Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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A Moonshine Feud
(1920)
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This short western drama, directed by Theodore Joos, stars Texas Guinan.
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 Fatkat Enterprises
201? DVD edition
Texas Guinan Silent Westerns (1918-1921), black & white, ? minutes total, not rated, including A Moonshine Feud (1920), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.
Fatkat Enterprises, no catalog number, UPC 6-35189-66952-8.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD-R disc (two DVDs in the set); 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 accompanied by soundtracks compiled from preexisting 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.
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This
Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .
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 Loving the Classics
201? DVD edition
A Moonshine Feud (1920), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.
Loving the Classics,
no catalog number, unknown 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; $19.99.
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 accompanied by a soundtrack compiled from preexisting music recordings.
We have to wonder if a two-reel film is worth the $20.00 cost of this edition.
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This
Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .
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Other WESTERN FILMS of the silent era available on home video.
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