Star Wars 1977 releases on 35mm — Page 5

Brooks said:

Papercut said:

I can confirm there were SE VCDs produced in Asia. I owned a set that unfortunately has been lost in the sands of time...

 

I remember seeing them on ebay around 2000/2001 or so and thinking whhaaaaa?? It would be an interesting thing to add to the old collection. Around that time I actually made some vcds of video I captured before dvd burners were affordable.  As I recall they were mpeg1 and supposed to be around the same resolution as vhs but I remember thinking they didn't look very good.

VCD is, hands-down, the worst home video format ever.

Even CED is preferable to VCD.

Yuck, yuck, yuck.

Depend on the print, a great neg I would attempt to scan at 10K, however most prints resolve more than 2K but less than 4K. So 35mm theatrical prints I would be scanning at 4K, 16mm prints @ 2.5K.

They are 120MB per frame, I am just finishing off the Super8 and 16mm scans I have to get through, then will post some 35mm frames, probably early next month.

No compression should be needed. Just a file sharing site :)

I'm going to be in Napean hospital until late next week, so if I don't respond to PMs I'm not being rude, but will follow them up in about a week. 

poita said:

I'm going to be in Napean hospital until late next week, so if I don't respond to PMs I'm not being rude, but will follow them up in about a week. 

Are you feeling all right? If not, then I wish you all the best, man! Take care. =D

I'm pretty crook, but they have let me out for a few hours :)

Hope to be home again by the end of the week.

Australian for "I'm not feeling very well".

TV's Frink said:

poita said:

I'm pretty crook

Er, what?

Moth3r said:

Australian for "I'm not feeling very well".

So that's what Nixon meant! He did not lie after all!

Moth3r said:

Australian for "I'm not feeling very well".

All those years of watching Neighbours & Home and Away have finally come in usefull..............

You can learn the Australian language Star-Wars style by watching this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhTn8cjm9ZM

Yes, crook means a bit sick, pretty crook means damn-near dead :)

Oh, but make sure you have the subtitles on if you are not a native :)

Off-topic here, but did you know the Star Wars Holiday Special aired multiple times in Australia? It's the only country in the world I know of where it was aired more than once. It's supposed to have aired in 1979 and 1980. I have a copy that was aired in 1983, and another from August 1984. I have heard it aired as late as the late 80s before it finally stopped.

Why did the Aussies love the Holiday Special so much that they had to see it more than once? :)

--SKot

In country areas there were only 2 television stations in the 1980s. Stuff just got shown over and over. Even the capital cities only had 4 TV stations at the time, and cable didn't exist.

So yeah, I saw it multiple times on the telly, I think it was shown way more than twice.

poita said:

In country areas there were only 2 television stations in the 1980s. Stuff just got shown over and over. Even the capital cities only had 4 TV stations at the time, and cable didn't exist.

So yeah, I saw it multiple times on the telly, I think it was shown way more than twice.

What I find interesting about this is that somehow Lucasfilm or CBS kept it from being shown more than once everywhere else...but somehow Australia was special. Either that, or the TV stations were just ignoring any mandates they were given!

I'll likely be moving to Melbourne to join my wife down under by sometime next year. What better place for me, I suppose, than the land where the Holiday Special showed over and over again...

--SKot

poita said:

 

Yes, crook means a bit sick, pretty crook means damn-near dead :)

Not again! Seriously - hope you're OK.

russs15 said:

Moth3r said:

Australian for "I'm not feeling very well".

All those years of watching Neighbours & Home and Away have finally come in usefull..............

Neighbours... and Crocodile Dundee.