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Atlantis
(1913)

This feature drama, directed by August Blom, stars Olaf Fønss and Ida Orloff, with Ebba Thomsen, Carl Lauritzen, Alma Hinding, Marie Dinesen, Fredrik Jacobsen, Charles Unthan and Torben Meyer.

Danish Film Institute
2006 DVD edition

Atlantis (1913), color-tinted black & white, 116 minutes, not rated, with Liebelei (1914) [fragment], black & white, 15 minutes, not rated.

Danish Film Institute,
unknown catalog number, no UPC number.
One single-sided, dual-layered, Region 0 PAL DVD-R disc; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 576 pixels) interlaced scan image encoded in SDR MPEG-2 format at 6.0 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to ? fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at 192 Kbps audio bit rate; Danish and English language intertitles, no subtitles; 12 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; DKK 159,00 / €20,95.
Release date: August 2006
Country of origin: Denmark •

This DVD edition has been produced from a new high-definition video transfer utilizing the 1990s fine-grain restoration negative prepared predominantly from the original camera negative. The color tones have been emulated digitally using a Japanese release print as a reference.

The film was previously available in the USA on a black & white 1998 laserdisc produced by David Shepard. This PAL DVD edition includes an alternate ending shot exclusively for the Russian market (2 minutes).

The film is accompanied by a music score arranged and performed on piano by Robert Israel.

Also among the disc’s supplementary material is an excerpt from an abbreviated color-tinted Japanese version of the film (35 minutes), and an excerpt from Liebelei (1914), director August Blom’s follow-up film (15 minutes).

A pretty darn good-looking edition, which looks even better on an HD system capable of upscaling the image. North American collectors will need a region-free PAL DVD player capable of outputting an NTSC-compatible signal to view this edition.

This Region 0 PAL DVD edition has been discontinued
and is . . .

Loving the Classics
2025 DVD edition

Atlantis (1913), black & white, 121 minutes, not rated.

Loving the Classics,
no catalog number, unknown UPC number.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD-R disc; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan image encoded in SDR MPEG-2 format at ? Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to ? fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $14.99.
Release date: 20 February 2025
Country of origin: USA

This DVD-R edition has likely been mastered from a 16mm reduction print.

The film is likely accompanied by a soundtrack compiled from preexisting music recordings.

This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .