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Director: Robert Breer

Video format: Only Unofficial Sources

Sources: lightcone.org (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Unofficial SD Streaming

Video Notes:

2K DCP exists but no home release

Directors: Alfred Ames & Howard Kahn

Video format: HD Streaming

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Northeast Historic Film official HD Streaming https://vimeo.com/ondemand/fromstumptoship

Sources: vimeo.com (opens in a new tab)

Director: Ernie Gehr

Video format: SD Streaming

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Unofficial Youtube SD Streaming https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fp3QK3imO9M

Sources: YouTube (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Unofficial Youtube SD Streaming https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fp3QK3imO9M this is the version with the corrected speed adjusting for the fact that the video is shot at 24fps but meant to play at 16fps

Director: Terrence Malick

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Criterion or WB Blu-ray?

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Criterion and WB Blu-ray framed slightly different. Don't know which is more accurate

Best Audio:

1998 WB LaserDisc mono

Director: Vincente Minnelli

Best English-Friendly:

WB Blu-ray

Best Video:

Warner Archive, 2k + 4k scans

Director: Leo McCarey

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Criterion 4k transfer

Best Audio:

Criterion

Audio Notes:

Sony Blu-ray maybe better?

Director: Ingmar Bergman

Best English-Friendly & Video:

BFI Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

BFI Blu-ray > Criterion Blu-ray (slightly)

Best Audio:

BFI/Criterion Blu-ray

Director: Jules Dassin

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Criterion Blu-ray is a newer 4K restoration, and much better than older Arrow Blu-ray and the Arrow reissue is slightly more cut-off than the Criterion Blu-ray too

Director: George C. Stoney

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Flicker Alley DVD

Sources: loc.gov (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Also available on Library of Congress SD Streaming https://www.loc.gov/item/2017604960/ but the Flicker Alley DVD is probably much superior

Director: William Wyler

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Periscope Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Also available in Kino Lorber The Cold Blue Blu-ray as HD extras, or available on streaming

Director: Stuart Walker

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray

Additional Info:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray subtitles are very bad and missing a lot of sentences

Directors: Lawrence Marston & Edwin Thanhouser

Video format: SD Streaming

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Official SD Streaming https://vimeo.com/20262650?fl=pl&fe=vl

Sources: vimeo.com (opens in a new tab)

Directors: Raymond Dowidat & Esther Dowidat

Video format: SD Streaming

Director: Ross McElwee

Best English-Friendly & Video:

First Run Features OOP DVD

Video Notes:

First Run Features OOP DVD otherwise available in SD Streaming

Director: Billy Bitzer

Video format: HD Streaming

Director: Sid Laverents

Video format: HD Streaming

Director: James Algar

Video format: HD Streaming

Best English-Friendly & Video:

HD Streaming

Director: Harold M. Shaw

Video format: SD Streaming

Directors: Gregory Bateson & Margaret Mead

Video format: HD Streaming