Becky Sharp tries to scheme and manipulate her way to the top in this early and ambitiously scoped three-reel retelling of Thackeray's Vanity Fair.
Video quality preview: [ Flash video (7.15 MB) | Xvid compression (7.66 MB) | WMV compression (7.53 MB)]
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Special features:
An original, scene-specific piano score compiled from period photoplay music.
Technical:
Digitally restored -
46 minutes -
1.33:1 original aspect ratio -
Stereo sound -
NTSC -
All regions
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Vanity Fair
Produced and directed by Charles Kent for the Vitagraph Company of America, 1911
Based on the novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, adapted for the screen by Eugene Mullen
Starring Helen Gardner, Rose Tapley, Harry Northrup, and Tefft Johnson
With John Bunny, Flora Finch, Charles Kent, William V. Ranous, Leo Delaney,
Kate Price, Alec B. Francis, William Shea, and Mrs. B.F. Clinton
Supervised by J. Stuart Blackton
Restoration and musical accompaniment by W. Dustin Alligood
Special content (c) 2009
Available on Super 8mm:
This newly restored version of Vanity Fair is available on Super 8mm film as a one reel condensation (approximately three and a half minutes). The film is silent and is shipped with a cue sheet for live piano accompaniment. Please allow up to six weeks for delivery.
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