Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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That Girl
Montana
(1921)
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This western drama stars Blanche Sweet, Mahlon Hamilton, Frank Lanning and Edward Peil, with support from Charles Edler, Claire Du Brey and Kate Price.
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 Grapevine Video
2009 DVD edition
That Girl Montana (1921), black & white, 68 minutes, not rated.
Grapevine Video, no catalog number, UPC 8-42614-10369-8.
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 7.2 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 60 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 mono sound encoded at 384 Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; 14 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $11.95.
Release date: November 2009.
Country of origin: USA
Ratings (1-10): video: 3 / audio: 4 / additional content: 0 / overall: 3.
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This DVD-R edition has been mastered from a fair to good 8mm reduction print, with the many blasted-out highlights and blurry image details possibly making this one tough going.
The film is accompanied by a compiled music score of preexisting recordings.
Currently, 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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 Alpha Video
2021 DVD edition
That Girl Montana (1921), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, with Lazy Lem (1920), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.
Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 8430D, UPC 0-89218-84309-8.
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 mono sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $7.98 (raised again to $9.99).
Release date: 5 July 2021.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition has likely been mastered from a 16mm or 8mm reduction print.
The film is accompanied by a music score compiled from preexisting recordings.
Not recommended, sight unseen, but this could be the best-looking home video edition of the film available.
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This
Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available from
ALPHA VIDEO through . . .
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Other silent era BLANCHE SWEET films available on home video.
Other WESTERN FILMS of the silent era available on home video.
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