Idea: Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie - deleted scenes restoration?

The new Shout Factory Blu Ray/DVD combo release has the deleted scenes, unfortunately, the quality is pretty awful. It’s like someone fed a VHS tape into one of those late 1990’s Video CD standalone recorders or something.

Even the theatrical trailer looks the same way. And I’ve seen that in better quality on a promotional VHS that was only given to video stores at the time. (It was recut a bit though.)

There may not be much that can be done to salvage the deleted host segments because of this. Even if the footage still exists somewhere, I doubt anyone at Universal is going to pony up for a proper transfer of those elements.

However, in theory, someone could take the DVD of This Island Earth, lift the clean theater silhouettes from the closing credits of the film and composite them?

Your thoughts, gentlemen?

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I was pissed I missed out on an auction for the 35mm trailer a couple months back. Can't be too many of those around.

I'll actually have to get this DVD/Blu Ray soon. I've seen only the asteroid scene, and plus it would be the perfect companion to the Season 6 set I've got.

Too bad about that trailer. There was a YouTube upload of decent quality, so I wonder where that came from.