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This is a very silly project which I’ve been meaning to do since I first saw the “lost cut” version of the cantina scene in Deleted Magic, then again since the 2011 blu-rays had this in better quality. Finally, I just stumbled upon Bobson Dugnutt’s Star Wars: Leftovers which collected together all of the source audio I could want for this into one handy package, so I no longer had any excuse not to do it.
Here is the on-set audio of British actors edited back into scenes from the film, replacing the American or alien voices they were dubbed over with. The dialogue isn’t always exactly the same, as a lot was re-written between principal photography and ADR. I’ve taken some creative liberties to focus the scenes on the lines in question and to include as much as possible.
Here is a preview version of the video. Any creative or technical feedback would be appreciated. In particular, I’m not sure if it’d work better as separate videos for each scene, or one 9-minute video as presented here. I do love the totally inappropriate transition into the cantina scene.
The video is primarily D+77, and the audio is based on the mono mix. Other sources are:
- hairy_hen’s isolated score
- 4K97_IV V2 (Jabba scene)
- Flunk DTV broadcast of the 97SE (to patch out the burnt-in subs in that scene)
- Doctor Who: The Androids of Tara (audio of Declan Mulholland screaming)
- Adywan’s regraded 2011SE (textless Greedo scene)
- JW Rinzler’s Making of SW ebook bonus videos (one shot in the Greedo scene - I know this was in BD’s Leftovers, but it was more effective to upscale it directly from the low-res source)
- Bobson Dugnutt’s capture of The Sounds of Star Wars (various sound effects)
- DMC’s archive of the old StarWars.com soundboard (other SFX)
- Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga (more SFX, extracted by iteachvader at vg-resource.com)
I tried uploading the preview to YouTube, but it was blocked as containing the SW SE. Does anyone here have experience uploading any SW content to YT while complying with their rules and jumping through their hoops? Legally, I’m pretty confident this is a “transformative work”, as no-one is going to be watching this selection of footage with different voices instead of watching some version of the actual film. I’m downloading a version of 4K77 to see if swapping in that as the video source makes a difference.
EDIT: The video is now on Vimeo. This version was previously called “preview 2”, but I think it’s finished now: https://vimeo.com/738944956
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Preview v1: https://vimeo.com/730729177