What is RETRO FORMAT - The DarkeningTrail about?

Before Blu-ray, before VHS, there was 8mm film. William S. Hart’s directorial debut from 1915 demonstrates the director’s intuitive grasp of the new medium with its deeply nuanced characterizations and shadowy compositions. A departure from Hart’s signature Westerns, this moody melodrama of unrequited love, infidelity and revenge takes place in frontier Alaska. With shorts including Pacific Electric's 1915 training film on trolley car safety and D.W. Griffith's “Oil and Water” (1913) with Blanche Sweet.

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What is RETRO FORMAT - The DarkeningTrail about?: Before Blu-ray, before VHS, there was 8mm film. William S. Hart’s directorial debut from 1915 demonstrates the director’s intuitive grasp of the new medium with its deeply nuanced characterizations and shadowy compositions. A departure from Hart’s signature Westerns, this moody melodrama of unrequited love, infidelity and revenge takes place in frontier Alaska. With shorts including Pacific Electric's 1915 training film on trolley car safety and D.W. Griffith's “Oil and Water” (1913) with Blanche Sweet.