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Biograph Productions
Volume 1
(1896-1905)

Contents: Major McKinley at Home (1896), Grandpa’s Reading Glass (1902), A Search for Evidence (1903), The Moonshiner (1904), The Hero of Liao Yang (1904), The Suburbanite (1904), Tom, Tom, The Piper’s Son (1905), The Nihilists (1905), The Great Jewel Mystery (1905) and A Kentucky Feud (1905).

2007 Grapevine Video DVD edition

Biograph Productions, Volume 1 (1896-1905), black & white, 88 minutes total, not rated,
including Major McKinley at Home (1896), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Grandpa’s Reading Glass (1902), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, A Search for Evidence (1903), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, The Moonshiner (1904), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, The Hero of Liao Yang (1904), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, The Suburbanite (1904), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Tom, Tom, The Piper’s Son (1905), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, The Nihilists (1905), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, The Great Jewel Mystery (1905), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, and A Kentucky Feud (1905), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.

Grapevine Video, no catalog number, unknown 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, standard DVD keepcase, $14.95 (reduced to $12.95).
DVD release date: 2007.
Country of origin: USA

This collection has likely been mastered from 16mm reduction prints of varying quality.

This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from GRAPEVINE VIDEO.

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

Other SHORT DRAMA FILMS of the silent era available on home video.

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