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Civil War Films
of the Silent Era
(1913-1915)

Contents: The Coward (1915), The Drummer of the 8th (1913) and Granddad (1913).

This collection highlights the Civil War film productions of Thomas H. Ince, with one feature film and two early short films, Grandad (1913) and The Drummer of the Eighth (1913).

Film Preservation Associates
2000 DVD edition

Civil War Films of the Silent Era (1913-1915), color-toned black & white and black & white, 134 minutes total, not rated, including The Coward (1915), black & white and color-tinted black & white, 77 minutes, not rated, The Drummer of the 8th (1913), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, and Granddad (1913), black & white and color-toned black & white, 29 minutes, not rated.

Film Preservation Associates, distributed by Image Entertainment, ID9703DSDVD, UPC 0-14381-97032-6.
One single-sided, dual-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD 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 6.5 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 60 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at 224 Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; 22 chapter stops; snapper DVD case (reissued in standard DVD keepcase); $24.99.
Release date: 19 December 2000.
Country of origin: USA •

Ratings (1-10): video: 8 / audio: 6 / additional content: 7 / overall: 7.