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The Deerslayer
and Chingachgook
(1920)

This German adaptation of the venerated James Fenimore Cooper tale features a young Bela Lugosi.

2006 Alpha Video edition

The Deerslayer and Chingachgook (1920), black & white, 59 minutes, not rated.

Alpha Video, ALP 5082D, UPC 0-89218-50829-4.
Windowboxed 4:3 NTSC, one single-sided, single-layered DVD disc, Region 0, ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 2.0 mono sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, no chapter stops, keep case, $6.98.
DVD release date: 27 June 2006.
Country of origin: USA

This edition has been mastered from 16mm film elements in a good windowboxed video transfer, with English language intertitles and musical accompaniment on digital piano by Rachel Gutches.

The Alpha Video logomark is superimposed into various corners from time-to-time throughout the presentation. While this is intended to foil other video producers who may be tempted to duplicate this video transfer in a competing product, we lobby for discontinuing the practice since it shows blatant unconcern for the expectations and desires of the consumer, who may wish to purchase a video product that is presented as close as possible to the film’s original state.

USA: Click the logomark at right to purchase
a Region 0 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.com.

Canada: Click the logomark at right to purchase
a Region 0 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.ca.

2005 Grapevine Video edition

The Deerslayer and Chingachgook (1920), black & white, 61 minutes, not rated,
with Outdoor Pajamas (1924), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.

Grapevine Video, no catalog number, no UPC number.
Full-frame 4:3 NTSC, one single-sided, single-layered DVD-R disc, Region 0, ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? kbps audio bit rate, PCM 2.0 mono sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, chapter stops, keep case, $16.95 (reduced to $12.95).
DVD release date: 7 February 2005.
Country of origin: USA

This budget edition has likely been mastered from a 16mm reduction print.

This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R disc is available directly from Grapevine Video.

Other silent era BELA LUGOSI films available on home video.

Other GERMAN silent era films available on home video.

Other silent era WESTERN films available on home video.

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