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#374323
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Info: Pearl and Dean, Coming Attractions, theatrical Dolby Stereo logos...
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I made this for a project I was just working on, and thought I'd add it up here to go with the other one for other people to use.


Evil Dead 70's BBFC 'X' Certificate Title Card


This is a reproduction of the BBFC certification title card see in UK cinemas through the 1970's and onto the early 1980's. All the text & logos have been made & assembled by me, taken from an original BBFC plate (not for Evil Dead though)

The image is (1801px by 973px) @ 72dpi and uncropped is in a 1.85:1 aspect ratio. The film title font is 'Georgia Bold' @ 51px in white, with a slight character stetch. Only the 'X' rated logo is included. The file is in XCF gimp format.



The image shown here is a quick example of what can be done, I flattened the image, added a 2.5px 'Gaussian blur', then applied a grain filter to give the final image.

 

http://www.mediafire.com/file/mzzj4t13yn2/Evil.Dead.BBFC.'X'.Certificate.Title.Card-EvilDeadChainsaws.zip

This ZIP file will not stay up forever without people semi-regularly downloading it, so if it's down, please let me know.

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#372017
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Info: Pearl and Dean, Coming Attractions, theatrical Dolby Stereo logos...
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One small issue, very anal and probably not even accurate - isn't the film title normally justified to the left on ratings cards?

Yes & No. As I said above, "the card went through a number of design changes in the 90's..." The left aligned (re-designed) card came after this one.



I do have a HQ raw scan of this card but haven't ever needed it so it isn't properly formatted as per the older card in my last post.

 

Just out of interest, what's the font used on the 'Only for persons...' part? That would need editing if other certificates were used (and that text layer seems to be rasterised).

That font (in Gimp at least) is white (#ffffff) 'Times New Roman' regular at 69px, and -0.2px character spacing. It would likely be the same in photoshop.

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#371892
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Info: Pearl and Dean, Coming Attractions, theatrical Dolby Stereo logos...
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Just spotted this thread, so I though I'd add this in to help people out with their various projects. I made this some time back for a pet project I was working on.

 

Evil Dead BBFC Certification Title Card

This is a reproduction of the BBFC certification title card as seen among a vast list of UK cinema & home video released titles from the early 1980's into the 1990's. All the text & logos have been made & assembled by me, except for the signatures, which were scanned from an original BBFC plate a friend had available at his job (not for Evil Dead though)

The image is 300dpi and uncropped is in a 2.35:1 aspect ratio. when cropped it's the following sizes;

2.35:1 (3434px by 1437px)
1.85:1 (2554px by 1437px)
1.33:1 (1916px by 1437px)

You can edit the film title text to suit. It also includes the '15' as well as the '18' logo and cropping guides for use in either 2.35:1, 1.85:1 or 1.33:1 aspect ratio projects. You'll need Adobe Photoshop CS2 or later to open the PSD file, or it can be used in Adobe Première for a fake BBFC certification sequence, or GIMP to open the XCF version.

http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/3619/bbfccard.jpg

The image shown here is a quick example of what can be done, I cropped the 2.35:1 frame down to 1.33:1 using the cropping guides, flattened the image, adding a 1.5px 'Gaussian blur', then applying a grain filter to give the final image.

Just on a technical note; The card has George Lascelles's & James Ferman's signatures, so if anyone wants to be very factually strict about using this in any projects, it would only fit for things dated between 1985 to 1997. Ferman was director from 1975 - 1999 and Lascelles chairman from 1985 to 1997, giving a window of 1985 to 1997 when they were both there. Really the card went through a number of design changes in the 90's so it would have been rare to see this design after 1995 in the cinema, and much earlier for home video, if at all.

 

http://www.mediafire.com/file/whj2gmmml2j/BBFC.Certification.Title.Card.PSD.&.XCF.(80's.&.90's)-EvilDeadChainsaws.zip

This ZIP file will not stay up forever without people semi-regularly downloading it, so if it's down, please let me know.

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#359193
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The Evil Dead Treasures Collection (Released)
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Thanks for those links. DJSmokingJam & I really had the intention of doing a separate DVD for all the youtube stuff, we have so much more which has been collected over the years and is no longer online. When we have enough material to make a release worth it, and enough time to sort it all, we'll put it together.

I'll be releasing the next DVD-ROM folder version when I have enough new material added to make a whole new released, worth doing.

The archive AOD footage would have been shot by the KNB crew. I haven't seen this on bootleg anywhere, just on the retail DVD.

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#349247
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The Evil Dead Treasures Collection (Released)
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So has any-one managed to just get the version 1.2 DVDROM folder for the ED1 Treasures collection?

Or do I have to download the 7GB ISO again from MySpleen to get it???

The version on NewsGroups was 1.1 (Or is there no point?) whats extra???

Got the myspleen torrent on hold just in case ;)

The 1.2 version contains around 500mb of additional DVD-ROM material which takes the Treasures Collection DVD up to capacity;

DVD-ROM Version 1.0 - Released 28/11/08 ( 988mb)
DVD-ROM Version 1.1 - Released 23/01/09 (1305mb)
DVD-ROM Version 1.2 - Released 09/03/09 (1791mb)

The version uploaded to spleen is the third & final release version of 'The Evil Dead - The Treasures Collection', and has only been released as a DVD DL ISO. The actual video DVD content is identical to the previous releases, it just additional DVD-ROM content. Any subsequent DVD-ROM folder releases/updates will be as a standalone disc containing just the folder.

I'd say it's worth getting as it's the last of this DVD, and the biggest.

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#347612
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The Evil Dead Treasures Collection (Released)
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Just another short update,

'The Evil Dead - The Treasures Collection' DVD v1.2 is just about complete. This disc is the third & completely final release. Once it's all finished & checked I'll get a copy over to Dark_Jedi who will be uploading a torrent version. This will likely be online towards the end of next week, but that would be up to Dark_Jedi.

Having obtained so much new evil dead related material recently, the DVD-ROM folder project has now become too big to fit with everything else on the DVD. Rather than continue to remove some of the less important/rare items, and go on trying to fit everything onto one disc, all future DVD-ROM folder releases will be as a standalone single layer DVDr DATA disc.

I had to shrink the current project folder down by 344mb to make it fit on the Treasures Collection DVD, but luckily I've only had to remove 2 big files and resize two big images to achieve that. The final folder still comes in at 1.73gb, and there's roughly 500mb of new material since the 1.1 release.

The next (standalone data disc) release of the DVD-ROM folder will have both these files back in and the two originally sized images too. That will be released once DJSmokingJam & I have built enough new material above & beyond what's on this disc.

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#347469
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The Evil Dead Treasures Collection (Released)
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kurtz said:

cheers for the tehparadox post AVP!

Any chance of evil dead I treasures going up there too if the other guys are ok with it?

 

Thanks again

 

A torrent of this should be going up in the next week. As I said above I'm just working in some new DVD-ROM material and it's this new version that will be uploaded.

Thanks for everyone's patients.

 

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#347092
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The Evil Dead Treasures Collection (Released)
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Just to update everyone; dark_jedi has kindly uploaded both discs  of 'The Evil Dead 2 Companion' DVD to spleen.

With regards to my 'The Evil Dead - The Treasures Collection' DVD, I am currently working on adding in some updates & new stuff to the DVD-ROM folder (taking it up from 1.3gb to around 1.8gb and taking the DL DVD up to capacity) and then I'll pass this new version on to also be uploaded to spleen in the next week or so.

This is just updating the contents of the DVD-ROM folder only, the video content of the DVD is identical to the previous newsgroup version.

Once this private torrent is available, it won't be long before someone uploads it to a public tracker.

The DVD-ROM folder has really become a project in it's own right. What I have assembled so far, is already too big to fit on the TC DVD along with all the existing video material, so I'm leaving out some of the less rare items. With this in mind, DJSmokingJam & I are intending to continue building this folder up until we have enough to fill a DVD, then release this on it's own at some point.

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#344489
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The Evil Dead Treasures Collection (Released)
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So what is the official titles of these ED supplement discs as it's time for me to starting labeling them?  I see both ' The Evil Dead Treasures Collection' and 'The Evil Dead II DVD Companion' being used.  Thanks.

My (SeeNoEvil's) disc is called 'The Evil Dead - The Treasures Collection' which is a preservation of strictly Evil Dead 1 material

DJSmokingJam's discs are part of is The Evil Dead II Companion, and he's putting together a release for Army Of Darkness too.

All the discs are part of the same overall Evil Dead trilogy set.

I finished watching all the DVD features last night.  I still have to go thru all the of the DVD-ROM contents, but I think See No Evil has captured more things from the internet than myself (and I'm no slouch).

I'd always be interested in new stuff, I'd like to see what you have and if theres anything I can add to the collection. PM me if your interested in trading?

The Herald Videogram LD transfer looks great.  I am glad that you've released this as my Japanese contact never got back to me on getting a transfer to me.

Cheers, I had to buy the laserdisc & get it sent over from Japan, but most of the credit goes to Moth3r for doing a first class digital transfer.

I'll hold off my comments for Within the Woods for the time being.

Why do you say this? If you have a better quality version I'd be interested in trading for it?

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#344240
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The Evil Dead Treasures Collection (Released)
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so is the Elite DVD the same as the Limited Book of The Dead DVD,as far as the print is concerned?

But I do think the Limited Book of The Dead 2 looks totally friggin amazing! great Picture.

Picture wise, the Elite 1999 DVD has the sharpest & best quality picture of all the releases (including the treasures DVD). The later Anchor Bay DVD's have a different transfer. It's matted into 16:9 (top & bottom chopped off), its far more grainy than the elite version and the contrast is much too high resulting in some bright colours like red, looking blurred. You can really see this on the title text if you compare them.

 

Well, I was able to DL the 1.1 version from the newsgroup, and in a word..it's GREAT! The menus are awesome, and most of the goodies i've never seen before. Kudos to all involved for putting this together. Also thanks for getting it uploaded for all of us to enjoy. Keep up the great work!

Yes I absolutely agree with you,fantastic DVD,very well done,I only wish I could do menu's like that,very nice.

Cheers, I spent a good few months, and alot of hard work, collecting the material together and designing the DVD menus from scratch to make this DVD a really special release.

 

Yes M I did get it,I will check it out now and let you know what I think,but from the screens you provided showing the differences,is it suppose to look so blue?

Yes, thats the identical colour grading as the original laserdisc, If you check out :

http://www.horrordvds.com/vb3forum/showthread.php?t=31511

and you can see from that thread that the cold blue grading does add to the film.

 

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#341801
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The Evil Dead Treasures Collection (Released)
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So is this available yet?

It has already been sent out in the post to 9 people, although it would be difficult for me to torrent it because of bandwidth restrictions and its 7GB big. You can message me if you want one posting out and see if we can work something out.

DVD2: Evil Dead 1 (Extended Version) 1:36:04 PAL

Interested to see if this is just the AB ultimate SE raw footage & elite DVD raw footage edited back into the standard edition, or if its something proper? most of the rest of that list is likely just lifted from existing retail DVDs though, rather than really rare bootlegged stuff. That said I wouldn't say no to a copy!

I really hope there's either some torrenting or RapidShare uploading of this set, as it looks sickeningly wonderful.

I might be able to do a rapidshare upload as I would have to only upload the 7GB once, although I wouldn't want the board to get flack for posting links, and enough people would need to download it to keep it from going offline.

If your DVDs do not contain material from the original DVDs, they can be put in the firstling fanedite section and if approved on fanedit.org for technical quality, could be moved to the fanedits section.

Technically speaking, and as far as I'm aware, none of this exact video material has been released on legal retail DVDs before (with the possible exception of some semi-bootlegged german DVDs) and that includes the contents of the DVD-ROM folder. I either sourced it from a laserdisc or VHS tapes, nothing came from retail DVDs. apart from the seperate issue of the material itself (from whatever source) having a copyright.

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#341760
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The Evil Dead Treasures Collection (Released)
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The Evil Dead - The Treasures Collection DVD Cover


DVD Main Menu


Evil Dead Chapters Menu


Release Notes Page

 

 

The Evil Dead - The Treasures Collection

Although I put this DVD release together as a specifically Evil Dead 1 standalone disc, it's still part of djsmokingjam's overall treasures collection of DVDs. It has been finished for a few weeks now and a number of copies have already been sent out to various people, but I've just got round to posting this info. The finished DVD is NTSC & 7GB big, and I've only made a dual layer version of this DVD, as quality wise its really too much to squeeze onto one single layer. For the first time this DVD release brings together & preserves some of the rarest Evil Dead treasures.

  • 'The Evil Dead' - The Japanese 1985 'Herald Videogram' laserdisc version expertly transferred to DVD.
  • A superior quality copy of the short film 'Within The Woods'.
  • 'Book Of The Dead' to 'The Evil Dead' - The version differences.
  • A 'Book Of The Dead' workprint trailer.
  • Finally A PC viewable DVD-ROM folder packed with over a gigabyte of rare Evil Dead trilogy material painstakingly collected over many years, with major contributions by a number of die hard Evil Dead fans.



'The Evil Dead' - The Japanese 1985 'Herald Videogram' laserdisc version
 
The 1985 Japanese Herald Videogram laserdisc is arguably the best transfer of Evil Dead ever made available. Two major things separate this version from every other; its colour timing, and its picture framing, although it does suffer from burnt in Japanese subtitles, but they’re fairly unobtrusive.As far as is known, Evil Dead was transferred twice in its early home viewing days. The first transfer was used on the 1985 Japanese HV laserdisc. At some point a second transfer was made and was then used on every subsequent release. The colour timing for this second transfer was much warmer in tone than the bluer & colder HV laserdisc version. This subtle change seemed to alter the whole ‘feel’ of the movie and the HV laserdisc seems much scarier because of it. Additionally there is also quite a difference in picture framing between the two versions. The second transfer seems to have been zoomed in around 10-15%, meaning the HV laserdisc version has more visual information on each side of the frame. The 1982 Palace Pictures VHS, 1995 Japanese Beam laserdisc, 1999 US Elite laserdisc, along with every DVD version all seem to use that second transfer, only differing very slightly on colour timing, brightness levels. The Evil Dead was originally composed to be shown in a matted 1.66:1 AR, but it was only ever shown in this format once for its premiere, thereafter it was screened in the standard AR of 1.37:1. A number of DVD releases have taken this and matted it to achieve a 1.85:1 AR, then marketed as the ’widescreen’ version. The HV version is shown in that full un-matted ratio, which also contains the original mono audio track, before it was re-mixed to stereo and later 5.1 surround.
 

Within The Woods
 
In order to raise initial financing for Evil Dead; Sam, Bruce & Rob along with Ellen Sandweiss, Scott Spiegel & Mary Valenti made this 31 minute short film at the Tapert family farmhouse near Marshall, Michigan. Shooting over a total of 6 days during the spring of 1979, and with a budget of $1600, it was a far bigger super8 production than any of the renaissance team had attempted previously. It combines script elements of both the first and second Evil Dead movies, but with a much tighter, and arguably more effective plotline. Anchor Bay had restored ‘Within The Woods’, for their 2002 Book Of The Dead release. The short was pulled at the last moment, although the exact reason for this was never explained. It had been speculated that they had problems with music rights, although this wasn’t the case as their version had already been re-scored with new music, especially for that release.  Last minute reluctance on Sam Raimi’s part or legal issues involving one of the actresses have also been speculated as possible reasons. This version was taken from a bootleg VHS ‘mix’ tape, Although many versions of this tape exist in higher or lower generational copies, this is the best quality version I have seen yet. Further to this, I have digitally cleaned, sharpened & brightened the picture using professional software.

 

'Book Of The Dead' to 'The Evil Dead' - The version differences

Before being re-titled for its theatrical release, The Evil Dead was called Book Of The Dead. This original version was never released to theatres or on home video, with the sole execption of a 1985 greek VHS tape. This version has 4 differences from the final release; the movie title, and alternate sunrise shot, Ash's scream resonates before the end credits, and the end credits title. The following sequence edited from that VHS tape, shows those 4 differences.

 

Book Of The Dead Trailer
 
In the spring of 1980, with principal photography; re-shoots & effects sequences completed, the renaissance team traveled from Michigan to New York, to work with editor Edna Ruth Paul. Sorting through over 100,000 feet of footage, a rough 97 minute cut was put together. Once Rob, Sam & Bruce returned back to Michigan they cut a four minute trailer narrated by John Cameron in order to raise more funding, enabling further editing work, and the final completion of the then re-titled 'The Evil Dead'. Because it was edited from the 97 rather than the 85 minute version, there are snippets of footage you’ll not see in the final movie.

 

DVD-ROM folder

I Have produced alot of Evil Dead trilogy related creative material over the last 15 years, as it had a big impression on me when I first saw them when I was 13. I decided to compile it all in one place and release it on this Evil Dead DVD, Along with some of the rarer items I have built up over the years found on random sites present & past on the internet. With the exception of the 'Misc Internet Sourced Evil Dead Stuff' folder and 'Evil Dead Rare Magazine PDFs', everything else was either entirely my own original work, or modified my me.

General Internet & Outsourced Projects/Collections
Evil Dead Rare Magazine PDFs
Evil Dead Fan Films
Evil Dead Various Photos, Pictures & Artwork
Various Offline Evil Dead Related Forums
Related YouTube Videos

My Pet Projects
BOTD Sculpt (Uncompleted) Project (2006)
BOTD (Uncompleted Evil Dead Re-Edit) Project Test Clips (2008)
Cinefantastique Cover (Writing Removed) (2008)
Evil Dead 1 Lego Plans & Stop Motion Animation (2005)
Evil Dead 2 Crew T-Shirt Logo (2008)
Evil Dead BBFC Certification Title Card (2002)
Evil Dead Credits Jazz Track (2008)
Evil Dead Palace Pictures VHS Pre-Cert - Artwork Only (2008)
Evil Dead Palace VHS Artwork Plate (2002)
Evil Dead Signed Artwork Plate (2002)
EvilDeadChainsaws.com (2002 - 2008)
From Within The Woods (1996)
Sam Raimi Shorts DVD Covers (2007)
School Projects (1996)
Scripts & Text Files (2006)
Within The Woods Score (Uncompleted) (2002 - 2008)#

 

    Project Title: The Evil Dead - The Treasures Collection
             Imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083907/
    User Rating: 7.6/10 (34,934 votes)
         Country: USA
 Release Date: 01/01/09

   DVD Format: NTSC DVD9 (DVD+R ONLY)
             Ratio: 1.33:1
  Language(s): English
     Subtitle(s): None

 Content Title: The Evil Dead
Running Time: 01:25:35
Video Format: MPEG-2 / 720x480 / NTSC / 1.33:1
Audio Format: AC3 / 1ch / 48kHz / 96k
         Source: Retail Japanese Laserdisc

 Content Title: Within The Woods
Running Time: 00:30:44
Video Format: MPEG-2 / 720x480 / NTSC / 1.33:1
Audio Format: AC3 / 2ch / 48kHz / 256k
         Source: Bootleg VHS Tape

 Content Title: Book Of The Dead Differences Compilation
Running Time: 00:04:28
Video Format: MPEG-2 / 720x480 / NTSC / 1.33:1
Audio Format: AC3 / 2ch / 48kHz / 192k
         Source: Retail Greek VHS Tape

 Content Title: Book Of The Dead Trailer
Running Time: 00:03:37
Video Format: MPEG-2 / 720x480 / NTSC / 1.33:1
Audio Format: AC3 / 2ch / 48kHz / 256k
         Source: Bootleg VHS Tape

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#333266
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Untitled Bruce Campbell Project (* unfinished project - a ton of info & ideas *)
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Just thought I'd add a new post up here to see if anyone got any further with tracing
the first dub tape of the early super8 short films?

I posted my trades list above, but heres a revised list. it can all be available to this
project or other projects too. This list doesn't include retail stuff like DVDs & VHS
that can be bought in shops, just mainly stuff thats not been officially released.

Everything listed below ranges from high VHS quality, down to almost unwatchable
VHS quality. They have been sourced from a wide variety of DVDs & VCDs over the
years, so there is big a variation in formats & file specs. To overcome this (and so I
don't have to re-encode everthing loosing more quality) they're all written as direct
copy MPEGs data files from the source files onto 4.5GB DVD-Rs.

 


Quality Guide

(•    ) Almost unwatchable VHS quality
(••   ) Poor quality VHS
(•••  ) Standard quality VHS
(•••• ) Very high VHS or poor DVD quality
(•••••) Standard DVD quality or super8 to DVD telecine

 


Evil Dead Collection DVD 1

Attack Of The Helping Hand! (00:06:02) (•••  )
(AC3 - 2ch - 48kHz - 192k) (MPEG-2 - 720x576 - PAL 4x3) (DVD-MPEG)

Cleveland Smith Bounty Hunter (00:09:14) (•••• )
(MPEG-1 - 2ch - 44100kHz - 224k) (MPEG-1 - 352x288 - PAL 4x3) (VCD-MPEG)

Clockwork (00:06:57) (•••• )
(MPEG-1 - 2ch - 44kHz - 224k) (MPEG-1 - 352x288 - PAL 4x3) (VCD-MPEG)

It's Murder (01:07:17) (•••• )
(MPEG-1 - 2ch - 44kHz - 224k) (MPEG-1 - 352x288 - PAL 4x3) (VCD-MPEG)

Oedipus Rex (00:06:16) (•••• )
(AC3 - 2ch - 48kHz - 224k) (MPEG-2 - 720x576 - PAL 4x3) (DVD-MPEG)

Six Months To Live (00:13:46) (•    )
(AC3 - 2ch - 48kHz - 256k) (MPEG-2 - 704x480 - NTSC 4x3) (DVD-MPEG)

Stryker's War (00:48:08) (••   )
(MPEG-1 - 2ch - 44kHz - 224k) (MPEG-1 - 352x240 - NTSC 4x3) (VCD-MPEG)

The Blind Waiter (00:17:17) (•••••)
(AC3 - 2ch - 48kHz - 224k) (MPEG-2 - 720x576 - PAL 4x3) (DVD-MPEG)

The Sappy Sap (00:04:26) (•••  )
(AC3 - 2ch - 48kHz - 256k) (MPEG-2 - 352x480 - NTSC 4x3) (DVD-MPEG)

Torro, Torro, Torro! (00:06:48) (•••• )
(AC3 - 2ch - 48kHz - 192k) (MPEG-2 - 720x576 - PAL 4x3) (DVD-MPEG)

Within The Woods (00:30:29) (••   )
(AC3 - 2ch - 48kHz - 256k) (MPEG-2 - 352x480 - NTSC 4x3) (DVD-MPEG)

 

Evil Dead Collection DVD 2

Detroit TV Spot On Renaissance Pictures (00:03:41) (•    )
(MPEG-1 - 2ch - 44kHz - 224k) (MPEG-1 - 352x240 - NTSC 4x3) (DVD-MPEG)

Evil Dead 2 Greg Nicotero's B.T.S. Camcorder Footage (01:12:00) (•••  )
(AC3 - 2ch - 48kHz - 384k) (MPEG-2 - 704x480 - NTSC 4x3) (DVD-MPEG)

Palace Pictures Ident (00:00:14) (•••  )
(AC3 - 2ch - 48kHz - 192k) (MPEG-2 - 720x480 - NTSC 4x3) (DVD-MPEG)

Treasures From The Cutting Room Floor (01:01:18) (•••••)
(AC3 - 2ch - 48kHz - 192k) (MPEG-2 - 720x480 - NTSC 4x3) (DVD-MPEG)

 

Evil Dead Collection DVD 3

In Review - Sam Raimi 1986 TV Interview (00:24:29) (•••  )
(AC3 - 2ch - 48kHz - 256k) (MPEG-2 - 704x480 - NTSC 4x3) (DVD-MPEG)

Nightcrew B.T.S. Camcorder Footage (00:06:31) (•••  )
(AC3 - 2ch - 48kHz - 256k) (MPEG-2 - 704x480 - NTSC 4x3) (DVD-MPEG)

Screen Scaries - Sam Raimi Interview (00:09:38) (•••••)
(AC3 - 2ch - 48kHz - 256k) (MPEG-2 - 720x576 - PAL 4x3) (DVD-MPEG)

The Incredibly Strange Film Show (00:37:38) (•••• )
(MPEG - 2ch - 48kHz - 384k) (MPEG-2 - 720x576 - PAL 4x3) (DVD-MPEG)

 

Evil Dead Collection DVD 4

Bruce Campbell French Interview (00:23:41) (•••••)
(AC3 - 2ch - 48kHz - 192k) (MPEG-2 - 720x576 - PAL 4x3) (DVD-MPEG)

Evil Dead 2 - Behind The Screams (00:27:43) (•••• )
(MPEG-1 - 2ch - 48kHz - 192k) (MPEG-2 - 720x480 - NTSC 4x3) (DVD-MPEG)

Evil Dead 2 Workprint (00:37:11) (••   )
(AC3 - 2ch - 48kHz - 256k) (MPEG-2 - 704x480 - NTSC 4x3) (DVD-MPEG)

 

Evil Dead Collection DVD 5

Book Of The Dead (01:26:04) (•••  )
(AC3 - 2ch - 48kHz - 256k) (MPEG-2 - 704x576 - PAL 4x3) (DVD-MPEG)

Book Of The Dead Differences Compilation (00:04:28) (•••  )
(AC3 - 2ch - 48kHz - 192k) (MPEG-2 - 720x480 - NTSC 4x3) (DVD-MPEG)

Book Of The Dead Trailer (00:03:37) (••   )
(AC3 - 2ch - 48kHz - 256k) (MPEG-2 - 720x480 - NTSC 4x3) (DVD-MPEG)

Crimewave Trailer (00:02:18) (•••• )
(AC3 - 2ch - 48kHz - 384k) (MPEG-2 - 720x576 - PAL 4x3) (DVD-MPEG)

Debil Dead (00:03:08) (•••••)
(AC3 - 2ch - 48kHz - 192k) (MPEG-2 - 720x576 - PAL 4x3) (DVD-MPEG)

Evil Dead 2 Trailer (00:01:32) (•••  )
(MPEG-1 - 2ch - 44100kHz - 224k) (MPEG-1 - 352x288 - PAL 4x3) (VCD-MPEG)

Nightcrew Trailer (00:04:35) (•••  )
(MPEG-1 - 2ch - 44100kHz - 224k) (MPEG-1 - 352x288 - PAL 4x3) (VCD-MPEG)

Thou Shall Not Kill, Except... Trailer (00:02:03) (••   )
(AC3 - 2ch - 48kHz - 256k) (MPEG-2 - 352x480 - NTSC 4x3) (DVD-MPEG)

WNIC TV Ad (00:00:30) (••   )
(AC3 - 2ch - 48kHz - 256k) (MPEG-2 - 352x480 - NTSC 4x3) (DVD-MPEG)

XYZ Murders Trailer (00:02:14)  (•••  )
(AC3 - 2ch - 48kHz - 256k) (MPEG-2 - 352x480 - NTSC 4x3) (DVD-MPEG)

 

If anyone wants to do a 1:1 trade contact me, but I'd only want to swap for things I
don't already have or better quality versions of things I do have.

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#318910
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The Evil Dead Treasures Collection (Released)
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I have already posted on the content of the workprint version here:

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Untitled-Bruce-Campbell-Project/post/297227/#post297227

No the 'Chop Top' sequence isn't in the workprint, but some of it is covered in 'the gore the merrier' featurette on the ED2 AB DVD or 'behind the screams' featurette on the ED2 laserdisc
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#313347
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Book Of The Dead Preservation (* unfinished project *)
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Just to stick a post up on this thread as its been dead for a while now, I'm looking at a slightly different version of this project. I know the dawn of the dead project fell by the wayside but I don't think I knew what I was letting myself in for & how stupidly difficult it would be when I started it.

Since I got the Evil Dead Ultimate Edition DVD, I've been giving thought to editing some of the 60mins of raw footage from this DVD & the 20mins of raw footage on the eariler elite DVD back into the film. Much of the new stuff is covered in the script, but was edited out later. I would also re-title the film to book of the dead. This project would have to be done in 16:9 as all the raw extra footage on the UE DVD only in 16:9.

I'm doing some tests at the moment seeing if I can match the evil dead title font/style to change it convicingly to book of the dead. Rather than firmly commit myself to this project I'll have a mess around with some of the footage and make a later post as to how I get on.
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#310575
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Untitled Bruce Campbell Project (* unfinished project - a ton of info & ideas *)
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Just so everyone is on the same track - all of the VCD shorts and the WITW DVD (shown in the above screenshots) came from exactly the same VHS tape, which was a copy leaked by Scott Spiegel's assistant.


charliesheen, I assumed there would be afew generations between the VCD shorts and the WTW DVD as the quality is so much lower on WTW, is that not the case? are you saying both the VCDs and the DVD both shown above came from the same tape at the same time? or do you mean that physically they came from the same source tape at some point down the line but the VCD shorts were captured from an earlier generation copy of that tape than WTW?

In theory the tape has to be out there somewhere, I know the VCD shorts posted above are all PAL 25fps, which would be UK/europe as opposed to the USA? just a wild guess but could have something to do with johnathan ross & the 'The Incredibly Strange Film Show' as johnathan & sam seemed quite friendly (they even made an ED2 UK trailer together) maybe he or one of his crew got PAL versions of all the shorts from one of the team?
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#310571
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Untitled Bruce Campbell Project (* unfinished project - a ton of info & ideas *)
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Here are some screenshots from each of the decent quality VCD shorts I have in my list:

http://www.evildeadchainsaws.com/website/deadites/vcd_screens_attack_of_the_helping_hand.jpg
Attack Of The Helping Hand!


http://www.evildeadchainsaws.com/website/deadites/vcd_screens_clockwork.jpg
Clockwork


http://www.evildeadchainsaws.com/website/deadites/vcd_screens_its_murder.jpg
It's Murder!


http://www.evildeadchainsaws.com/website/deadites/vcd_screens_cleveland_smith_bounty_hunter.jpg
Cleveland Smith Bounty Hunter


http://www.evildeadchainsaws.com/website/deadites/vcd_screens_torro_torro_torro.jpg
Torro, Torro, Torro!


If you compare these to the best quality version of WTW I have (I have 3 versions) This screen is taken from the Bill Piper DVD mentioned previously

http://www.evildeadchainsaws.com/website/deadites/vcd_screens_within_the_woods.jpg

It would seem very logical that there would be a much better quality version of WTW than this?
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#310501
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Untitled Bruce Campbell Project (* unfinished project - a ton of info & ideas *)
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Yeh, Bill Piper got a dub of the tape from the guy I'm tracking down - he encoded everything (bar one short which had very poor video to the point of it being just audio) to VCD quality way back in maybe 2000 or 2001. He then redid Within The Woods to SVCD, and then again to DVD later - I never got round to getting the DVD copy from him. Last contact I had with him he mentioned not having the tape he used any more.


Yes, when i contacted bill about 6 months ago, he said he didn't have the original VHS tape as he'd traded it away. the only thing he had was the WTW DVD version which was just that with the BOTD trailer & gallery on a DVD-R. thats what i have a copy of. It was worth getting just to see the BOTD trailer which i havent seen anywhere else.

Cheers, ReverendBeastly. I'll drop you over an email regarding trades!
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#310464
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Untitled Bruce Campbell Project (* unfinished project - a ton of info & ideas *)
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Haven't posted on this thread in a while, and saw there was afew new posts, so I thought I'd post my revised shorts/rare ED stuff list after a good few months of trading with various people. On the advice of Molto I got a copy of WTW from Bill Piper/skinny puppy, this version is marginally better than the standard VHS>DVD version, probably one generation up. This DVD also has an early trailer for evil dead under the title book of the dead.

Everything listed below ranges from high VHS quality, down to almost unwatchable VHS quality. Its all either written on properly authored bootleg DVD-R's, or just lone VCD or DVD MPEG files on CD-R's

SEE REVISED LIST FURTHER DOWN

I'm still firmly on the lookout for a better copy of WTW, I traded for a few of the shorts a while back with someone who had them as PAL VCDs, I didn't get WTW with that trade, but the quality of those was a real improvement over the VHS>DVD version everyone has. if the VCD version of WTW charliesheen mentioned above is the same quality as the other VCD shorts i would jump at the chance to get a copy.

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#298636
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Dawn Of The Dead Ultimate Edition Volume 2-UPDATE Discs 1-4 (Released)
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Just thought I'd better put in a new post, at the last one was about 4 months ago.
The last work i did on the DOTD composite edit was around the 1st of July. Around
that time I got really busy with other things and it got put to one side (that then
became quite a long way to one side!) then I had other pet projects that came &
went and I didn't come back to it.

So here we are! When I'd left it I had all the video edited and I was going through
the audio trying to make that work, I got as far as around 13mins in. The most difficult
bit so far was the section from wooley going nuts up to the start of the talk between
peter & roger after the swat guy shoots himself. In that section each of the 3 versions
has a different backing music and I was switching between them almost shot to shot.
In the end i had to rubber band out all the audio, overlay one backing track from the
score CD across the whole sequence, then rubber band back in any speech or sound
effects i could seperate out enough from their backing tracks so that you wouldn't
notice. Then using a pile of sound effects CDs i had to add in some more of the missing
sound effects, copy and paste in some sound effects and bits of background speech from
elsewhere in the audio tracks and then add ambience noise to fill it all out. I even had to
record myself making zombie noises (!) to use for the sequence when the footless and the
female zombie attack in the appartment as it was too quiet to seperate any of the existing
noises from their music backing track. After all that it still needs more work to smooth it out.

And all that after only 13 mins! having done that I think it is do-able, not an impossible task.
It'll just take a whole stack of time. At the moment its sitting on my hard drive so I can
re-start it whenever I want. I'll have a go this week, I dont mind doing short sections like
the one above with longer simpler sections inbetween but if i have to painstakingly work
though the the entire 2-1/2 hours doing that I'm not sure it won't go back off to one
side again... for a couple of months... very quickly!
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#297330
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Untitled Bruce Campbell Project (* unfinished project - a ton of info & ideas *)
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They made many many more shorts besides that (there's a full list in Bill Warren's book The Evil Dead Companion), but I'd never heard about bootlegs being available of Shemp Eats The Moon and Happy Valley Kid. The latter, in particular, is kind of legendary among Raimi/Campbell fans.


Yes, just incase anyone doesn't have the book, heres the full list of shorts:


Inspector Klutz Saves The Day (1969)
Pies And Guys (1971)
Corny Casanovas (1971)
Out West (1972)
Oedipus Rex (1972)
Supa' Bad (1973)
D-Day (1973)
Day Of Violence (1973)
Son Of Hitler (1973)
For Crimin' Out Loud (1973)
A Night In The Sanitarium (1973)
Three Smart Saps (1973)
Loose Loot (1973)
Piece Of Mind (1973)
Booby Bartenders (1974)
Three On A Couch (1974)
Three Pests In A Mess (1974)
Half-Wits' Holiday (1974)
Manhunt (1974)
Curse Of The Werewolf (1974)
All The Worlds A Stooge (1974)
No Dough Boys (1974)
The Singing Nuts (1974)
I'll Never Heil Again (1975)
The Great Bogus Monkey Pignuts Swindle (1975)
The James Hoffa Story (1975)
The James R. Hoffa Story, Part II (aka Home Sweet Homicide) (1976)
James Bombed In Here Today, Gun Tomorrow (1976)
Attack Of The Pillsbury Doughboy (1976)
Uncivil War Birds (1976)
Myster No Mystery (1976)
Topanga Pearl (1976)
Picnic (1977)
Charlie's Angels (1977)
The Kids' Film (1977)
Six Months To Live (1977)
The Happy Valley Kid (1977)
Lonely Are The Brave (aka The Drama Movie) (1977)
Civil War Part II (1977)
Final Round (1977)
Acting And Reacting (1978)
Holding It (1978)
Shemp Eats The Moon (1978)
It's Murder (1978)
William Shakespeare - The Movie (1979)
Attack Of The Helping Hand (1979)
Clockwork (1979)
Night Crew (1979)
Within The Woods (1979)
Spring Cleaning (1979)
Fish Sticks (1979)
The Blind Waiter (1980)
Stryker's War (1980)
Toro Toro Toro (1981)
Cleveland Smith Bounty Hunter (1982)
The Sappy Sap (1985)
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#297307
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Untitled Bruce Campbell Project (* unfinished project - a ton of info & ideas *)
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See No Evil, does your copy of The Sappy Sap have sound? All the other copies I've seen don't, which is pretty frustrating given it's Raimi's last proper Super 8 film, and one of his best.

No, I have 2 different copies of 'The Sappy Sap' possibly from the same or different source tapes, and neither have sound (although there is hiss/pops) All the other shorts I have do have sound, although I don't know for a fact 'The Spappy Sap' had sound in the first place?

The only 2 shorts I'm still missing (that I know of) are 'Shemp Goes To The Moon' & 'The Happy Valley Kid'. PM me if you want to trade anything.
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#297227
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Untitled Bruce Campbell Project (* unfinished project - a ton of info & ideas *)
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I know this thread has been dead for a while, but i thought I'd add in what I have just incase it interests anyone?

Most of the stuff I have has already been mentioned, Besides all the proper retail DVD's with their documentaries and what-have-you I have some other stuff of note, namely:

Sam Raimi Short Films
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Cleveland Smith Bounty Hunter
Torro, Torro, Torro!
The Blind Waiter
Attack Of The Helping Hand
The Sappy Sap
Six Months To Live
Within The Woods
Clockwork
It's Murder

All VHS quality or worse

I also have the Evil Dead 2 Workprint DVD someone else mentioned, they're right in that its only about 45 mins long and contains the first & last parts of the film but they're more or less shot for shot as they are in the finished film except for 2 short shots; one extra shot of the workshed and a shot of the piano with what looks like steam pipes coming out (although the picture quality is ok the video has alot of damage making it break up frequently), and the music is all temp mixed, it also has a TCR. Also on this disc I got some shorts (Cleveland Smith Bounty Hunter / Torro, Torro, Torro! / The Blind Waiter / Attack Of The Helping Hand / Evil Dead Trailer / The Sappy Sap / BTS intruder (night crew) footage & Raimi Interview) All poor VHS quality as before.

As someone mentioned before, yes the 'Incredibly Strange Film Show' on the retail ED DVD has been edited to omit all footage from Raimi's shorts & a 'Crimewave/XYZ Murders' clip too. Guess they couldn't clear the rights for the crimewave stuff (them also slagging the film off in the show wouldn't help none with permission, I'm guessing) but it's strange that the Raimi shorts wheren't cleared for inclusion, especially coincidental since WTW, another short, was pulled from the same DVD release. I read somewhere that the music rights issue had been solved and there was a different issue preventing inclusion involving Raimi getting funny about releasing his early works which might explain both the missing WTW & the shorts in the 'Incredibly Strange Film Show' on that DVD. If you get the VHS to DVD copy thats going round on the 'Raimi shorts' DVD, thats the unedited version.

One thing I've been on the hunt for ages is Greg Nicotero's behind the scenes camcorder footage from 'Evil Dead 2'. I think there's around 6 unedited hours or so of it. I know there are some very short clips in the 'Gore The Merrier' feturette on the AB ED2 DVD. Currently I've only been able to track down about 72 mins on a BTS compilation DVD, that DVD also features camcorder footage from 'NOTLD90' & 'Two Evil Eyes', both also shot by Nicotero. If anyone else has any more of this footage, or a better quality version of 'Within The Woods', and wants to trade, PM me!
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#291073
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Dawn Of The Dead Ultimate Edition Volume 2-UPDATE Discs 1-4 (Released)
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EDIT: You've got a typo. Second paragraph, second to last line, should be
"opening its doors" with no apostrophe.

Well... You pay for GCSE grade 'C' english, you get grade 'C' english!

That said, I've corrected it on the original.


will there be a option to have this as disc 5 in the UEv2 collection as well
as a stand alone release?


CW is working hard on his release for the UE box set. I'm quite happy to release
mine seperately with it(')s own cover & DVD menus and let his be the 5th disc. thats
what I thought I'd do originally anyway. If CW decides not to finish his then i will
rethink that if it happens.