Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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The Taking of
Luke McVane
(1915)
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This short western, directed by William S. Hart, stars Hart and Enid Markey, Clifford Smith, S.C. Smith and Ernest Swallow.
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 Grapevine Video
2015 DVD edition
Films of William S. Hart, Volume Two (1915-1917), black & white, 74 minutes total, not rated, including The Taking of Luke McVane (1915), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.
Grapevine Video, no catalog number, 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 mono sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $19.95.
Release date: February 2015.
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 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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 Alpha Video
2015 DVD edition
The Whistle (1921), black & white, 59 minutes, not rated,
with The Taking of Luke McVane (1915), black & white, 24 minutes, not rated.
Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 7709D, UPC 0-89218-77099-8.
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; 6 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $7.98 (raised again to $9.99).
Release date: 6 October 2015.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition has been mastered from a good 16mm reduction print. The source print is constrasty in places and there is the usual amount of speckling and dust in the coarse video transfer.
The film is accompanied by a soundtrack compiled from preexisting recordings.
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This
Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available from
ALPHA VIDEO through . . .
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Other WILLIAM S. HART films available on home video.
Other WESTERN FILMS of the silent era available on home video.
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William S. Hart filmography in The Progressive Silent Film List
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