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A Race for Life (1928)

A Race for Life poster
Directed by
D. Ross Lederman
Genre
drama film, silent film
Country
United States
Runtime
50 min
Rated
NR
Rating
9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A silent drama from 1928 with a synchronized musical score and sound effects. The story involves a race against time that puts lives at stake.

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What happens

A Race for Life is a 1928 American synchronized sound drama film directed by D. Ross Lederman. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using the sound-on-disc Vitaphone process. Originally, the film was presumed to be lost. However, according to the Library of Congress Database, a print was found in the archives of a film museum in the Netherlands. The film was released with a Vitaphone soundtrack with a synchronized musical score and sound effects. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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