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

Contents: Those Awful Hats (1909), The Sealed Room (1909), The Red Man’s View (1909), A 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).

Film Preservation Associates
2002 DVD 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, 15 minutes, not rated, A 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, 15 minutes, not rated, His Trust (1911), black & white, 14 minutes, not rated, What Shall We Do With Our Old? (1911), black & white, 14 minutes, not rated, For His Son (1912), black & white, 15 minutes, not rated, The Sunbeam (1912), black & white, 15 minutes, not rated, The Girl and Her Trust (1912), black & white, 15 minutes, not rated, The Female of the Species (1912), black & white, 14 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, 17 minutes, not rated, Death’s Marathon (1913), black & white, 15 minutes, not rated, The Mothering Heart (1913), black & white, 23 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.
Two single-sided, dual-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD discs; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan image encoded in SDR MPEG-2 format at 4.0 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 60 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at 224 Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; 22 chapter stops; four-page insert booklet; double-wide two-disc DVD keepcase; $39.99.
Release date: 10 September 2002.
Country of origin: USA

Ratings (1-10): video: 8 / audio: 8 / additional content: 8 / overall: 8.

This DVD collection, originally prepared for laserdisc release in 1996 by producer David Shepard, has been mastered from source prints that run from very-good to excellent.

The films are accompanied by a number of different music scores, including performances on piano and violin as arranged, composed and conducted by Robert Israel, and a theatre pipe organ score performed by Gaylord Carter.

Supplementary material includes optional audio commentary by Griffith scholar Russell Merritt.

For our comparative reviews of the individual films, see our Those Awful Hats on home video, The Red Man’s View on home video, The New York Hat on home video, Death’s Marathon on home video, The Mothering Heart on home video and The Battle at Elderbush Gulch on home video pages.