Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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Jesse James Under
the Black Flag
(1921)
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This independent feature western, directed by Franklin B. Coates, stars Jesse James Jr. as himself and as his father, with Diana Reed, Jack Neil, Harry Hall, Marguerite Hungerford, F.G. McCabe and Sunshine Baker.
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 Grapevine Video
2003 DVD edition
Jesse James Under the Black Flag (1921), black & white, 69 minutes, not rated, with The Girl of the Rancho (1919), black & white, 12 minutes, not rated.
Grapevine Video, no catalog number, UPC 8-42614-10105-2.
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 mono sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $16.95 (reduced to $14.95).
Release date: April 2005.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition has likely been mastered from a 16mm reduction print of the 1930 rerelease version.
The film is likely accompanied by a soundtrack compiled from preexisting recordings.
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This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .
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 Loving the Classics
201? DVD edition
Jesse James Under the Black Flag (1921), black & white, 69 minutes, not rated.
Loving the Classics,
no catalog number, unknown UPC number.
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; $14.99.
Release date: 201?
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition has likely been mastered from a 16mm reduction print.
The film is likely accompanied by a soundtrack compiled from preexisting music recordings.
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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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