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The Disciple
(1915)

This western drama stars William S. Hart and Dorothy Dalton, with Thelma Salter, Robert McKim and Jean Hersholt.

Alpha 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 mono 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: 2 / audio: 3 / additional content: 3 / overall: 3.

This DVD-R edition has been mastered from a very dark 8mm reduction print copied from an S.A. Lynch rerelease print. The picture is pretty blurry and the 8mm print has the (apparently) required amount of dust, speckling, schmutz, exposure fluctuations, and other print flaws.

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

It’s tough having to bless this kind of crappy product, but this is the only home video edition of the film we are aware of.

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