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Young Indiana Jones... a preservation (* unfinished project *) - a mass of info & ideas — Page 3

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Hey just joining in the nostalgia. I would love an update on this project. Does anyone know its status? Torrent? Especially the ones never released in the US.

Many thanks!


-Kataan
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Wow. Would love Young Indy to be on DVD. With the Old Indy bookends. Any update on this?

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the most complete collection ever released I believe is the japanese young indiana jones box set and if you can find that it will cost you a lot of money.

It's much cheaper to collect the sean patrick flannery movie edits that come with lucas talking at the end of the tapes.

they did not sell very well i'm affraid that there will not be a yound indy dvd release or a blu ray release forthcoming as lucasfilm is mum on the subject.

although lucas shot 100's of hours of documentaries for a future release. Who knows what will happen maybe a future blu ray/hd-dvd release that is interactive under the lucas learning license to be sold to schools to teach history?

“Always loved Vader’s wordless self sacrifice. Another shitty, clueless, revision like Greedo and young Anakin’s ghost. What a fucking shame.” -Simon Pegg.

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Sorry, your information is incorrect.

The DVD set is done. Lucas and McCallum have said so. But it won't be released until Indy 4 comes out. They want to sell that behind an Indy movie release. LFL is all about selling things behind major media events and Indy 4 would be the event to put the YIC out with.

What we will get is not the originally aired episodes. The Old Indy bookends are gone and there are new ones in their place. I'm kinda bummed about that. I liked the old man actually. Lucas just can't leave anything alone.
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Thanks for the info, Cable-X1!
So a preservation of the originally aired episodes could be worthwhile. I've got all of the VHS episodes that were released in the UK. Could that, or a Laserdisc release (if there ever was one) be a starting point?
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like I said the laserdisc set was released in japan.

the big bone of contention however is that since young indy is 4:3 full frame for the episodes then no good, since there is japanese subtitles within the picture.

The picture mastering on the japanese box set is good for the year it was released 1993, and is probalbly better than any vhs off t.v. Unless of course someone taped them on beta sp or vhs in sp mode in pal.

if you want more info on that set simply go to the laserdisc database and type in a search for young indiana jones.

I just looked at that info on the page there again and it does say subtitles in picture, only contains 15 episodes of the series and a making of.

“Always loved Vader’s wordless self sacrifice. Another shitty, clueless, revision like Greedo and young Anakin’s ghost. What a fucking shame.” -Simon Pegg.

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not sure if this helps at all, but my in-laws have a set of the vhs tapes that i would bet haven't seen more than one or two viewings. i can't remember how many there are, but it seems like it was part of a set.

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Quoted from: http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=4266
Dated 10/08/05

Our good friend Bill Hunt of The Digital Bits website celebrated his 38th birthday yesterday by attending the Lucasfilm press event about the upcoming Revenge of the Sith film release on DVD. While there, he heard Producer (and Luca right-hand man) Rick McCallum speak on subjects mostly having to do with Star Wars, but also about the long-awaited TV-DVDs for The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles. Here's what Bill passes on at his website about that:

McCallum expects there to be 22 Young Indiana Jones Chronicles DVDs in all, 3 of which have been completed. The discs will include some 66 historical featurettes, now in production. Work has been ongoing for about 18 months on the Young Indy DVDs, with about another 18 months worth of work yet to be done. If all goes well, the plan is to tie the DVD release to the theatrical debut of Indy IV (the script for which Lucas is expected to finish this Sunday).

The original timeframe for this release was generally to be somewhere between the last quarter of 2005 and the last quarter of 2006. However, the new comments firmly place the release of Young Indy on DVD to be more in the Spring 2007 timeframe...probably around Memorial Day, since that's a reasonable target to guess at for the debut of a 4th Indiana Jones motion picture! McCallum's comments that tie those two events together match perfectly the info in the last update back in July.

Our thanks (and happy birthday to) Bill Hunt for keeping us updated on this one. Stay tuned for further updates as we get them.


Kinda hilarious that they projected the movie as coming out in the spring of this year, when the damn thing won't even start filming til June...so, sometime next year.
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I used to have a TON of them on VHS from the original airings, but I tossed them, fully expecting them to be on DVD within a few years....that was at least 5 years ago, but I think more.

I'm kinda pissed about throwing them out too. If someone has them on VHS somewhere, I have a Sony DVD recorder and can transfer them no problem. I would love to get the originals in halfway decent quality. I'd rather not buy the DVDs when they come out if I can help it....I don't support Lucas' neurotic tinkering.

They are not very common to find, that's for sure. I've never seen bootlegs on eBay, nor have I seen bootlegs at conventions.
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Originally posted by: Cable-X1

They are not very common to find, that's for sure. I've never seen bootlegs on eBay, nor have I seen bootlegs at conventions.


A UK seller currently has some on ebay (I don't think I'm allowed to post links to bootlegs am I?).

There doesn't seem to be much detail. Probably just DVD copies of the VHS releases.

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I checked eBay and didn't see any auctions for that, but they probably are just VHS transfers of the videos released back in '99 or 2000. Definitely not what I want.....I would like to see the episodes as they originally aired.

Someone said they had a set of original broadcasts, but I haven't heard anything about it since.
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Originally posted by: tweaker
Kinda hilarious that they projected the movie as coming out in the spring of this year, when the damn thing won't even start filming til June...so, sometime next year.


No, its understandable if you've ever seen the Mel Brook's movie Spaceballs. There was a scene were Col. Sanders says that there has been a new breakthrough in home video technology. Movies are now available on video even before they are finished making them. So maybe Lucas has gotten a hold of that technology and is using it.
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I have all the original broadcasts.

Quality can be sketchy because some of them are EP recordings...but I have ALL.
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Do you have plans to release your recordings digitalfreaknyc?
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Sure. I could do it. But i have a ton of other stuff I want to get out first.

I'd probably want to see if anyone else has a better source as well. I know one of mine is cut (that's how it was broadcast in my area of CT) and there are some others that were never broadcast in the US. I'd love those as well.

If anyone wants to collaborate if/when I get around to doing it, please let me know.
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Okay, so does this mean that all of the originally broadcasted episodes are available (in possibly various forms of quality) but they are the 44 seperate episodes? Cause if you guys want I will author a DVD of them if I can get my hands on all of them.
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Originally posted by: 5acrifice
Okay, so does this mean that all of the originally broadcasted episodes are available (in possibly various forms of quality) but they are the 44 seperate episodes? Cause if you guys want I will author a DVD of them if I can get my hands on all of them.


I have all the US broadcast ones.

And I can definitely author myself
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Originally posted by: digitalfreaknyc
Originally posted by: 5acrifice
Okay, so does this mean that all of the originally broadcasted episodes are available (in possibly various forms of quality) but they are the 44 seperate episodes? Cause if you guys want I will author a DVD of them if I can get my hands on all of them.


I have all the US broadcast ones.

And I can definitely author myself


I am sure that you are more than capable... I was just offering since you said you had other things you wanted to do instead... Young Indy is something I have been searching for for a while...
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Originally posted by: digitalfreaknyc
Sure. I could do it. But i have a ton of other stuff I want to get out first.

I'd probably want to see if anyone else has a better source as well. I know one of mine is cut (that's how it was broadcast in my area of CT) and there are some others that were never broadcast in the US. I'd love those as well.

If anyone wants to collaborate if/when I get around to doing it, please let me know.



Hrmm maybe I should have read the rest of the post before getting so excited...
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I am trading (or purchasing if the trade falls through) for a 23 disc Young Indiana Jones Set (all 44 real episodes - broadcast versions uncut and commercial free) with a regular DVD-R menu and a 22 disc set of all the rereleased chapter versions and professional looking menus. Either way I am getting it (unless it is illegal of course) and if I purchase them it may take even longer... but I figured I would make them readily available for all of you. I am tired of waiting and willing to buy them so we can all enjoy them. The quality is supposedly 8.5/9 out of 10 to 10 out of 10. Let me know what you all think about this.

- Chris
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I would be happy to see them in any quality and very grateful to anyone who would share these. You said you would be getting them as long as they are not illegal, since there is no official release of these and the guy is selling them they would have to be illegal. Of course since there is no official release yet I suppose it fits under the preservation category. I would recomend you don't spend too much money on this, since about the time Indy 4 hit the theaters we can be expecting an official release of this. But then again the official release very well may not have all the features this set has, it seems pretty inclusive.

"Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape

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Definitely illegal, be careful where you're ordering from, some of these gray market dealers are sheisters. Do a little research before you order. TVDVDPlanet (and all of its pseudonyms) is one of the biggest of the bad guys.
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Originally posted by: C3PX
I would be happy to see them in any quality and very grateful to anyone who would share these. You said you would be getting them as long as they are not illegal, since there is no official release of these and the guy is selling them they would have to be illegal. Of course since there is no official release yet I suppose it fits under the preservation category. I would recomend you don't spend too much money on this, since about the time Indy 4 hit the theaters we can be expecting an official release of this. But then again the official release very well may not have all the features this set has, it seems pretty inclusive.


What I meant by illegal is I will gladly be the pawn in some shady guy just selling me bootlegs as long as it is legal for me to distribute it (without any pay or anything - Trade/torrent/rapidshare/newsgroup or just PIF). Then I have no problem. The quality is supposedly very good and there is someone I am working a trade out with for both sets. However, I found the same sets and similar available for around 40 - 90 dollars a pop. Now my year anniversary is coming so I could just ask for them both as a gift. I would really like to see these and I know there are people here who want them so yeah.

BTW anybody who is looking for things that are unavailable currently on DVD let me know... my trade list is full of preservations I did unofficially myself...

- Chris
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Originally posted by: tweaker
Definitely illegal, be careful where you're ordering from, some of these gray market dealers are sheisters. Do a little research before you order. TVDVDPlanet (and all of its pseudonyms) is one of the biggest of the bad guys.


Some of those bootlegs are terribly done too. My friend bought the entire series of Star Trek The Next Generation off of ebay, he knew they were bootlegs because they were so expensive and they admited that they were "Asian" copies. They were direct rips of the commercial ones, only during the conversion from DVD9s to DVD5s they cut the last five minutes or so off of the last episode of each disc. So every fourth episode was missing five minutes. So yeah, watch out.

"Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape

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Well I am getting them both for free as a gift. So I will make them available to the public soon as I get them... regardless of quality