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Granddad
(1913)

Grandad (1913) stars a very young Mildred Harris and features future directors Frank Borzage and William Desmond Taylor.

Film Preservation Associates
2000 DVD edition

Civil War Films of the Silent Era (1913-1915), color-toned black & white and black & white, 134 minutes total, not rated, including Granddad (1913), black & white and color-toned black & white, 29 minutes, not rated.

Film Preservation Associates, distributed by Image Entertainment, ID9703DSDVD, UPC 0-14381-97032-6.
One single-sided, dual-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD-R disc; 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 6.5 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; 6 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $24.99.
Release date: 19 December 2000.
Country of origin: USA •

Ratings (1-10): video: 8 / audio: 6 / additional content: 7 / overall: 7.

For this DVD edition of Granddad (1913) a very-good to excellent 35mm print — which is only marred with a light amount of dust, a moderate amount of speckling, plus schmutz, emulsion scrapes and scratches — has been utilized for the older full-frame analog video transfer, which still looks OK on today’s high-definition equipment except for the misrendered pattern (common in standard resolution video images) in Mildred’s houndstooth coat as she visits the poorhouse garden and the cemetary.

The film is accompanied by a custom music score performed on synthesizers by Eric Beheim.

To our knowledge, this is the only available home video edition of the film (Flicker Alley has not reissued this title in their series of manufactured-on-demand DVD-R discs from Film Preservation Associates masters).

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