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17 frame per second. - This DVD edition is a restoration of Carl Th. Dreyer's first feature film as a director. Already in his debut we are witnesses to the thematic mainstay of most of most of his later films. The source of this restoration, supervised by Marguerite Engberg in 1999, is the original nitrate negative. Most silent films were positive cut, with the negative ordered by the lighting designed for the scene; amber for daylight, blue for night and red for fire. The scan has been performed from a new tinted 35 mm print produced from restored duplicate negative in continuity order.