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Romance of the Wasteland
(1924)
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This B-studio western, produced by Art Mix Productions, stars Art Mix with Alma Rayfield.
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 Grapevine Video
2010 DVD edition
Art Mix Double Feature (1924), black & white and color-toned black & white, 101 minutes total, not rated, including Romance of the Wasteland (1924), black & white and color-tinted black & white, 46 minutes, not rated, with Ace of Cactus Range (1924), black & white and color-toned black & white, 55 minutes, not rated.
Grapevine Video, no catalog number, UPC 8-42614-10387-2.
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; 8 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $14.95.
Release date: 2 April 2010.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition has been mastered from a very-good but incomplete 35mm nitrate print, however the results of the older analog video transfer with its lower resolution are not much better than those from a very-good 16mm reduction print. The full-frame video transfer is slow to recover from density differences between shots and often their are blasted-out highlights. This edition would have benefited from an updated video transfer.
The film is accompanied by a cobbled-together score of preexisting film music.
Currently, this the only known home video edition of Romance of the Wasteland.
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This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .
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Other WESTERN FILMS of the silent era available on home video.
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