Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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The Man from
Texas
(1915)
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Originally a one-reel short produced in 1915, this Tom Mix short feature was expanded using footage from other short Mix westerns from 1914 and 1915 to create this surviving version, released in 1920 (or 1922).
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 Alpha Video
2014 DVD edition
The Man from Texas (1915) [1920 rerelease version], black & white, ? minutes, not rated, with Sage Brush Tom (1915), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, and The Taming of Grouchy Bill (1916), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.
Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 7323D, UPC 0-89218-73239-2.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD-R disc, 1.33:1 aspect ratio imagein full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan MPEG-2 format, SDR (standard dynamic range), ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? Kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 48 kHz 2.0 mono sound, English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $7.98 (raised to $8.98).
Release date: 25 February 2014.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition has likely been mastered from 16mm reduction prints.
The film is likely accompanied by a soundtrack compiled from preexisting recordings.
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 Grapevine Video
2005 DVD edition
The Man from Texas (1915) [1920 rerelease version], black & white, 45 minutes, not rated, with The Heart of Texas Ryan (1917) [1923 rerelease version], black & white, 58 minutes, not rated.
Grapevine Video, no catalog number, unknown UPC number.
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), ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? Kbps audio bit rate, PCM 48 kHz 2.0 mono sound, English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $18.95 (reduced to $14.95).
Release date: August 2005.
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 recordings.
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This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .
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Other silent era TOM MIX films available on home video.
Other WESTERN FILMS of the silent era available on home video.
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