Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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The Return of
Grey Wolf
(1925)
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This northwoods action drama stars Leader the dog along with James Pierce, Helen Lynch and Walter Shumway.
The film is unintentionally funny as its intertitles try to imply English spoken in a French-Canadian accent. And, you have to love a film story told in flashback by a dog!
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 Grapevine Video
2010 DVD edition
The Return of Grey Wolf (1925), black & white, 53 minutes, not rated, with Rescued by Rover (1905), black & white, 7 minutes, not rated.
Grapevine Video, no catalog number, UPC 8-42614-10375-9.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD-R disc, 1.33:1 aspect ratio image in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan MPEG-2 format, SDR (standard dynamic range), 6.0 Mbps average video bit rate, 384 Kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 48 kHz 8-bit 2.0 stereo sound, English language intertitles, no subtitles; 10 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $14.95.
Release date: 15 January 2010.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition has been mastered from a very-good 16mm reduction print with a broad and detailed greytone range. Some of the brightest highlights are blown-out and the deepest shadows are plugged-up, but the print does look better than most vintage 16mm prints.
The film is accompanied by a cobbled-together score of preexisting film music.
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 Alpha Video
2018 DVD edition
The Return of Grey Wolf (1925), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, with Tangled Trails (1921), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.
Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 8047D, UPC 0-89218-80479-2.
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; 10 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $7.98 (raised to $8.98).
Release date: 13 March 2018.
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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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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