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The Hoosier
Schoolmaster
(1924)

This historical drama, directed by Oliver L. Sellers, stars Henry Hull and Jane Thomas, with support from Frank Dane, Mary Foy, Walter Palm, Nat Pendleton, Dorothy Allen, G.W. Hall, George Pelzer, Arthur Ludwig and Frank Andrews.

Grapevine Video
2006 DVD edition

The Hoosier Schoolmaster (1924), color-toned black & white and color-tinted black & white, 61 minutes, not rated, with And George Did! (1926), black & white, 21 minutes, not rated.

Grapevine Video, no catalog number, UPC 8-42614-10002-4.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD-R disc; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in windowboxed 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan image encoded in SDR MPEG-2 format at 5.4 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 60 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at 256 Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; 6 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $14.95.
Release date: 2006.
Country of origin: USA

Ratings (1-10): video: 4 / audio: 4 / additional content: 4 / overall: 4.

This DVD-R edition has been mastered from a very-good 16mm reduction print that is marked with a higher-than-usual amount of speckling, and the usual amount of dust, emulsion scuffing, exposure fluctations, and other print flaws.

The film is accompanied by a soundtrack compiled from preexisting music recordings that have been processed for ersatz stereo sound.

Supplementary material includes a Sid Saylor comedy short.

For now, this is our recommended home video edition of the film.

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