Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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The Deerslayer
and Chingachgook
(1920)
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This German adaptation of the venerated James Fenimore Cooper tale, directed by Arthur Wellin, stars Emil Mamelok and Herta Héden, and features a young Bela Lugosi with Gottfried Krause, Eduard Eysenck, Margot Sokolowska, Kurt Rottenburg, Erna Rehberger and Willy Schröder.
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 Alpha Video
2006 DVD edition
The Deerslayer and Chingachgook (1920), black & white, 59 minutes, not rated.
Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 5082D, UPC 0-89218-50829-4.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD-R disc; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in windowboxed 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; $6.98 (raised to $8.98).
Release date: 27 June 2006.
Country of origin: USA
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This budget DVD edition has been mastered from 16mm film elements, with English language intertitles, in a good windowboxed video transfer.
A rare occurance for Alpha Video, the film is accompanied by a music score composed and performed on digital piano by Rachel Gutches.
The Alpha Video logomark is superimposed into various corners from time-to-time throughout the presentation. While this is intended to foil other video producers who may be tempted to duplicate this video transfer in a competing product, we lobby for discontinuing the practice since it shows blatant unconcern for the expectations and desires of the consumer, who may wish to purchase a video product that is presented as close as possible to the film’s original state.
For now, this is our recommended home video edition of the film.
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USA: Click the logomark to purchase this Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition from Amazon.com. Your purchase supports Silent Era.
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Canada: Click the logomark to purchase this Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition from Amazon.ca. Your purchase supports Silent Era.
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 Grapevine Video
2005 DVD edition
The Deerslayer and Chingachgook (1920), black & white, 59 minutes, not rated, with Outdoor Pajamas (1924), black & white, 10 minutes, not rated.
Grapevine Video, no catalog number, UPC 8-42614-10068-0.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD-R disc; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in windowboxed 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan image encoded in SDR MPEG-2 format at 7.0 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 60 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at 256 Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; 6 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $16.95 (reduced to $12.95).
Release date: 7 February 2005.
Country of origin: USA
Ratings (1-10): video: 4 / audio: 3 / additional content: 3 / overall: 3.
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This DVD-R edition has been mastered from a 16mm reduction print of an English language release version of the film. The older analog videotape master has a few video glitches in it and the print itself contains a typical amount of dust, speckling, and other print flaws.
The film is accompanied by a cobbled-together soundtrack of preexisting monaural orchestral recordings that have been reprocessed for fake stereo. Duophonic sound won’t die, will it?
Supplementary material includes a Charley Chase Jimmy Jump comedy short from a poor to fair 8mm reduction print.
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USA: Click the logomark to purchase this Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition from Amazon.com. Your purchase supports Silent Era.
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This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is also available directly from . . .
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Other silent era BELA LUGOSI films available on home video.
Other GERMAN FILMS of the silent era available on home video.
Other WESTERN FILMS of the silent era available on home video.
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