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Texas Guinan
Silent Westerns
(1918-1921)

Contents: The Gun Woman (1918), South o’ Santa Fe (1919), The Spirit of Cabin Mine (1919), Letters of Fire (1919), The Girl of the Rancho (1919), A Moonshine Feud (1920) and The Stampede (1921).

This collection of B-studio western films starring Texas Guinan features films directed by Francis Ford and Frank Borzage, among others.

Fatkat Enterprises
201? DVD edition

Texas Guinan Silent Westerns (1918-1921), black & white, ? minutes total, not rated, including The Gun Woman (1918), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, South o’ Santa Fe (1919), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, The Spirit of Cabin Mine (1919), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Letters of Fire (1919), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, The Girl of the Rancho (1919), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, A Moonshine Feud (1920), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, and The Stampede (1921), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.

Fatkat Enterprises, no catalog number, UPC 6-35189-66952-8.
Two single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD-R discs; 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; $17.50.
Release date: 201?.
Country of origin: USA

This DVD-R collection has likely been mastered from 16mm reduction prints.

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

For our comparative reviews of some of the films in this collection, see our Letters of Fire on home video and The Spirit of Cabin Wine on home video pages.

The video edition producer has since expanded this release into a three-disc home video edition which is available on eBay, and sale benefits the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum. This producer from Stayton, Oregon, has released DVD-R editions under the company names FatKat Enterprises and Rare Silent Films.

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