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Robert Harris has created a label for the release of Paramount Pictures silent films. The first release will be Beau Geste (1926). He said fidelity in motion is doing the encode.
November 25th street date

If you want to find out more here's a thread from HTF

Will these be pressed or BD-Rs?

EDIT Last post in the thread says region free and pressed!

I believe the name of Mr Harris' label is Film Preserve. Artcraft Pictures was a distribution company started by Mary Pickford in 1916

#002? What is/was #001?

Matt wrote: Sun Oct 19, 2025 1:41 am #002? What is/was #001?

The Johnstown Flood (Irving Cummings, 1926) https://www.silentera.com/video/johnstownFloodHV.html

FrauBlucher wrote: Sun Oct 19, 2025 1:15 am

I may check this out. I just picked up that director's adaptation of Peter Pan on Blu-ray for $10 via Kino's fall sale, which came highly recommended by Jonathan Rosenbaum. (Haven't got Peter Pan yet, still shipping.)

Ronald Colman really looks exactly the same as he did decades later

You’d think they’d renumber this series if a big selling point is that it’s pressed and the first installment from years ago was not

At The San Francisco Silent Film Festival:
https://silentfilm.org/event/beau-geste/

Is Beau Geste available anywhere for a reasonable price yet? Amazon has it at list for $34.95, which is not beau at all

$34.95? C'est un petit prix à payer pour Beau.

domino harvey wrote: Thu Nov 27, 2025 2:20 am Is Beau Geste available anywhere for a reasonable price yet? Amazon has it at list for $34.95, which is not beau at all

Surely they geste

domino harvey wrote: Thu Nov 27, 2025 2:20 am Is Beau Geste available anywhere for a reasonable price yet? Amazon has it at list for $34.95, which is not beau at all

$22 on Amazon rn w/ymmv coupon

domino harvey wrote: Mon Apr 06, 2026 7:50 am

domino harvey wrote: Thu Nov 27, 2025 2:20 am Is Beau Geste available anywhere for a reasonable price yet? Amazon has it at list for $34.95, which is not beau at all

$22 on Amazon rn w/ymmv coupon

Alas, currently $27.50, and no coupon. Still not bad.