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The Star Wars Holiday Special De-Campified (Released)

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THE STAR WARS HOLIDAY SPECIAL DE-CAMPIFIED

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Date Original Film Was Released: Never Officially Released

Original Runtime: Approx 97 minutes

New Runtime: Approx 50 minutes

Amount of time Cut: Approx 47 Minutes

Original Aspect Ratio: 4:3

New Aspect Ratio: 16:9

Cuts removed/added/extended:
 

REMOVED…

Removed original Credit Intro

Removed Most of the Wookie Talk

Removed Hallographic Circus Act

Removed Trade Post Scene (imperial guard takes handheld groomer)

Removed Cooking Show and Malla making Dinner

Removed Mind Evaporator Scene

Removed Jefferson Star Ship Scene

Removed Mini-Transmitter Assembly Video Scene

Removed most of Tatooine Bar Scene

Removed Princess Lea Singing

Removed small scenes and bits here and there (to insignificant to even mention)
 

ADDED…

Added 20th Century Fox logo and Lucas Films logo in beginning

Added Star Wars Crawl (and intro crawl track)

Added clips of Han Solo using an Afgun from “Star Wars ANH”
 

RE-INSERTED…

Re-inserted intro scene to after the crawl

Re-inserted both Millennium Falcon fight scenes together
 

Coming Soon on DVD and AVI!

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Sounds interesting. Looks like this was probably a fun project. How soon is soon?
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Hey, it sounds like a watchable version of the holiday special :-)
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By Saturday I should have the AVI Version Ready.
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sounds familiar Good to see someone else had very similar ideas...


check this thread

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Actually this is my first time using this forum. I'm actually part of fanedit.org and I started a thread about this idea (which is now a reality). I had no intention or knowing of your version, but I would love to see your version to compare to mine. Please send me a PM and we can work out the rest.
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no problem - great minds think alike, eh?

mine was my first fan edit - so it's nothing too great - I just reworked it so I'd be able to watch it without fast forwarding through endless monotony and cheese.

I'll PM you soon about a swap or whatever.

I can't wait to see another version

EDIT: i meant "without" - not "with'

Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness - Chinese proverb

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I have just finished my final edit and are now putting the finishing touches AKA removing hissing audio and enhancing picture quality to the special.
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awesome! good luck!

(i wonder if adywan will ever work his magic on this 'special'?)

Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness - Chinese proverb

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Kudos to you, Bob!

This is a project I had hoped someone would try to undertake at some point. Hard to believe, but there is actually some salvageable material in there that would make a great little TV episode type Star Wars story.

You know, when the Special aired in France the French took it upon themselves to edit it as well. They did a similar thing, taking out most of the really campy material. I will eventually be posting an article on it on the starwarsholidayspecial.com detailing the differences. The Swedes edited it as well, but not quite as heavily. Definitely some lesser-known facts about the show.

--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]

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DVD Specifications


1. Chapter Menu

2. SWHS De-Campified

3. Commercials shown during the Holiday Special

4. iPod Version of SWHS De-Campified and Commercials

5. Info about the Edit
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Originally posted by: SKot
Kudos to you, Bob!

This is a project I had hoped someone would try to undertake at some point. Hard to believe, but there is actually some salvageable material in there that would make a great little TV episode type Star Wars story.

You know, when the Special aired in France the French took it upon themselves to edit it as well. They did a similar thing, taking out most of the really campy material. I will eventually be posting an article on it on the starwarsholidayspecial.com detailing the differences. The Swedes edited it as well, but not quite as heavily. Definitely some lesser-known facts about the show.

--SKot



I wish someone had a copy of the French Airing. I would have synced the English audio to it, turned it into a dual audio preservation and probably would have added subtitles.
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Originally posted by: Bob
I wish someone had a copy of the French Airing. I would have synced the English audio to it, turned it into a dual audio preservation and probably would have added subtitles.
I do have the French version as well as the Swedish one, but the video quality is very poor on both and wouldn't make for suitable source material for a fan edit. I don't have a lot of hope of turning up better, unfortunately... they are difficult enough to find as-is.

--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]

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Originally posted by: SKot
Originally posted by: Bob
I wish someone had a copy of the French Airing. I would have synced the English audio to it, turned it into a dual audio preservation and probably would have added subtitles.
I do have the French version as well as the Swedish one, but the video quality is very poor on both and wouldn't make for suitable source material for a fan edit. I don't have a lot of hope of turning up better, unfortunately... they are difficult enough to find as-is.

--SKot


If you could even though the quality is not very good, could you please rip them for me? I am skilled in video/audio restoration and I would love to fix them up and preserve them. If you can do this I would be so happy.
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I made my own de-campified version too. I just took out some of the stupidest stuff. That Jefferson Starship scene. That singing virtual girl. The cooking show scene. That guy who runs down on energy and has a slow voice. It made it alot more watchable. But the video quality still sucks alot of the watchability out of it.
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I used the KCCI Version of the Special for good quality and to keep it watchable.
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I have put aside the Audio Enhancing for a bit to work on the Video Enhancement. I have increased the Brightness and Saturation to give the video a more warmer feeling and remove bad lighting in the film. I will post pics once the file finishes encoding.
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Just finished the re-coloring and will be working on the sound next. I'll post some pics of the progress in about 15 minutes.
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Here are some pics of the Re-coloring I did.

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Sounds like fun. I agree about not cutting Leia's singing (however cheesy it was) ... but otherwise, this may indeed make a watchable-while-sober SWHS.

Wookiee porn been cut too I take it?
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The re-coloring has blurred your images. I'd rather see a sharper image than correct (?) colors.
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Yea I know. Like I said though quality is subject to change, I'm still fiddling around with the settings and I'm pretty close to getting exactly what I want.
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Maybe I'm being anal, but it looks like your encodes are very blocky. This will be fixed for the final, right?

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