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The Nell Shipman Collection Volume 1: A Girl from God’s Country (1919-2006)

Contents: Back to God’s Country (1919), and Ah Gee, Forgetting Me . . . Nell Shipman (2006).

This first disc in the Nell Shipman Collection series of three DVD collections features a new presentation of Back to God’s Country. Allegedly, the film has been color-tinted to match the original release prints, and features musical accompaniment by British composer and musician Lindsay Cooper, that incorporates a performance of the film’s title song. The video transfer has been prepared from the same restoration print as the Milestone edition above.

The disc’s supplementary section includes “The History and Restoration of Back to God’s Country” by Canadian film archivist D.J. Turner, who worked on the film’s restoration print, and the Canadian History Channel’s 45-minute documentary, Ah Gee, Forgetting Me . . . Nell Shipman, written and directed by Patricia Phillips of Great North Productions, Edmonton.

This Region 0 NTSC DVD edition has been discontinued and is . . .