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Superman: The Movie - The International Salkind Cut (NON-Composite)
TomahawkJ VHS transfer and Angrysun DVD authoring
Running Time: 188 minutes (NTSC) - This alternate and VERY, VERY rare Recorded as aired NON-composite version includes all known footage. As the film and its sequels enjoyed its popularity in the early 1980’s, producers Alexander and Ilya Salkind took it upon themselves to prepare the film for its eventual television broadcast. In order to market the film to television stations around the world, the Salkinds re-edited the film with approximately 45 minutes of additional footage not released in theaters. Whereas Richard Donner had complete directorial control in editing the film for theatrical release, the Salkinds had control of the film for international distribution and television marketing, and the film was re-edited without Donner’s approval. The added footage brought the running time of the film to 188 minutes, the longest known version of the film to be assembled and shown to audiences around the world.
In addition to the many added scenes, a number of musical cues from John Williams’ original soundtrack were restored to the film, some of them not heard in the theatrical release of the film nor on the popular two-disc soundtrack album. Additional cues underscoring scenes on Krypton, the planet’s destruction, and Otis’ journey through the Metropolis subway tunnels were heard for the first time, while other cues underscoring the launch of Kal-El’s starship, Superman intercepting and hurling the missile into space, the aftershocks of the earthquake, and Superman in action, all previously heard on the original soundtrack album, were restored to the context of the film.
Two longer versions have been released since the original film ... one on ABC in 1981 at approx. 182 minutes, and the other on KCOP in Los Angeles in 1994 at approx. 188 minutes. Both contain footage and music not used in the theatrical version, including extensions of the destruction of Krypton, Smallville, Fortress of Solitude, Daily Planet, and earthquake scenes. Many people believe that KCOP was the first station that screened the 188 minute version in 1994, in fact this version was screened regularly in the 1980s on European and Australian Television, and so technically it should not be known exclusively as the KCOP cut. The Euro/Oz cut feature all the scenes on the KCOP version.
The version presented here on this fan created DVD was recorded as aired on Australian television in 1982. The quality of this transfer is fair, for a twenty three years old home recorded video tape. Sadly, the film is cut just right before Superman flashes his smile to the camera before the end credits and therefore the film is missing the last 15 seconds of the film and the last 4-5 minutes of end credits.
And to those that are not aware, this is a PAL transfer and this means that the film is being shown 4% faster than it was originally intended to be shown, the most obvious effect of this 4% speedup is that the film runs for 4% less time.
- Angrysun Release BLAX16
- 2 PAL DVDr / 1 PAL Dual Layer DVDr
- Fan Preservation
- Source: VHS recording of Australian OTA broadcast
- Fullscreen
- Custom Cover art available
Cover Sample
Full Set Sample - Covers III & IV by Coov and Cover I by Blaksvn
