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WhizBang
Volume 1
(1921-1928)
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Contents: The Show Down (1921), The Wolf (1926), Flashing Oars (1927) and Guardians of the Wild (1928).
Action! Adventure! Animal stars! This collection of a feature film and three two-reelers focuses on the action pictures (most of them by Universal) that thrilled audiences of the 1920s. Among the stars in the collection are Art Acord, Ed Burns, George Lewis, Jack Perrin, Fearless the dog and Rex, king of the wild horses.
— Carl Bennett
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 Unknown Video
2009 DVD edition
WhizBang, Volume 1 (1921-1928), black & white, ? minutes total, not rated, including The Show Down (1921), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, The Wolf (1926), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Flashing Oars (1927), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, and Guardians of the Wild (1928), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.
Unknown Video, no catalog number, unknown UPC number.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD-R disc, 1.33:1 aspect ratio image in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan MPEG-2 format, SDR (standard dynamic range), ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? Kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 48 kHz 2.0 stereo sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $19.95.
Release date: August 2009.
Country of origin: USA
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