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Help Wanted: Preserving trailer shots not in the movies

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Every movie inevitably has shots, even whole scenes, get cut from it despite being shown in the trailers. However, aside from Rogue One, I haven’t seen anybody try to assemble a series of unused shots from a particular movie into one place. That’s why I’m creating this thread.

If anyone wants to post unused shots they found, compare & contrast alternate takes, or restore extended scenes using trailer footage, this is the place (unless a thread like this already exists, in which case please tell me so I can move there).

To kick things off, here’s a compilation of everything I’ve managed to assemble from Rise of Skywalker trailers : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LK69xv_ZYCA

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There’s an unused foreground shot of the Wampa’s huge paw, as it approaches hanging Luke, in one of the EMPIRE trailers. It’s long enough to be of use for an extended edit.

I recently spent a week collecting all the STAR WARS ORIGINAL TRILOGY deleted scenes / outtakes & bloopers in one 2 + hours video compilation. Scouring my DVD and Blu-ray collection - as well as the Internet for the Rinzler Ebook material - and this place, was fun.

The quality isn’t very good due to the various sources and frame rates. I’ll burn it to disc and keep it as ‘bonus materials’, alongside my upscaled and colour graded 16:9 GOUT DVDs.

The two 40th Anniversary EMPIRE videos came in very handy. Thanks, DISNEY.

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That sounds like a lovely watch 😋👍

Do still enjoy Deleted Magic, Building Empire, Returning To Jedi etc and now even more material available.

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gary1 said:

That sounds like a lovely watch 😋👍

Do still enjoy Deleted Magic, Building Empire, Returning To Jedi etc and now even more material available.

So do I. All the above material was also used in my compilation video - as well as the edit droid JEDI outtakes.

I wanted to see everything in chronological order - and in one place.

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Slavicuss said:

gary1 said:

That sounds like a lovely watch 😋👍

Do still enjoy Deleted Magic, Building Empire, Returning To Jedi etc and now even more material available.

So do I. All the above material was also used in my compilation video - as well as the edit droid JEDI outtakes.

I wanted to see everything in chronological order - and in one place.

I’d love to see all available bloopers in chronological order. Would it be possible to cut only bloopers and share those? 😃 Complete chronological bloopers without any added cantina music etc. are something I’ve wanted to do if I only had the time, skills and access to everything. Even the compilation videos as they are would be great, I’d say it shouldn’t be too hard to edit them.

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Isn’t there an alternate take of Obi Wan Kenobi in a Revenge of the Sith trailer, an outtake from Star Wars 77.

And there is also an alternate angle of Vader leaving his shuttle arriving at the death star in the revenge of the jedi teaser. Or Luke’s blue lightsaber from revenge of the jedi teaser, or that frame from the deleted sandstorm sequence.

Threepio taking the warning sign off the door about the Wampas is also in a trailer for Empire Strikes Back.

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JadedSkywalker said:

Isn’t there an alternate take of Obi Wan Kenobi in a Revenge of the Sith trailer, an outtake from Star Wars 77.

And there is also an alternate angle of Vader leaving his shuttle arriving at the death star in the revenge of the jedi teaser. Or Luke’s blue lightsaber from revenge of the jedi teaser, or that frame from the deleted sandstorm sequence.

Threepio taking the warning sign off the door about the Wampas is also in a trailer for Empire Strikes Back.

…and much,much more…

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Love the TROS vid! Has HAL seen it yet? It might come in handy for Ascendant V3. The pacing is so quick and disjointed in the official release that it needs as much care as it can get! 😆

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Ed Slushie said:

Every movie inevitably has shots, even whole scenes, get cut from it despite being shown in the trailers. However, aside from Rogue One, I haven’t seen anybody try to assemble a series of unused shots from a particular movie into one place. That’s why I’m creating this thread.

If anyone wants to post unused shots they found, compare & contrast alternate takes, or restore extended scenes using trailer footage, this is the place (unless a thread like this already exists, in which case please tell me so I can move there).

To kick things off, here’s a compilation of everything I’ve managed to assemble from Rise of Skywalker trailers : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LK69xv_ZYCA

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FWIW, I will relatively soonish have the following Star Wars trailers in modern, high quality 6.5K scans. All are U.S. versions. I don’t know what parts of them, if any, are unique to the trailers, but if you know…

Star Wars (teaser, flat/open matte, with a great deal of original color!)
Return Of The Jedi SE (main?, scope)
The Phantom Menace ‘A’ (teaser, scope)
The Phantom Menace ‘B’ (main, scope)
The Phantom Menace ‘D’ (3D re-release main, scope)
Attack Of The Clones “Black Eyes” ‘A’ (teaser, scope)
Attack Of The Clones “Black Eyes” ‘B’ (main, scope)
Revenge Of The Sith #1 (teaser?)
Revenge Of The Sith #2 (main?)
Revenge Of The Sith w/Hitchhikers (?)
Revenge Of The Sith “Sand Dog” w/The Incredibles (?)

Also working on AOTC feature which has some footage never released in any home or TV version.

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Oh the Revenge of the Sith trailer looks like it has unused shots of R2 and 3P0 on the Tantive… I will look at that a bit later, could be very important to properly oust the duplicated footage.

Thanks for the info.

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I actually made a post asking if any HD movie trailers existed for OG movies because I noticed some unused scenes. I have like 12 or more shots mostly from ROJ and Empire that I have upscaled/color-corrected already. I just have to remove the scratches. I’d send some sample photos but I don’t know how on this website.

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Fruit672 said:

I actually made a post asking if any HD movie trailers existed for OG movies because I noticed some unused scenes. I have like 12 or more shots mostly from ROJ and Empire that I have upscaled/color-corrected already. I just have to remove the scratches. I’d send some sample photos but I don’t know how on this website.

You need to put this ![]
Then straight after it (the URL for the image in brackets)

Or simply put clickable view links of images rather than embeded like above.