Alpha Omega who have reconstructed and restored the silent "Das Weib des Pharao" by Ernst Lubitsch have announced the 9th of Sep. in a press release that Blu-ray and DVD will be avaible in autumn this year directly from their website http://www.alpha-omega.de/doku.php?id=en:showroom:pharao_dvd There is no information about region coding, but probably there will be none. They have paid for the restoration by themselves so they own the rights of this version.
The trailer is here: http://www.alpha-omega.de/doku.php?id=en:showroom:pharao_main Information about the restoration: http://www.alpha-omega.de/doku.php?id=en:showroom:pharao_restoration The restored version of of the film will be streamed on the web the 17th of September at 9 p.m. Central European Summer Time (CEST) http://www.arte.tv/de/film/Stummfilm-Das-Weib-des-Pharao/4071190,CmC=4072640.html probably without geoblocking. Best Peter http://www.zlb.de/wissensgebiete/kunst_buehne_medien/videos http://dvdbiblog.wordpress.com/ VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
