"The film, which was widely circulated among the armed services during World War II, was cut 24 minutes after its initial release in 1937 to reflect the wartme perception of the Chinese and to tone down the film's pacifism. Film historian Robert Gitt conducted many years of detective work tracking down the lost footage. Now for the first time this world premiere on Blu-ray showcases the stunning all new digital 4K 2014 restoration, completed using the preservation negative created in 1998 as the primary source, scanned at 4K and integrated with the director's personal nitrate print and deatures an additional one minute of previously lost footage preserving the original performance and another full minute of picture previously represented by the original soundtrack and still images"--Container.