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S A P H i R E

PRESENTS: SIREN OF THE TROPICS (1927)
La Sirene Des Tropiques

MOViE iNFORMATiON

[ THEATRE DATE....: 1927
[ RELEASE DATE....: 6/29/2005
[ STORE DATE......: 6/21/2005
[ GENRE...........: Comedy/Drama/Dance
[ RUNTiME.........: 89 Minutes
[ RATiNG..........: 8.8/10 (8 votes)
[ NO. SCREENiNGS..: ???

[ ViDEO BiTRATE...: 876 kBit/s XviD at 21fps
[ AUDiO BiTRATE...: 114 kBit/s Stereo MP3 at 48KHZ
[ ASPECT RATiO....: 1.37:1
[ RESOLUTiON......: 528x384
[ ARCHiVES........: sph-siren.of.the.tropics.rar *50x15*]
[ AVi SiZE........: 701 MB * 718,796 KB * 736,047,104 B ]
[ SUBTiTLES.......: English Intertitles, no subs

M O V i E   S U M M A R Y

Josephine Baker, while not appreciated in her home nation, quite
quickly found favor in France as both a novelty act and as a serious
dancer. She wasn't just a stage performer, however, but also made a
handful of films in France. This disc presents the earliest of
those pictures, a silent that nonetheless capitalizes on her music
hall dance performances. She stars as a Caribbean native who winds
up in Paris and becomes a music hall sensation. The story and the
other acters are pretty lame, but it's a good chance to see Baker in
her prime, as well as some of the dances on which her fame was built.

The video used a PAL transfer for the blended NTSC DVD. I've unblended
it as best I could. The decimated framerate was 21.407fps, which I
slowed to 21fps to make a nice whole number. There's a vob sample
included for anyone that cares to take a look. The audio has a much
lower bitrate than I might like. I had trouble compressing the video,
so I cut the audio size so everything would fit on 1 CD. It's mostly
piano, with some few other instruments from time to time, and it sounds
fine. I set the min/max bitrates to 32/192, and it has the bits
available when it needs them.

Director .........  Mario Nalpas

Josephine Baker ..  Papitou
Pierre Batcheff ..  Andre Berval
Regina Dalthy ....  Agnes Melchior
Marquise Severo ..  Georges Melchior

M O R E  i N F O R M A T i O N

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0135652/
RETAIL DVD: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0009CTTX8/

DVD REVIEW: http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=15825
DVD REVIEW: http://www.digitallyobsessed.com/showreview.php3?ID=7401

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