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Rare Silent
Collection #2
(1909-1912)

Contents: The Son’s Return (1909), Savage Princess [rerelease version of Fate’s Interception] (1912) and Shrinking Rawhide (1912).

This collection contains two D.W. Griffith short films featuring Mary Pickford, an a Selig short of old California. Savage Princess is misidentified as released in 1909.

Fatkat Enterprises
201? DVD edition

Rare Silent Collection #2 (1909-1912), black & white, ? minutes total, not rated, including The Son’s Return (1909), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Savage Princess [rerelease version of Fate’s Interception] (1912), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, and Shrinking Rawhide (1912), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.

Fatkat Enterprises, no catalog number, UPC 6-35189-67001-2.
One single-sided, single-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 ? Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to ? fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; slimline CD jewelcase; $5.00.
Release date: 201?.
Country of origin: USA

This DVD-R collection has likely been mastered from 16mm reduction prints.

The films are likely accompanied by soundtracks compiled from music library MIDI files processed on a synthesizer.

The sale of this edition benefits the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum. This producer from Stayton, Oregon, has released DVD-R editions under the company names Fatkat Enterprises and Rare Silent Films.

Sight unseen, this is our recommended home video edition of these films.

This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available from
FATKAT ENTERPRISES through . . .

Other silent era D.W. GRIFFITH films available on home video.

Other silent era MARY PICKFORD films available on home video.

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

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