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D.W. Griffith’s Biograph Short Films
(1904-1912)

 

Contents: The Bold Bank Robbery (1904), The Drunkard’s Child (1909), She Would Be An Actress (1909), An Unexpected Guest (1909), His Trust (1911), His Trust Fulfilled (1911), The Girl and Her Trust (1912) and A Temporary Truce (1912).

This collection contains four Biograph shorts directed by D.W. Griffith and (illogically) four early shorts produced by Lubin.

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2019 DVD edition

D.W. Griffith’s Biograph Short Films (1904-1912), black & white, 75 minutes total, not rated, including The Bold Bank Robbery (1904), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, The Drunkard’s Child (1909), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, She Would Be An Actress (1909), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, An Unexpected Guest (1909), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, His Trust (1911), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, His Trust Fulfilled (1911), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, The Girl and Her Trust (1912), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, and A Temporary Truce (1912), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.

Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 8254D, UPC 0-89218-82549-0.
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 mono sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $7.98 (raised to $8.98).
Release date: 23 July 2019.
Country of origin: USA
This DVD-R collection has likely been mastered from 16mm and/or 8mm reduction prints.

The films are likely accompanied by soundtracks compiled from preexisting music recordings.

 
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