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The Darkening
Trail

(1915)

 

This western drama stars William S. Hart and Enid Markey, with George Fischer, Nona Thomas and Milton Ross.

coverAlpha Video
2015 DVD edition

The Disciple (1915), black & white, 66 minutes, not rated,
with The Darkening Trail (1915), black & white, 48 minutes, not rated.

Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 7694D, UPC 0-89218-76949-7.
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 4.0 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 60 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at 384 Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles; 6 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $7.98 (raised to $8.98).
Release date: 1 September 2015.
Country of origin: USA

Ratings (1-10): video: 3 / audio: 3 / additional content: 3 / overall: 3.

This DVD-R edition has been mastered from an 8mm reduction print that is rather flat and dark. Frame jitters, dust, speckling, hairs on the negative, and other print flaws are there just to remind you of how bad 8mm prints are.

The film is accompanied by a soundtrack crudely compiled from noisy preexisting recordings.

Not great, and only recommended until a better home video edition becomes available.

 
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Other WILLIAM S. HART films available on home video.

Other WESTERN FILMS of the silent era available on home video.

 
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