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DVD with English sub-titles

posted 16 years ago by verbumctf
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The box set of Sacha Guitry films 'L'Age d'or' 1936-1938 contains this and eight other films on 8 DVD's with optional French AND English sub-titles. I mention the subtitles because this isn't mentioned in the product description on the web stores nor even on the package!
The set's beautifully produced and a rare treasure but designed, it seems, to remain 'rare'! Besides inadequate marketing in description of contents, it sold for 99euros when it came out last year; and when I just looked, it's now selling 'from other sellers' on the Amazon.fr site for 'from 199euros'!
Poor Sacha, who'd a genius for bringing stories of individuals and of his country to a wide public.

[–] boldandredhead 15 years ago

Is there any chance of you extracting the English subs out of that DVD (mainly, for Le roman)?
There's a bunch of people online who have the movie (such as myself), and can't watch it cause our French is a little rusty and the only other available subs are in Spanish...

[–] verbumctf 15 years ago

How do you propose I extract the text? I don't have the equipment to copy the DVD (which would be illegal anyway). Is there a method of extracting just the sub-titles of a DVD and transmitting them over the net? I can't make the time and effort to copy the script myself and send it you over the net.

The Sacha Guitry box set mentoioned has gone down in price, incidently (99 euros at amazon.fr).

[–] mnoe 14 years ago

Criterion is releasing this in the U.S. in an "Eclipse" box set with three other Guitry films on July 27 (2010).

Hurrah!

last 2 views: The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1937) & The Divorcee (1930)

[–] jrhpax 8 years ago

I just watched a DVD of "The Story of a Cheat," which I borrowed from the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. Whenever I can, I suggest that people get a library card and order DVDs from the library online. Through interlibrary loan, I can get almost any DVD (if it actually exists).