http://www.dvdcompare.net/comparisons/film.php?fid=4219
"R2 Italy - (CVC (Cine Video Corp.) - Remastered) - (Italy - remastered) - 170 min (PAL). The Italian DVD is an extended version of the movie. Running time is 170:00 min - PAL ("standard versions" used in the other countries varies between 155 to 165 min. Paramount SE is 158:25 min - PAL). The principal difference is the opening sequence, which is longer (look at Jack Elem´s game with the fly), and the closing is also longer (the panoramic shoot is complete before the titles "C'era Una Volta Il West" appear). Another scene, which is missing from all European cuts, is in this one: After the station scene, Harmonica holds his arm because of the terrible pain in it, and returns on his horse."
Might not be a tough edit - you'd need to track down the Italian DVD and the UK one and do it in PAL, not sure about in Italy but here in the UK you can get the 2xDVD set for like £6, it's really cheap.
A few other preservation things I'd love to see:
Downtown - the MTV animation from 1998, loved that show but every episode I download is horrible quality - or is covered with 1/3 of the screen with foreign subtitles, be great to have a DVD of good quality versions.
Aeon Flux - Whole series and orig shorts on DVD in decent quality
lots of David Lynch releases:
Twin Peaks Season 2: I have the LD set, but wish I had decent transfers I could take round to other people's houses and watch and not just sit on my own, since I'm the only person in Scotland with a LD player it seems. I know it's meant to be coming out within a year, but well... Nothing is definite.
Industrial Symphony - A LD only Lynch release
Hotel Room - again think this was a LD release
On The Air - another Lynch TV show never made it to DVD but was a LD/VHS release
Mullholland Drive TV Pilot - the orig hour long TV Pilot version of Mulholland Drive, would love to see this in any format but a nice DVD transfer from a low gen bootleg would be ideal
I was wondering, I heard a rumour someone here had picked up a top of the range LD player and was re-transferring the Star Wars LD and doing extensive colour correction. Is this true, and is this person doing other preservation projects? Some amazing LD out there that could really do with being transferred well.