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Hi DrGonzo! I wouldn't mind transcripts of Animating Art and parts of Behind the Ears (from the official Roger Rabbit DVD) actually .... what I'm really waiting on is converted copies of the 1969/70 Clapperboard and One Pair of Eyes docs (the latter already being transcribed). Apparently there's another called The Creative Mind too, which both Roy and Holger Leihe have mentioned. I'm not sure if this is the same as One Pair of Eyes: Dreamwalkers, as it sounds similar.
Obviously there's plenty else I could actually use help with in terms of organizing the book and doc, but I'm always hesitant to ask for these things, and I can barely think of what they'd be. I've got all those scans now from the Therhorn collection, 1000 scans of Thief material which is all split up over two or three or more scans apiece, and ought to be Photoshop-stitched together .... which I'm way too hassled to do now, but I'll have a look at it and do some of it, since I'd like to use and color this artwork for use on covers and things ...
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Ben -- Rock on Ben! You're a goddamn star. If you can get these broadcast copies of these things onto DVD, PAL or NTSC, that would bring these extras discs up to retail DVD quality, which is nice ... =) Hugely excited. If you're currently having difficulties converting from PAL BetaSP, I'm sure someone else watching this thread could help you ... just give a shoutout.
As for the early 80s doc from Thames, the copy that Simon dug up is broadcast quality as is .... so no problems there.
>> On reading through your forum...you might be interested in the opening and closing titles for "A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum", which RW also completed.
Funny the timing - as you were posting about this, I was actually watching this on DVD! The closing titles are beautiful and more animated than, say, What's New Pussycat? and Casino Royale ... probably worth including actually! I'll dupe myself a copy.
>> I also have the full "Roger Rabbit And The Secrets Of Toontown" special in its original broadcast version and in a special edit I did that incorporates material from a Disney documentary that had a section on Roger with RW explaining the tricks in the Benny The Cab scene.
Oh please - send this. Send this! I don't have this. Send this!
And any Roger stuff that's rare, I could probably get away with sneaking into this set. Maybe. Slightly off topic stuff has snuck on this set before ... like Oscar Grillo's Seaside Woman.
>> Lastly, I have an NTSC DVD dub of the pan-and-scan Raggedy Ann And Andy, which I am pretty sure came from the Columbia LaserDisc, instead of a VHS, if that also helps, but it seems you've pretty much covered that one (?).
Well, Chris has done a restoration of my crap DVDshrunk VHS dub of it. But if it's actually from laserdisc ... if you can verify that .... oh, just send it! I'd love to see it. My transfer left a few things to be desired which I'm sure Chris' restoration fixed in the most part, but you can never be too sure to check out a possibly better transfer. =)
>> BTW...as a picky editor, I thought the Miramax cut on LD has amazing print quality, as far as I remember. In fact, I remember being quite knocked out by the image quality on this release, even if it was in CLV.
I've heard that. But for clarity you can't beat the Arabian Knight DVD put out in Japan - even if the picture is blown out in places and has some film dirt.
>> What also pushed me to signing to the forums was that I may well have the 1989 Academy Awards. For most of the 1980s I had to count on friends to tape it from a cable channel for me, but as a HUGE Roger fan, I'm pretty sure this would have been one I specifically had taped or was even able to tape myself. Since I have a room full of VHS tapes - none of which are properly labelled, natch! - I'll have to search through and look at anything with "Oscars" written on it.
Dear god! Look, man, look. Man ... you could contribute so much to this project. =D
>> And...no hopes up at all here...but I MIGHT have "The Little Island" on VHS somewhere.
Don't taunt me! =D I actually spoke to the composer of this film and he said his copy came from Dick so to just ask Dick. Oh well. The early films are THE item I'm most interested in getting right now.
>>I had tons of animation stuff at one point (loads of original Walt Disney TV shows, the ENTIRE Muppet Show run including specials, etc, I know, I know...)
Heh. A man after my own heart there. My father worked for Henson, doing the old Muppets comic strip and licensing art, and I've got a pretty good Henson collection. The full Muppet Show, Jim Henson Hour (my favorite), etc.
This one goes out to Patrick ... from Holger Leihe.
The music in the opening sequence was original music
composed for the film. For years they used R.V.
Williams' " Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis".
That is actually still the music I associate with that
part of the film. It couldn't be used for copyright
reasons and so they got somebody to compose s.th.
similar. Not as good in my opinion.
Say hello to Simon. I hope he is doing well.
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So ... Patrick, send me the Tallis piece. I would be interested in seeing how it works in the film.