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The Busher
(1919)

2007 Kino International edition

Reel Baseball: Baseball Films from the Silent Era (1899-1926),
black & white, 253 minutes total, not rated,
including The Busher (1919), black & white, 55 minutes, not rated,
with Headin’ Home (1920), black & white, 73 minutes, not rated, Casey at the Bat; or, The Fate of a “Rotten” Umpire (1899), black & white, 1 minute, not rated, How the Office Boy Saw the Ball Game (1906) [incomplete], black & white, 5 minutes, not rated, His Last Game (1909), black & white, 12 minutes, not rated, The Ball Player and the Bandit (1912), black & white, 12 minutes, not rated, Hearts and Diamonds (1914), black & white, 33 minutes, not rated, One Touch of Nature (1917) [exerpt], black & white, 18 minutes, not rated, Casey at the Bat (1922), black & white, 6 minutes, not rated, Felix Saves the Day (1922), black & white, 7 minutes, not rated, Butter Fingers (1925), black & white, 16 minutes, not rated, and Happy Days (1926), black & white, 14 minutes, not rated.

Kino International, unknown catalog number, unknown UPC number.
Full-frame 4:3 NTSC, two single-sided, dual-layered DVD discs, Region 1, ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, chapter stops, keep case, $29.95.
DVD release date: 3 April 2007.
Country of origin: USA

This collection of short and feature-length baseball films, including The Busher, has been transferred from film elements provided by Dennis Atkinson, Film Preservation Associates, the Larson-Casselton Collection, the Library of Congress, and Lobster Films, and is accompanied by music composed and performed by David Drazin, David Knudtson and Ben Model.

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.

2005 Grapevine Video edition

The Busher (1919), black & white
and color-toned black & white, 63 minutes, not rated,
with The Pinch Hitter (1917), black & white, 48 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 $14.95).
DVD release date: November 2005.
Country of origin: USA

This budget edition has been mastered from an original Kodascope 16mm reduction print with color-toned sequences.

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

Other silent era Charles Ray films available on home video:
Garden of Eden (1928)
The Pinch Hitter (1917)

Other silent era Colleen Moore films available on home video:
Broken Hearts of Broadway (1923)
Ella Cinders (1926)
Irene (1926)
Orchids and Ermine (1927)
Twinkletoes (1926)

Other silent era BASEBALL films available on home video.

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