Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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The Cowboy
Sheik
(1924)
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This comedy short features Will Rogers, with Marie Mosquini, Earl Mohan, Helen Gilmore, William Gillespie and Charlie Hall.
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 Alpha Video
2024 DVD edition
Will Rogers: Silent Comedy Classics (1922-1924), black & white, 67 minutes total, not rated, including The Cowboy Sheik (1924), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.
Alpha Home Entertainment,
ALP 8577D, UPC 0-89218-85779-8.
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; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $8.98 (raised to $9.99).
Release date: 9 January 2024.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition has likely been mastered from 16mm or 8mm reduction prints of the films.
The films are likely accompanied by soundtracks compiled from preexisting music sources.
Probably not a great presentation but this is the only home video edition of the film we know of.
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This
Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available from
ALPHA VIDEO through . . .
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