Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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The Girl of
the Rancho
(1919)
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This two-reel western, directed by Jay Hunt, stars Texas Guinan and Pat Hartigan.
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 Fatkat Enterprises
201? DVD edition
Texas Guinan Silent Westerns (1918-1921), black & white, ? minutes total, not rated, including The Girl of the Rancho (1919), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.
Fatkat Enterprises, no catalog number, UPC 6-35189-66952-8.
Two single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD-R discs; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan image encoded in SDR MPEG-2 format at ? Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to ? fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $17.50.
Release date: 201?.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition has likely been mastered from a 16mm reduction print.
The film is likely to be accompanied by a soundtracks compiled from preexisting music recordings.
The video edition producer has since expanded this release into a three-disc home video edition which is available on eBay, and sale benefits the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum. This producer from Stayton, Oregon, has released DVD-R editions under the company names Fatkat Enterprises and Rare Silent Films.
For now, this is our recommended home video edition of the film.
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This
Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .
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 Loving the Classics
202? DVD edition
The Girl of the Rancho (1919), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.
Loving the Classics,
no catalog number, no UPC number.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD-R disc; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan image encoded in SDR MPEG-2 format at ? Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to ? fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $14.99.
Release date: 202?
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition has likely been mastered from a 16mm reduction print. Given that the publisher does not disclose the running time of this edition, we feel this edition is overpriced as they are misleading consumers into thinking that this is a feature-length film.
The film is likely accompanied by a soundtrack compiled from preexisting music recordings.
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This
Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .
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Other silent era TEXAS GUINAN films available on home video.
Other WESTERN FILMS of the silent era available on home video.
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