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Info Wanted: Indiana Jones documentaries?

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Hello there, I was directed to this forum as the place from which the “Making of Indiana Jones Trilogy” documents came and went on Bit Torrent, hopefully it’s true that they were made here. The search finds references to them so I hope this is the right place. I wanted to ask if anyone here is still distributing these on some tracker? And are they in normal size? I’m asking because I know they were all seeded on the My Spleen tracker last year; but first, those torrents are dead now, and second, the versions that were there were split into three full discs, so every small 40 minute documentary took a whole 4 gigabytes of a DVD+R disc, which is insane. Does anyone know if they’re still online, and ideally in a normal-sized version (all three as one DVD or even better as DIVX or XVID encoded videos) ?

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Welcome. If you dig in the vaults here, you may find what you're looking for, and the right people to talk to.

But be careful what you find - this place can get addicting!

Cheers.
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Welcome, ComradeJonns.
Myspleen should be coming back in the near future. As I hear it, they are getting close to getting enough donations to bring it back up. I'm not sure which making of documentaries you are looking for, but DigitalFreakNYC has a the Making of Raiders of the Lost Ark, Great Movie Stunts:Raiders of the Lost Ark, Great Adventurers and their Quests:Making of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and even the Making of Indiana Jones and Temple of Doom, taken from a PBS airing. As far as I know, it never made it to home video in any form. If your looking for the Indiana Jones documentaries, look these up.
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Originally posted by: ComradeJonns...so every small 40 minute documentary took a whole 4 gigabytes of a DVD+R disc, which is insane. Does anyone know if they're still online, and ideally in a normal-sized version (all three as one DVD or even better as DIVX or XVID encoded videos) ?


The 'preservation' part of these forums means that more often than not the creators of these discs (In the case of Indy, DFNYC) don't compress the hell out of the footage - none of the source files are pin sharp, so you would probably notice the difference.

Don't get me wrong, living in the Uk with a throttle P2P connection means these discs can take a long time to download, but I feel it is worth it to add such a good copy to our 'archive'.

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