satanika

Surprise news!
If you know how to USE the NET, a special new version of this restoration can be found there. Look for e.g. uproar. I cannot distribute this in any other way, sorry. I don’t even know what people are using these days. You are of course welcome to share amongst yourselves.

Uproar.In.Heaven.Fan.Restoration.v2.0
Video: 708x532 (4:3) x264
Audio: Mandarin AC3, English narration AC3, Danish narration AC3 (unchanged from v1)
Subtitles: English, English (unchanged from v1)

This is a barebones release with only new video.

The video features many, many changes and improvements over the first release. It is not perfect though. A couple of handfuls of frames are still scheduled to be fixed, and one scene in particular remains in low/bad quality. This scene will be extremely time consuming to fix, so I thought I would release this now, as I don’t know when I could have everything done to my liking.

Enjoy.

Still looking for someone to capture video from French SECAM VHS tapes.

The difference is amazing.

Looks like there's a Czech/Slovak dvd as well?

Aladinova kouzelna lampa

There's this though it's probably not 100% accurate. Has settings to decode/encode type A/A mod/B/uhx I/uhx II. There's a demo so you could see if it's beneficial to the sound. Does the recording have the 'warble tone' for calibration?

Interested parties can PM me and I will try to fill your Russian telecine needs.

Oh, I understood Doctor M's post to be about Roger Rabbit. Never mind then, yes I've heard the story about The Rescuers.

Leonardo said:

satanika said:

Doctor M said:

Word is, those 'censored' frames were inserted by a disgruntled employee and not added intentionally to the film.

On a more serious note where did you hear this, and how would he have managed it? Was he the animator for those shots? Well, *someone* added them intentionally.. :3

 From what I've read online, the topless model was inserted probably during post-production. But prints from the original run might not have been affected:

from IMDB.com

I met a film collector who had access to an original release print from 1977 and we went through it frame by frame. The images did not appear in the window, so it seems that a different print was used for the video release in question tann the actual theatrical release.

Then there's this excerpt from an interview that came out when Disney made Tarzan

Thomas Schumacher, Disney's president of animation, explained the reason for the company's caution.

"We had that huge thing with The Rescuers," he says. "A cameraman inserted a tiny two-frame photograph of a topless woman. It was meant as a private joke between him and his friends. Then along comes video and laser discs, and someone out there found it, so we have to be very careful."

You've never seen The Sound of Music?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy9_lfjQopU

_,,,^..^,,,_ said:

Farewell, so long, goodbye, adieu

 "So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, adieu" is how the song goes :)

RU.08 said:

Here's a quick compare of a shot that was changed slightly for the bluray. More endless tinkering from Lucas.

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/133266

Resized hdtv pic for easier comparison - http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/133303

Yes, there seems to be added reflections in the windows for the blu. What is that shadow near the bottom middle window post in the hdtv? Doesn't seem to be on the blu.

Doctor M said:

I do want to ask.  Without freeze framing, does anyone really see these things while watching the film?

Watching the movie without Betty Boop flashing her boobs at me completely ruins the experience for me. The movie really doesn't work without this crucial moment.

Doctor M said:

Word is, those 'censored' frames were inserted by a disgruntled employee and not added intentionally to the film.

On a more serious note where did you hear this, and how would he have managed it? Was he the animator for those shots? Well, *someone* added them intentionally.. :3

All the best, poita!

team_negative1 said:

For those that have recently joined, or have not followed our advances.

 I.. I wasn't ignoring your advances, I just didn't realize... *blush*

;)

Wow. Thanks for all your work poita.

It's not the same movie.

Everything is recut, recomposited, recolored, backgrounds repainted, some scenes re-animated in cheap 'flash' looking animation for 3d effect, completely rescored and redubbed.

It might look the same at a glance but not a single frame is identical.

I had to look that up. That phrase is indeed from an original 1977 review and it's online here.

No, I need to get them capped. 1 Monkey King VHS and 1 Nezha VHS, both are unique versions, both are French PAL SECAM.

Time to revive this thread a bit..?

To the best of my knowledge Uproar in Heaven will enter the public domain 1st Jan. 2016 at the latest:

Copyright Law of the People’s Republic of China

Chapter II, Section 3

Art. 21

In respect of a cinematographic work, a work created by a process analogous to cinematography or a photographic work, the term of protection [...] shall be fifty years, expiring on December 31 of the fiftieth year after the first publication of such work[...].

Yes, I've still been working on and off (more off unfortunately) on the v2 restoration. As of now only a dozen or so shots remain, but these are the most time consuming and require MAJOR work (mostly rotoscoping).

The v2 will be the final version, there really isn't much more that can be gained from these sources. For a better version a 16 or 35mm print would need to come along.

With a bit of luck the v2 could be ready for new years..

A fresh pair of eyes (English or Chinese) for the subtitles would still be appreciated.

Also still looking for a way to capture two French PAL SECAM VHS tapes (Note: without this the French dub CANNOT be included).

Nocturnaloner said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

If they're going to bring in another planet-destroying superweapon, then it should be scaled down, something relatively small and maneuverable -- a rocket with a cannon strapped to it, you could say --  not another moon-sized space station.

 Pretty much exactly what I was thinking.  I'd rather it be a space gun than another Death Star.

 Like The Tarkin?

Maybe you could post some of the frames above in their straight-from-dvd state for easier comparison? (I have the German dvd which should be the same transfer, but it has some slight picture differences it would seem.)

Because there is no pulldown (well usually) on PAL DVDs, it's just 24 fps played back at 25 fps (sped up) - assumefps just slows it down again.

NTSC pulldown actually inserts new fields/frames which tfm/tdecimate identifies/removes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-two_pull_down

Looking good, maybe slightly oversharpened? I seem to see more ringing than on the dvd.
Which upscaling algorithm did you use?

Sign up not required :)

I use imgur.com generally, just upload, click insert/edit image when posting and paste the image link

Yes, I don't see any ghosting either. I've never looked that closely at Snow White, and still don't know exactly how it could happen. Some kind of double exposure?

Did you look at that frame above? It's around the musical sequence in the beginning.

The Russian DVD appears to be the same transfer as the German DVD but seems to have gone through an analog step? And has some temporal chroma artifacts.