Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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King of the
Wild Horses
(1924)
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This Hal Roach western features Leon Bary, Edna Murphy, Charley Chase, Sidney de Gray and Rex the devil horse!
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 TeleVista
2009 DVD edition
King of the Wild Horses (1924), black & white, 59 minutes, not rated.
TeleVista, no catalog number, UPC 0-29502-13602-4.
One single-sided, single-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 ? 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; $19.95.
Release date: 23 June 2009.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD edition from TeleVista is likely not worth the money asked. TeleVista product is generally of poor visual quality.
The film is likely accompanied by a soundtrack of compiled preexisting recordings.
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This Region 0 NTSC DVD edition is available from
TELEVISTA through . . .
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 TeleVista
2009 DVD edition
Silent Western Classics (1924), black & white, 130 minutes total, not rated, including King of the Wild Horses (1924), black & white, 59 minutes, not rated.
TeleVista, no catalog number, UPC 0-29502-20631-4.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD 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 two-disc DVD keepcase; $29.95.
Release date: 23 June 2009.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD edition of Thundering Hoofs should be of the same quality as the TeleVista edition noted above. The discs have been issued under a different cover with the same edition information.
Way overpriced for the low quality of the product.
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This Region 0 NTSC DVD edition is available from
TELEVISTA through . . .
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 Alpha Video
2015 DVD edition
King of the Wild Horses (1924), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, with No Man’s Law (1927), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.
Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 7581D, UPC 0-89218-75819-4.
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; $6.98 (raised again to $9.99).
Release date: 24 February 2015.
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 likely 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 WESTERN FILMS of the silent era available on home video.
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