The Italian Warship Libia (1921)
La visita dell'incrociatore italiano Libia a San Francisco, Calif., 6-29 novembre 1921
Documentary • 25m
Director: Frank Capra
Cast: Ernesto Burtagli, Dorothy Revier
About the film
A documentary recording the visit of the Italian navy warship Libia to San Francisco.
Director: Frank Capra
Director: Frank Capra
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
1986 Columbia VHS
Director: Frank Capra
1991 Republic Pictures LaserDisc
Sony Frank Capra Boxset 4K Blu-ray
More Documentary on Blu-ray
Mono: 1999 WB DVD
5.1: Criterion 4K Blu-ray
Director: Werner Herzog
Director: Steve James
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has excellent master in SDR and a good encode. BD caps here.
Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has poor audio: The 2.0 is fine but unremarkable, the 5.1 is presumably an upmix with a botched, strongly raised LFE channel which makes the entire track unlistenable on well-tuned equipment. Audio graphs here.
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
While it's included on both Criterion The Palm Beach Story extras and Arrow's Sullivan's Travels' extras, Criterion uses a different source and is vastly superior, see caps
Director: Ebrahim Golestan
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