BH018 has news reports from the RotJ Hastings movie heist.
Received word of a possible black and white 1/2" Sony reel to reel 1977 Star Wars recording.
more memories:
http://boards.theforce.net/classic_trilogy/b10002/16459367/p1/
I was at a flea market about 40 miles from my home this weekend. A dealer that had tons of videos, mostly just copies of movies he rented, or old junk had one video I kind of wanted. It was Star Wars but not the official release. It was in the standard video box like the blank tapes come in. But someone took a sheet of paper that had a Star Wars poster scan on it and wraped it around the box. This scan had to be done on some old copy machine. It was very dark.
The dealer told me this was a bootleg copy of Star Wars taken in during the release of the movie. I thought he meant it was a copy from HBO or other video. BUt he played some of it on the little 13inch TV he had set up. The video wasn't great but you could tell it was taken with a video camera inside a theather. Didn't seem to be anyone else watching it but you could see some of the seats. The picture was kind of dark. He told me that he and a friend that own a theatre at the time made it.
I LOVE my Bootleg of ANH. Had it since I was 6 yrs old. Back in the days when RCA made VHS tapes. 2 Defects though. No opening crawl. And Luke says "They followed us" twice, just before they go on the Death Star. I dare say I still have it. I watch it from time to time because it was my only copy of ANH untill the letterbox THX edition of '95.
Does anyone know of changes done to Return of the Jedi- I used to have an old bootleg copy of that lying around. I got it while it was still in theatres, letterbox and everything, great transfer. I don't remember it being any different though. And yeah, I'd probably buy the old bootleg Star Wars tape!
Some of the most prized parts of my collection are bootlegs. It's just generally a no-no to mention certain aspects of it.
I actually have a bootleg copy of Empire Strikes Back. An old friend of my dad's had a son in the Army at the time and Lucas showed the film to the servicemen. Well, the son took in a camera and his dad gave my dad a copy of it. The image isn't bad, it's the sound that is awful.
My cousin had this boot back in '78 or '79, bought off the streets of NYC. I remember it well.
I had the ROtJ - indeed it was in WS & very good quality for a bootleg.
And I have a copy of ANH without the Ep. IV as well, I never knew it was A New Hope until I bought the 15th anniversary VHS P&S version from 1992 on video, since my copies wree so dark and old. From years of watching...
http://boards.theforce.net/toronto_on/b10043/6776026/r6823998/
I think that by the second week that EP1 was out, folks had passed me
3 or 4 different versions.
(aside) Uzay molds