I have spent a couple of days editing part 1 of fellowship of the ring…
There have been some notable discoveries based on trying to get to the original cut of fellowship.
The theatrical and extended versions of the shire and concerning hobbits do and will gel together perfectly but there is one shot missing of riding through town green dragon. Bilbo looking for the ring is moved to when gandalf arrives at bag end before he knocks at the door. There is some cuts to the footage from the EE but it works much better and fixes all shakey continuity of the sequence.
Whilst doing some re-arrangement there have been 3 instances of missing dissolve transitions. Essentially if shots are moved from where they were originally intended then the disdolve efffect may no longer work or make no sense but also leave shots with fast camera / or static shots held for a while longer than needed or movements for no reason.
The first was given by PJ the envelope with the ring pushes through to the map (Minas Tirith)
The second is an extra added shot of Sauron wearing the ring from prologue when looking the scroll of the ring inscription at minas tirith “a story only fire can tell” the shot sauron wraring the ring is disdlved through from the svroll and then out to green dragon.
The third missing dissolve was frodo holding the ring after hiding from the black riders “what was that?” This disdolves through to Saruman inside Orthanc speaking to Gandalf so we dissolve through the ring complementing the camera zoom up to Saruman in his study.
Found some more missing disdolves on gandalf explaining torture of Gollum to still shot of Baradur
Aragorn singing about beren and luthien dissolves through moon to Arwen and back through moon to Aragorn “who is she?” Positioning of moon is uncanny how it works so well. Later on “do you remember when we first met?”
BTW the shot from TTT of lightning in the sky definitely does not go at weathertop.
Anyway i’m nearly done with the first half of FOTR and will post some clips. Thinking of making a YT channel dedicated to LOTR missing and alternate material.
So I hope you find this interesting…