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SILENT ERA FILMS ON HOME VIDEO
Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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Reel Baseball
Baseball Films from
the Silent Era

(1899-1926)

Contents: Casey at the Bat; or, The Fate of a “Rotten” Umpire (1899), How the Office Boy Saw the Ball Game (1906), His Last Game (1909), The Ball Player and the Bandit (1912), Hearts and Diamonds (1914), One Touch of Nature (1917), The Busher (1919), Headin’ Home (1920), Casey at the Bat (1922), Felix Saves the Day (1922), Butter Fingers (1925) and Happy Days (1926).

2007 Kino International edition

Reel Baseball: Baseball Films from the Silent Era (1899-1926),
black & white, 253 minutes total, not rated,
including 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, The Busher (1919), black & white, 55 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, K529, UPC 7-38329-05292-8.
Full-frame 4:3 NTSC, one single-sided, single-layered disc and one single-sided, dual-layered DVD disc, 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 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.

Other baseball films from the silent era available on DVD home video:
The Busher (1919)
Headin’ Home (1920)
The Pinch Hitter (1917)

Collections and boxsets that contain silent era SHORT DRAMA films.

 
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