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The Toll Gate
(1920)

This William S. Hart western costars Anna Q. Nilsson.

Film Preservation Associates
1999 DVD edition

The Toll Gate (1920), black & white and color-tinted black & white, 73 minutes, not rated,
with His Bitter Pill (1916), black & white, 20 minutes, not rated.

Film Preservation Associates, distributed by Image Entertainment, ID4728DSDVD, UPC 0-14381-47282-0.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD 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 foreign language subtitles; 11 chapter stops; snapper DVD case; $24.99.
Release date: 20 April 1999.
Country of origin: USA •

Ratings (1-10): video: 6 / audio: 5 / additional content: 6 / overall: 6.

This early DVD edition of The Toll Gate has been mastered from what appears to be a very-good 16mm reduction print duplicated from source material that is moderately scuffed, scratched and speckled. The older full-frame natural-speed video transfer is OK, but the color-tinting is a bit darker than it should be, resulting at time in eyestrain.

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

His Bitter Pill has been mastered from very-good 16mm reduction print materials.

The film could benefit from a new video transfer from 35mm film materials — and nix the music, please!

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Sinister Cinema
2006? DVD edition

The Toll Gate (1920), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.

Sinister Cinema, W328, no UPC number.
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 mono sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $11.95 (reduced to $8.95).
Release date: 2006?
Country of origin: USA

This budget DVD-R edition has been mastered from a 16mm reduction print.

The film is likely accompanied by a music score pieced together from preexisting recordings.

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

Sunrise Silents
2004 DVD edition

The Toll Gate (1920), color-toned black & white, 75 minutes, not rated.

Sunrise Silents,
TGWH-N (NTSC) and TGWH-P (PAL), no UPC number.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC or PAL 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 foreign language subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $20.95.
Release date: 2004.
Country of origin: USA

This DVD-R edition was likely been mastered from a 16mm reduction print.

The film is accompanied by a music score performed on MIDI synthesizer.

If you own a copy of this disc please consider loaning it to us to review for documentation purposes. We pay postage both ways.

SUNRISE SILENTS has discontinued business and this edition is . . .