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The
Nell Shipman Collection
Volume 3:
From Lionhead Lodge
(1922-1924)

Contents: The Grub-Stake (1923), The Trail of the North Wind (1923), The Light on Lookout (1923) and White Water (1924).

Idaho Film Collection
2008 DVD edition

The Nell Shipman Collection, Volume 3: From Lionhead Lodge (1922-1924), black & white and color-tinted and color-toned black & white, 101 minutes total, not rated, including The Grub-Stake (1923), color-toned black & white, 101 minutes, not rated, The Trail of the North Wind (1923), black & white, 22 minutes, not rated, The Light on Lookout (1923), black & white, 17 minutes, not rated, and White Water (1924), black & white, 29 minutes, not rated.

Boise State University, no catalog number,
UPC 9-780932-12945-1, ISBN 0-9321-2945-5.
One single-sided, dual-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD 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 4.5 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to ? fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 1.0 mono sound encoded at 256 Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; unknown suggested retail price.
Release date: 2008.
Country of origin: USA

This DVD collection of Nell Shipman films has been mastered from a variety of surviving prints.

The film is accompanied by a music score performed on piano by Craig Purdy.

This BSU edition adds supplementary items, including a brief presentation of surviving footage and production photographs of the lost film Wolf’s Brush (1924) (2 minutes); Priest Lake Film (1928) (8 minutes); Priest Lake Films (1950s) (12 minutes); Dedication: Shipman Point (1977) (16 minutes); The Making of The Grub-Stake (1987) (6 minutes); At Lionhead (2007) a documentary presented in 16:9 format (55 minutes).

This edition is now out-of-print.

This Region 0 NTSC DVD edition has been discontinued
and is . . .