Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: Faust (1926)

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Posted by Scott Norwood (Member # 30) on 10-03-2005, 10:06 PM:

5 reels
flat/1.33 (full frame silent)
no track
Clint Phare cues

distributed by Kino
print is in very good physical condition with laser-burned English subtitles
edit: preferred speed is 20-22fps; it looks OK at 24fps

Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 10-04-2005, 04:17 AM:

Hmm... the National Film & TV Archive advises 16fps for this film, which was what I used the last time I showed their print (7-8 years ago, admittedly) and the film looked about right to me. 16fps is the norm for most German material right up until the conversion, unlike in the rest of Western Europe and the US, where camera and projection speeds crept up during the '20s. If this is the 1997 Stiftung Deutches Kinemathek restoration, the David Sheppard DVD runs 115 minutes (maddeningly, none of my attempts with Google will give me the footage). It's a while since I've seen Faust, but I'd have thought that 20-22 would look a bit fast.