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D.W. Griffith
Years of Discovery 1908-1914
(1908-1914)

Contents: Those Awful Hats (1909), The Sealed Room (1909), The Red Man’s View (1909), Corner in Wheat (1909), The Unchanging Sea (1910), In the Border States (1910), His Trust (1911), What Shall We Do with Our Old? (1911), For His Son (1912), The Sunbeam (1912), The Girl and Her Trust (1912), The Female of the Species (1912), One is Business, The Other Crime (1912), An Unseen Enemy (1912), The Painted Lady (1912), The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912), The New York Hat (1912), The Burglar’s Dilemma (1912), The House of Darkness (1913), Death’s Marathon (1913), The Mothering Heart (1913) and The Battle at Elderbush Gulch (1914),

2002 Image Entertainment edition

D.W. Griffith: Years of Discovery 1908-1914 (1908-1914),
black & white, 334 minutes total, not rated,
including Those Awful Hats (1909), black & white, 3 minutes, not rated, The Sealed Room (1909), black & white, 11 minutes, not rated, The Red Man’s View (1909), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Corner in Wheat (1909), black & white, 14 minutes, not rated, The Unchanging Sea (1910), black & white, 13 minutes, not rated, In the Border States (1910), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, His Trust (1911), black & white, 14 minutes, not rated, What Shall We Do with Our Old? (1911), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, For His Son (1912), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, The Sunbeam (1912), black & white, 15 minutes, not rated, The Girl and Her Trust (1912), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, The Female of the Species (1912), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, One is Business, The Other Crime (1912), black & white, 15 minutes, not rated, An Unseen Enemy (1912), black & white, 15 minutes, not rated, The Painted Lady (1912), black & white, 12 minutes, not rated, The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912), black & white, 18 minutes, not rated, The New York Hat (1912), black & white, 16 minutes, not rated, The Burglar’s Dilemma (1912), black & white, 15 minutes, not rated, The House of Darkness (1913), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Death’s Marathon (1913), black & white, 15 minutes, not rated, The Mothering Heart (1913), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, and The Battle at Elderbush Gulch (1914), black & white, 29 minutes, not rated.

Film Preservation Associates, distributed by Image Entertainment,
ID1270DSDVD, UPC 0-14381-12702-7.
Full-frame 4:3 NTSC, two single-sided?, dual-layered? DVD discs, Region 0, ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, chapter stops, double keep case, $39.99.
DVD release date: 10 September 2002.
Country of origin: USA

This collection was originally prepared for laserdisc release in 1996 by producer David Shepard. The source prints run from very-good to excellent.

The film is accompanied by the same theatre pipe organ score performed by the mighty Gaylord Carter.

For reviews of the individual films, see: The New York Hat (1912) and The Battle at Elderbush Gulch (1914).

USA: Click the logomark at right to purchase
a Region 1 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.com.

Canada: Click the logomark at right to purchase
a Region 1 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.ca.

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