Maybe this has been noted elsewhere, but I think I just discovered something surprising and cool.  Watching The Lost Rebels deleted scene from ROTJ, and the Mon Calamari sounds like Jim Henson/Kermit the Frog/Ernie to me.  I thought, "I know George Lucas wanted Jim before he considered Frank Oz for Yoda.  Maybe he finally got him to participate."  Then at 4:47, the director is talking to him and calls him Jim!  This may be old news to everyone, but I'm pretty sure that's Jim Henson under that Mon Calamari suit!

darth_ender said:

Maybe this has been noted elsewhere, but I think I just discovered something surprising and cool.  Watching The Lost Rebels deleted scene from ROTJ, and the Mon Calamari sounds like Jim Henson/Kermit the Frog/Ernie to me.  I thought, "I know George Lucas wanted Jim before he considered Frank Oz for Yoda.  Maybe he finally got him to participate."  Then at 4:47, the director is talking to him and calls him Jim!  This may be old news to everyone, but I'm pretty sure that's Jim Henson under that Mon Calamari suit!

No, he says Tim because it was Tim Rose who was the puppeteer. 

http://youtu.be/7_WckG-GC9s

Oh, well, it was a fun thought :)

I'm kind of annoyed at these deleted scenes.  I feel as if they cut them a bit short almost deliberately.  If they had simply given a couple more seconds at the beginning and ending in many cases, they could be more useful for fanedits.

darth_ender said:

I'm kind of annoyed at these deleted scenes.  I feel as if they cut them a bit short almost deliberately.  If they had simply given a couple more seconds at the beginning and ending in many cases, they could be more useful for fanedits.

They probably cut theme because of the film stutter, like a visual version of when you start an old record and put the needle on and get the "zwip" sound at the start

emanswfan said:

So, I've been playing aorund with the deleted scenes and they CAN definately be cleaned up to look of equal quality to the rest of the footage, they just take longer than other color correction and other image enhacement jobs.

Is there any chance you can show some examples? I know the interior Falcon scenes with the troops and the blue milk scene are high enough quality that they could possibly be incorporated with little clean up, but the rest are such hit and miss quality wise that even cleaning up scratched etc they would still stick out when placed next to the blu-ray footage. I'd love to see what you were able to do on any of the other scenes through

Its me all over again. ;)

Oh please don't ever leave us, emanswfan!  It looks like Adywan would love your help, and so would we over at the ROTJ Collaborative thread.  We have nearly every role filled, at least for the present, but we are in desperate need of someone to fix the ROTJ deleted scenes!

Please check out our progress here:

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Collaborative-Fanediting-An-ROTJ-Proposition-Keep-track-of-project-progress-in-first-thread/topic/13624/page/1/

Looking forward to seeing your magic :)

Well I don't even have a BD player yet, I'm afraid.  I'm sure plenty others here would be able to help you out more than I.  However, I'm glad you're willing to help.  Please feel free to offer suggestions for our edit.  If you don't mind, I would like to include your name to our first thread, even if you don't wish to officially take part in its creation.  Simply fixing up the deleted scenes would be a huge help and you would deserve credit.

emanswfan said:

convenient! I'm working on th ROTJ deleted scenes right now. But, I could really need some help on the BD ripping process, I was just going into my ripped footage and it doesn't seem to have compresssed properly or something, as I could see compression artifacts I didn't see on my tv. I'm using DVDFab trial, as I don't know what's the best ripping software.

use ANYDVD HD. You can rip the whole blu-ray to your hard drive without any recompression

fishmanlee said:

Its me all over again. ;)

Ha-ha, I like a guy who isn't afraid to poke fun at himself.

One of the trickiest parts of redoing some of these scenes would be adding color.  I know I'm hoping to include Lost Rebels footage, but a couple of the parts I'm interested in are black and white.  Is this even possible?  If so, it may be comforting to know that for our purposes, we'd probably only need a few seconds from the whole black and white section, which would certainly be easier to fix that 5 minutes worth.

I'm happy with any deleted scene improvement.  Please show.

Tim, I imagine it's pretty tough.  The colorized It's a Wonderful Life is only fair.  I think it'd be neat, but I understand it's not worthwhile.  As for filming new actors, I agree that would be fantastic.