| Description |
3 videodiscs (596 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (xxi, 110 p. : illustrations ; 20 cm) |
| Physical Medium |
monochrome |
| Description |
digital |
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optical |
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Dolby |
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NTSC |
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video file |
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DVD video |
| System Details |
DVD ; NTSC, region 0 ; Dolby digital. |
| Note |
Title from container. |
| Cast |
Al Jennings, Beatriz Michelena, Bill Tilghman, Clara Bow, Mabel Normand, Richard Dix, Tom Mix. |
| Audience |
Rating: Not rated. |
| Summary |
Celebrated is the dynamic, gender-bending, ethnically diverse West that flourished in early movies. Presented is the American West as it was recorded and imagined in the first decades of motion pictures. "Brings together 40 silent and early sound films--narrative shorts and features, documentaries, promotional films, newsreel stories, and travelogues--showcasing the American West as it was recorded and imagined from 1898 to 1938"--Booklet, p. viii. |
| Contents |
Program [Disc] 1. Tourists (1912) (6 min.) -- Sergeant (1910) (16 min.) -- Salomy Jane (1914) (87 min.) -- Sunshine gatherers (1921) (10 min.) -- Deschutes driftwood (1916) (10 min.) -- "Promised land" barred to "hoboes" (1936) (2 min.) -- Last of the line (1914) (26 min.) -- Indian-detour (1914) (16 min.) -- Native Americans in newsreels (1921-1938) (5 min.) -- We can take it (1935) (21 min.). |
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Program [Disc] 2. Over silent paths (1910) (16 min.) -- Life on the Circle Ranch in California (1912) (12 min.) -- Broncho Billy and the schoolmistress (1912) (14 min.) -- How the cowboy makes his lariat (1917) (3 min.) -- Mexican filibusters (1911) (16 min.) -- Better man (1912) (12 min.) -- Ammunition smuggling on the Mexican border (1914) (41 min.) -- Lake Tahoe, land of the sky (1916) (6 min.) -- Mantrap (1926) (71 min.) -- Golden west (1938) (8 min.). |
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Program [Disc] 3. Lady of the dugout (1918) (64 min.) -- From Passing of the Oklahoma outlaw (1915) (13 min.) -- Girl ranchers (1913) (14 min.) -- Legal advice (1916) (13 min.) -- From Womanhandled (1925) (55 min.) -- Beauty spots in America: Castle Hot Springs, Arizona (1916) (6 min.) -- Romance of water (1931) (10 min.) -- A new miracle in the desert (1935) (1 min.) -- West in promotion travelogues (1898-1920) (22 min.). |
| Note |
Special features include audio commentary. |
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Accompanying booklet includes program notes by Scott Simmon. |
| Subject |
Western plays.
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Western plays. |
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West (U.S.)
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| Genre/Form |
Short films.
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Short films.
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Feature films.
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Feature films.
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Western films.
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Western films.
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Nonfiction films.
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Nonfiction films.
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Fiction films.
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Fiction films.
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Video recordings.
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Video recordings.
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| Added Author |
Simmon, Scott.
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Jennings, Al, 1863-1961.
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Michelena, Beatriz, 1890-1942.
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Tilghman, Bill.
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Bow, Clara, 1905-1965.
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Normand, Mabel, 1894-1930.
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Dix, Richard, 1893-1949.
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Mix, Tom, 1880-1940.
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National Film Preservation Foundation (U.S.)
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Image Entertainment (Firm)
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| Added Title |
West, 1898-1938 |
| ISBN |
9780974709963 |
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0974709964 |
| Standard No. |
014381700329 |
| Music No. |
NATD7003DVD Image Entertainment |
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