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Length Metafilter.com post about well:

http://www.metafilter.com/107537/Taking-Star-Wars-back-from-George-Lucas-one-edit-at-a-time

OT.com is given much attention.

(they even mention TV's Frink's Rediculousness)

I'll copy the article here, cus I can:  (but the links won't work, so go visit the top link)

Taking Star Wars back from George Lucas, one edit at a time
September 17, 2011 8:13 PM   Subscribe

So you've come to terms with it: George Lucas doesn't give a shit about you. Maybe it was the minor edits to the re-releases, like Han shooting second, or one of the recent Blu-Ray additions with Darth Vader shouting Nooooo at the end of Return Of The Jedi, or maybe you liked the movies, except for silly characters like the Ewoks or Jar Jar Binks. However it happened, you are pining for the early version of Star Wars you remembered before all those changes, or maybe you're dreaming of a version without some of the schmaltzy stuff. Dream no more, the Fan Preservers and Fan Editors are making your wishes real.

It started before any Star Wars films were available on DVD, with Phantom Menace being released to VHS in 1999. Given this context, the online leak of Phantom Menace before DVDs were available was bad, but the distribution of an "improved" version of was unheard of. But it was out there, The Phantom Edit, tightened up by 18 minutes. The Phantom Editor, trying to remove the negative elements in the movie he otherwise enjoyed, started something bigger.

Along with the desire to improve the Prequel Trilogy, there was a desire to get Lucas to release the unaltered Original Trilogy on DVD. With The Phantom Menace in theaters in 1999, Star Wars was back in popular demand at the same time that DVDs were becoming a household format. The bootleg market filled the retail DVD gap for Star Wars, with the general range in quality you could expect from bootleg copies of LaserDisc movies, which were the highest quality versions of the original trilogy available at that time. http://www.originaltrilogy.com/">Fans started as an online petition for the original original trilogy, the theatrical edition without the 1997 special edition revisions (and earlier edits). The petition site grew over time, adding a forum for restoration efforts by the fans themselves. In 2006, the original unaltered Trilogy (or original Original Trilogy, OTT) was released on DVD, but they were poorly done in the eyes of fans. But by this time, fan efforts to transfer audio and video from official Laserdiscs were under way, encouraged in part by the changes to the 2004 Special Edition versions of the original trilogy.

Some results are collected on the Original Trilogy forums, sorted into efforts to preserve the original original trilogy and fan edits to the six movies, akin to the original Phantom Edit effort to personally improve the various Star Wars movies. Since then, Fan Edit has come along and gathered "the greatest Star Wars fan edits", which is quite nice, because there are a LOT of Star Wars fan edits.

It's 2011, and Blu-Ray is the format to use. With the new format comes a new release of the Star Wars movies, and more changes to the films. But there's more digital material available to fans all the time, so why not make your own edition? Or you could make something that's altogether different, like the What's Up, Tiger Lily-like Geordie Star Wars.

The Videos:
- Preservation samples -
Original title and crawl
16mm test clip, from the Puggo Grande 16mm restoration effort

- Streamlined edits -
Star Wars Episode I.I – The Phantom Edit (with commentary) [by The Phantom Editor; fan edit information]
Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Phantom (commentary) [by The Phantom Editor; fan edit info]
Star Wars Episode III: Dark Force Rising [by Kerr; fan edit info]

- And a ridiculous edit, for good measure -
Trailer and the first 12 minutes of a rough edit of Star Wars Episode I: The Ridiculous Menace

Star Wars: Episode I - Balance of the Force [by Magnoliafan; fan edit info]
Star Wars: Episode II - The Clone War [by MagnoliaFan; fan edit info]

The Original Trilogy forum members have found and put together an impressive collection of material. One noteworthy collection was previously featured on the blue: Star Wars Begins, the ultimate Original Trilogy documentary.

Random bonus documentary: The Mythology of Star Wars, 1999 documentary with Bill Moyers interviewing George Lucas

posted by filthy light thief (111 comments total) 99 users marked this as a favorite

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First paragraph last link: http://bytesizegeek.wordpress.com/2011/04/13/star-wars-revisited/

none said:

OT.com is given much attention.

(they even mention TV's Frink's Rediculousness)

Wow, that's really cool...

Hey wait, they linked to the digital fanedits page instead of my threads either here or at FE...you know, the place that banned me and changed my avatar to a rat because they're a bunch of insecure nutjobs?

This will not stand.

Anyone know how I can contact them to fix this?  I don't see any way to do it.

TV's Frink wrote: Anyone know how I can contact them to fix this?  I don't see any way to do it.

Join and post in the thread.  or from the person's user page (filthy light thief), this might be their web home: http://www.distort.us/

Eh, that sounds like too much work ;-)

none said:

TV's Frink wrote: Anyone know how I can contact them to fix this?  I don't see any way to do it.

Join and post in the thread.  or from the person's user page (filthy light thief), this might be their web home: http://www.distort.us/

I looked into joining today, only to discover they charge five bucks!  No thanks.

Five bucks?

You could buy a fish supper with that.

There's no way I'm paying a single cent to join an online community.

TV's Frink wrote: There's no way I'm paying a single cent to join an online community.

You don't have to, I provided a second option for contacting this individual.  If necessary do a whois on the domain, to get a contact e-mail address. (hint:psittig@calpoly.edu)

If Jay couldn't pay the bills for this place would you help keep it functioning? 
Metafilter works in this fashion, and the side benefit is the fee keeps out nutjobs for the most part.  Not saying this will work for all forums, but metafilter's post quality show that it works for them.

Man, that still sounds like too much work.  Especially given that the website you linked to is a design disaster...makes my eyes hurt.

If Jay needed donations, I'd probably chip in.  But I've been here a while now - that's not the same thing.

THIS THREAD IS NOW ABOUT ME

It's not really about me.  Ask in off-topic.

Pennsylvania Jones said:

Bingowings said:

Five bucks?

You could buy a fish supper with that.

But who's gonna eat it, kid?  You?

I was hoping someone would say, "But who's gonna fry it kid. you?".

I wouldn't eat it as I come from the planet Vegetar.