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                | The Great WhiteTrail
 (1917)
 |  This northwoods drama, directed by Leopold D. Wharton, stars Doris Kenyon and Paul Gordon, with Louise Hotelling, Thomas Holding, Richard Bennard, F.W. Stewart and Hans Robert. | 
        
          |  Grapevine Video 2003 DVD edition
 The Great White Trail (1917), color-tinted and color-toned black & white, 70 minutes, not rated, with How Fatty Made Good (1913), black & white, 12 minutes, not rated.Grapevine Video, no catalog number, UPC 8-42614-00036-2. 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; standard DVD keepcase; $14.95.
 Release date: 2003.
 Country of origin: USA
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          | This DVD-R edition has likely been mastered from a 16mm reduction print. The film is likely accompanied by a soundtrack compiled from preexisting recordings. Supplemental material includes a Hughey Mack comedy short. Until a better disc is released, this is our recommended home video edition of the film. 
              
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          |  Loving the Classics 202? DVD edition
 The Great White Trail (1917), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.Loving the Classics, no catalog number, 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 stereo sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $14.99.
 Release date: 202?
 Country of origin: USA
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          | This DVD-R edition has likely been mastered from a 16mm reduction print. The film is likely accompanied by a soundtrack compiled from preexisting music recordings. 
              
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                  Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . . |   |  | 
        
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