logo Sign In

The Star Wars Holiday Special: The Definitive Release (Help Needed) (WIP) — Page 4

Author
Time
 (Edited)

By the way this is still happening, I just needed to take a break, last week I started to continue my work.

Author
Time

Hello, there has been a lot going on in my personal life but I am finally back here to finish this project. I will have a full update on my progress in a day or 2.

Author
Time

I’m curious, have you started work on the Wookiee subtitles yet?

Author
Time

pittdawg70 said:

I’m curious, have you started work on the Wookiee subtitles yet?

I was just curious which direction it’d go: whether they’d subtitle what the Wookiees were supposedly saying, or whether they’d subtitle everyone else into Wookiee howls. I wouldn’t have been disappointed by either.

Project Threepio (Star Wars OOT subtitles)

Author
Time

THAT is neat!

I’m afraid I don’t understand anything but the names, but it all sounds so natural. Well done!

“Before the Dark Times. Before the Prequels.”

Author
Time
 (Edited)

For the Mandalorian WEB-DLs head on over to Rutracker, you will only need to create an account and bypass a bit of Russian text. The amount of film content on this site is staggering. With years of accumulation.

Author
Time

Just popping in here to encourage the project, and I thought I’d mention a couple of things: the Swedish version and the French version of the Holiday Special are both edits, but different edits. They are both shorter than the original. So if you plan to have audio tracks of those two versions, you will need have video playback match the shorter edits.

–SKot

Projects:
Return Of The Ewok and Other Short Films (with OCPmovie) [COMPLETED]
Preserving the…cringe…Star Wars Holiday Special [COMPLETED]
The Star Wars TV Commercials Project [DORMANT]
Felix the Cat 1919-1930 early film shorts preservation [ONGOING]
Lights Out! (lost TV anthology shows) [ONGOING]
Iznogoud (1995 animated series) English audio preservation [ONGOING]

Author
Time

Have you seen any of the content from A Disturbance in the Force?

Author
Time

so OP hasn’t been around in two years, but I want to pick up this mantle, at least in part, to compile all of the available versions of the holiday special out there for posterity. there are a few versions I have “missing” at the moment that I’ve been trying and failing to track down for some time, and I’m hoping that maybe someone here can point in the right direction.

what I currently have:
Angrysun - KCCI
Angrysun - KCMO
WBBM - from Fuzzymemories.tv
Edited WCBS (without commercials/news promo, altered end credits)
WCBS with Commercials
WMAR (in very low quality)
Zion Hybrid v2
WHIO v2
French Edit
EditDroid
BluRay ISO - EditDroid upscale
Gormaanda Hybrid v2

what I don’t have/am seeking information on:
KIRO - Seattle
KMGH - Denver
KNXT - LA
WBNS - Columbus
WCAU - Philadelphia
WMAR - Higher quality version
Australia - Network Ten/ATV-10
Sweden - Complete version (I’ve seen the two-parter on youtube, but based on my research I’m unclear if its ever been put out in full or if that’s all that exists)
Broadcast Master - I know Editdroid is supposedly from a master tape, but I’ve yet to find the version with the Vidtronics title card in the wild

Not sure which of these exist in full/for public release. Just trying to complete an archive for the sake of future preservation efforts. Any information/guidance would be super helpful! Thanks!