Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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Winning the
Futurity
(1926)
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This horseracing drama, directed by Scott Dunlap, stars Cullen Landis and Clara Horton, with Henry Kolker, Pat Harmon and Otis Harlan.
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 Alpha Video
2021 DVD edition
Winning the Futurity (1926), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, with From Rags to Britches (1925), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.
Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 8438D, UPC 0-89218-84389-0.
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; $7.98 (raised again to $9.99).
Release date: 3 August 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 likely accompanied by a soundtrack compiled from preexisting recordings.
This is our recommended home video edition of the film but, beware, the publisher confirms that this home video edition has “picture anomalies.”
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This
Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available from
ALPHA VIDEO through . . .
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