I had only previously seen the 103-minute version on TV, so the restored 3-hour version revealed quite a lot of footage new to me. For instance, the great opening montage of King's non-violent messages contrasting against the more militant messages by other speakers was totally cut in the shortened version. King's Montgomery speech in 1955 runs only 2 minutes in the shortened version, but 7 minutes in the restored film. Also significant is the omission of most of the on-screen commentaries by celebrities in the shortened film, but the DVD restores them all.
The new 2-disc, single-layer, all-region NTSC DVD set by Kino Lorber offers an improved, remastered video transfer in its original 4:3 aspect ratio, but it has no subtitles, closed captioning, nor any bonus features. I have a VHS copy of a TV recording of the shortened version, and in comparison to the DVD, I see noticeable improvement, though not as dramatic as I would like. There are still plenty of print damages, especially those from the news footage that the film inherited from, which Kino Lorber had no way to correct without tracking down every news cameraman and obtaining their original film negatives. But we do benefit from the higher resolution of the DVD format, and that makes the DVD very much watchable. The audio quality is on par with the video, and is what you would expect from 1950-60s newsreels.
See my video clip at the top of this review for comparisons of this DVD and my old VHS copy of the shortened version recorded from TV many years ago. For those who can't see my video clip, especially iOS users who can't see flash video, I posted an external link to my video in the comment section. Please go to Amazon's FULL site in order to see the comment section.