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The Stampede
(1921)

 

This B-studio western film was directed by Francis Ford and stars Texas Guinan and Francis Ford, with support from Frederick Moore, Jean Carpenter, Vale Rio and Fred Kohler.

coverGrapevine Video
2017 DVD edition

The Stampede (1921), color-tinted black & white, 56 minutes, not rated, with Letters of Fire (1919), black & white, 12 minutes, not rated.

Grapevine Video, no catalog number, UPC 6-60845-44871-1.
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 ? Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to ? fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 mono sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $16.95.
Release date: 21 July 2017.
Country of origin: USA

This DVD-R edition has been mastered from a good amber-tinted 16mm reduction print. The print often has blasted-out highlight details and the tinting only patrially keeps us distracted from that fact. The windowboxed transfer runs at a slightly faster than natural pace.

The film is accompanied by a music score compiled from preexisting orchestral recordings and is abruptly edited in places.

This may be (unconfirmed) the best available home video edition of this film.

 
This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .
coverAlpha Video
2015 DVD edition

The Stampede (1921), black & white, 45 minutes, not rated, with The Gun Woman (1918), black & white, 60 minutes, not rated.

Alpha Home Entertainment, distributed by Oldies.com,
ALP 7711D, UPC 0-89218-77119-3.
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 3.4 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: 6 October 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 a good 16mm reduction print. The old analog video transfer is taken at sound speed so the action runs at a faster than natural pace, which accounts for the shorter running time than other home video editions. In addition, the picture highlights in this transfer are often blasted out to a featureless white and there are more than one passing analog video glitches that run through the middle of the picture.

The film is accompanied by a music score compiled from lo-fi preexisting recordings.

Not recommended; we think the Grapevine Video edition noted above will be of better quality than this.

 
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coverUnidentified Company
201? DVD edition

Texas Guinan Silent Westerns (1918-1921), black & white, ? minutes total, not rated, including The Stampede (1921), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.

Unidentified company,
no catalog number, unknown UPC number.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD-R disc (two DVDs in the set); 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 ? Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to ? fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 mono sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $17.50.
Release date: 201?.
Country of origin: USA
This DVD-R edition has likely been mastered from a 16mm reduction print.

The films are likely accompanied by soundtracks compiled from preexisting recordings.

The video edition producer has since expanded this release into a three-disc home video edition which is available on eBay. This producer from Stayton, Oregon, has released DVD-R editions under the company names FatKat Enterprises and Rare Silent Films.

 
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Other silent era TEXAS GUINAN films available on home video.

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

 
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