Road To Avonlea - Season One Widescreen Digitally Remastered Edition (DVD)
Experience Road to Avonlea like you've never seen it before: meticulously restored from the original film and digitally remastered in the full cinematic splendour that Executive Producer Kevin Sullivan originally intended for the series.
This edition features Closed Captioning for the first time.
Starring:
Sarah Polley, Zachary Bennett, Jackie Burroughs, Mag Ruffman, Gema Zamprogna, Cedric Smith, Lally Cadeau, Harmony Cramp, Colleen Dewhurst, Patricia Hamilton
Synopsis:
Sara Stanley (Sarah Polley) is forced to live with her deceased mother's relatives, the King Family, in the charming town of Avonlea, Prince Edward Island. Sara's story is intertwined with many unforgettable L.M. Montgomery characters from the cast of the original Anne of Green Gables mini-series. Sara's journey down the Road to Avonlea takes her and the entire King Family through tales of romance and fancy, tragedy and comedy.
Special Features:
1. An Unsuspected Journey (The Origin of a Series)
2. Spirit of Place (Short Stories to Screenplays)
3. P.E.I. Transposed (Building a Dreamworld)
4. Prodigious Talent (The Kids of Avonlea)
- Closed Captioning
- Cast Bios
- Trivia Game Promo
- English & French language tracks
Run Time: 600 minutes
Released: 2009
Genre: Family
Rating: G
Languages: English, French
Restoration Process:
The original negative was retransferred to high-definition videotape to restore these shows that were originally packaged on standard definition analog videotape. Additional sharpness enhancements and color corrections were made. The visual effects were recreated in HD for the first time ever. These shows were shown in HD on NHK in Japan.
These new DVD’s were encoded from the HD masters and preserve the HD aspect Ratio (16:9). The quality is far superior to previous versions but please note that the image is not true HD because DVD is a standard definition format.
