These include an area to enter notes, and supplementary commentary from an array of academics and actors.
There is supplementary commentary by Paul Reitter, a Kraus scholar, and Daniel Kehlmann, a young Austrian novelist.
A machine with Profile 1.1 (also known as a "Bonus View") is necessary to access what the industry refers to as picture-in-picture, with which one can, while the movie plays, do things like activate a supplementary "commentary" audio track, see a storyboard comparison of finished scenes or watch behind-the-scenes footage of how each shot was set up.
Buchanan also notes that this transitional period included lecturers who were hired to give supplementary lectures or commentary on the film being exhibited and the additional commentary for Shakespeare adaptations was desirable.
Although these are bare-bones editions (no commentaries, little supplementary material), MGM hasn't skimped on the quality of the visual presentation.
Supplementary features include a fine commentary by Ed Sikov, a Wilder biographer, and script pages from the unused opening sequence set in the Los Angeles county morgue.
Subtext pulls in this kind of supplementary information automatically, providing reactions, commentary, etc. that doesn't completely detract from the actual reading.
(The United States edition appears to be based on an excellent disc in the Masters of Cinema series from Britain, from which it borrows the critic Bert Cardullo's interesting commentary but not the supplementary documentaries).
The liner notes are informative but minimal; there is no audio commentary; and a few obvious supplementary items are missing, like the three Chevalier production numbers that Lubitsch directed for the 1930 revue film "Paramount on Parade".
Although Supplementary Materials are discouraged for Perspectives and Commentary, if necessary, they can include materials and methods, other text, tables and figures plus captions and should be prepared and submitted as a separate.docx file.
And with the large storage capacity of the DVD, it's become possible to incorporate a range of supplementary features that bring the medium close to a scholarly edition of a book: commentaries, deleted sequences, historical information, citations of other relevant films and whatever else a dedicated producer can come up with.
