Nemeth wrote: ↑

Fri Jun 21, 2019 3:33 am

Has there been a presale on this yet? I can't find anything on Kino's site.

It becomes available for prebook on July 23. SRP is $29.95 for the Blu-ray and $19.95 for the DVD.

wich2 wrote: ↑

Thu Jun 20, 2019 8:36 am

Does a Sync score really make it a "Sound Feature"?

Well, it has a soundtrack, played through the sound systems of the day, so I'd say yes. Glancing at magazine ads for such goat gland features as the BEN HUR and PHANTOM OF THE OPREA reissues they are definitely referred to as "in sound." A theater marquee advertised the synchronized OUR DANCING DAUGHTERS as "DANCING DAUGHTERS IN SOUND. " That is, of course, as opposed to a "part talking" or "all talking" feature.

Scott Eckhardt wrote: ↑

Fri Jun 21, 2019 10:20 pm

wich2 wrote: ↑

Thu Jun 20, 2019 8:36 am

Does a Sync score really make it a "Sound Feature"?

Well, it has a soundtrack, played through the sound systems of the day, so I'd say yes. Glancing at magazine ads for such goat gland features as the BEN HUR and PHANTOM OF THE OPREA reissues they are definitely referred to as "in sound." A theater marquee advertised the synchronized OUR DANCING DAUGHTERS as "DANCING DAUGHTERS IN SOUND. " That is, of course, as opposed to a "part talking" or "all talking" feature.

Understood, that designations were fluid for a few Transiting years. But that being said, the POTO redo did have some sync dialogue.

- Craig

Scott Eckhardt wrote: ↑

Fri Jun 21, 2019 10:20 pm

wich2 wrote: ↑

Thu Jun 20, 2019 8:36 am

Does a Sync score really make it a "Sound Feature"?

Well, it has a soundtrack, played through the sound systems of the day, so I'd say yes. Glancing at magazine ads for such goat gland features as the BEN HUR and PHANTOM OF THE OPREA reissues they are definitely referred to as "in sound." A theater marquee advertised the synchronized OUR DANCING DAUGHTERS as "DANCING DAUGHTERS IN SOUND. " That is, of course, as opposed to a "part talking" or "all talking" feature.

Before the Granada Theater in South Bend, Indiana was torn down in the early 1970s, it had an ad taking up an entire exterior side of the building. There was Nipper, listening to the gramophone, with the caption, "For the finest in sound and talking motion pictures, RCA Photophone."

Sound apparently meaning music and effects, talking meaning ... talking.

Here's the cover artwork for our new edition: