Info: OT Reel lengths...

Standard 1000ft reels

First frame of each reel, with its GOUT offset

GOUT
Frame | HH:MM:SS

689 - STAR WARS title card appears . . . clap

012,676 | 00:08:48
027,8___ | 00:19:20 - fade to black
041,351 | 00:28:44
055,749 | 00:38:45
070,632 | 00:49:05
086,677 | 01:00:15
100,686 | 01:09:59
113,652 | 01:19:00
128,032 | 01:29:00
144,053 | 01:40:08
158,395 | 01:50:06

Times are calculated using the simple formula:
[(Frame) / (24000/1001)] with the remainder thrown away.
They might or might not match any given DVD player’s display.

We might be able to guesstimate filling in the blank using the cue dots on Moth3r’s widescreen bootleg

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Last edited on June 26, 2010 at 8:46 PM by Darth Mallwalker

That was NTSC. This is PAL GOUT:

689 - STAR WARS title card

012,676 || Reel02
027.822 || Reel03
041,351 || Reel04
055,749 || Reel05
070,632 || Reel06
086,677 || Reel07
100,686 || Reel08
113,652 || Reel09
128,032 || Reel10
144.054 || Reel11
158.396 || Reel12

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Mallwalker said:

GOUT
Frame

688 - STAR WARS title card appears . . . *clap*

015,591 | 0:10:50 | Reel02 | Luke collapses in snow
030,742 | 0:21:22 | Reel03 | Han welding
046,518 | 0:32:20 | Reel04 | walker's ankles (wonder if the leader of this reel contains Luke's other grappling hook miss ;)
059,569 | 0:41:24 | Reel05 | pterodactyls
075,060 | 0:52:10 | Reel06 | 'conference call' with Vader
090,888 | 1:03:10 | Reel07 | Luke enters cave
106,133 | 1:13:46 | Reel08 | Falcon perched on destroyer
121,723 | 1:24:36 | Reel09 | X-wing leaves Dagobah
134,731 | 1:33:39 | Reel10 | Han 'walks the plank'
150,204 | 1:44:24 | Reel11 | Luke bounces on trampoline (end of Reel10)
165,250 | 1:54:52 | Reel12 | Falcon fleeing Bespin

Times are calculated using simple formula: (Frame) divided by (24000/1001)
They might or might not match any given DVD player's display

Here's RotJ

GOUT
Frame | HH:MM:SS

689 - STAR WARS title card appears . . . *clap*

011,771 | 00:08:10
024,346 | 00:16:55
039,042 | 00:27:08
053,182 | 00:36:58
068,664 | 00:47:43
083,374 | 00:57:57
098,144 | 01:08:13
111,450 | 01:17:28
127,216 | 01:28:25
141,781 | 01:38:33
155,269 | 01:47:56
170,895 | 01:58:47

Times are calculated using the simple formula:
[(Frame) / (24000/1001)] with the remainder thrown away.
They might or might not match any given DVD player's display.

Corrections would be appreciated!

------------------------------Original post is unedited above this line -------------------------------

Corrections will still be appreciated!

That was NTSC. This is PAL GOUT:

689 - STAR WARS title card

011,771 || Reel02
024,346 || Reel03
039,042 || Reel04
053,182 || Reel05
068.666 || Reel06
083.376 || Reel07
098.146 || Reel08
111.452 || Reel09
127.218 || Reel10
141.782 || Reel11
155.270 || Reel12
170.896 || Reel13

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Thanks again Red5

If you have the theatrical telecine you can literally see the reel change--two series of cigarette burns and then about 10-30 missing frames at the head and tail of the changeover so there's a big jump cut, along with an audio pop. You can hear the jumps on the 70mm audio bootleg too. You could probably just look up the frame rate on GOUT in the corresponding cut. But it would make a good confirmation tool to the times you have listed above.

I thought there were only six reels?

I remember someone asking about reel changes a while ago. IIRC he was planning on making a set with high-bitrate video and PCM audio spread over six DVDs, with the disc swaps aligned with the reel changes.

Can you remember the thread I'm talking about?

Or this one:
http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Help-with-synching-PAL-GOUT-to-the-77-stereo-mix/topic/7864/

Printed on six 2000ft reels for distribution?
While IP is on 'standard' 1000ft reels. That's my best guess anyway.

Perhaps the real film experts like zombie, Puggo, etc. can correct me

I'm not entirely sure, but I think raw negative is traditionally edited into 1000 foot reels. Projection is a bit different though, release prints for features are typically 6 reels (or more, depending on length) and the standard length is 2000 feet. I'm not sure when the cigarette burns would be put in and what length the IP would be, but it wouldn't surprise me if it was the 2000' length with the burn marks for change-overs. Release prints are ultimately duped straight from it--the only reason the Internegative exists is because you can't print positive from a positive, so I would assume that the IP is basically theatre-ready. But maybe that all gets done in the internegative so that the IP is more "prestine".

Does the IP/GOUT even have cigarette burns? It would be hard to tell if the reel changes on the IP are the same as the release prints unless there is noticeable frame cutting (as the heads and tails of reels sometimes lose a frame or two to damage over the years) but we'd be talking a difference of two or three frames here--and only if they had to splice out a damaged head/tail frame.

GOUT has no cue marks.

IP might be 2000ft reels ... I'll likely never see an IP to know for sure.
But these are some we can see now:
- domestic Pan/Scan CAV laserdisc
- Japanese SC laserdisc (first widescreen transfer)
- GOUT

Now for this example, let us consider the first changeover in ESB.
First reel ends with Artoo standing outside the base, scanning for Luke.
Threepio tries to reassure themselves "He'll be quite alright."
Second reel begins with Luke collapsing in the snow (returning from wampa cave.)

Pan/Scan laserdisc is missing 4 frames of Artoo + 3 frames of Luke
3+4 = 7 frames missing compared to GOUT

JSC laserdisc is missing 5 frames of Artoo + 2 of Luke = 7 fewer than GOUT

[GOUT might be missing some frames too, compared to IP, but we'll never know it.]

So these are the raw data I've collected.
They're typical of what I've found across the board for all three films.

What does it mean?
Well I'd say . . . IP can exist on 2000ft reels if-and-only-if
a new IP was pepared (from 1000ft negative reels) for each laserdisc release.

zombie, how does that match your earlier research? I've searched in vain for your post(s) about when new IPs were printed. IIRC you had written on that topic before.
Were new IPs made for each of those laserdisc releases?




By the way I've done some interpolating, and some extrapolating based on Moth3r's cue dots, and I've decided "Thank the maker" reel begins at GOUT offset 27,820 (give-or-take four-or-five frames ;)

I have no idea what the original Laserdisks were sourced from. Maybe an IP, maybe just a theatrical print.

In 1985, a new IP was printed for the specific purpose of creating a new, high quality source for home video (the existing IPs were falling apart and old). This was the source for every single (American) home video release since then, as far as my research shows. It was the source of the GOUT/DC, and the source of the Faces set. (It was even used as a source for the SE restoration).

My understanding is that the only post-1985 LD releases with burn marks are the PAL disks--which makes sense since they were taken from a different source. Thinking about it now, it does make sense that burn marks are not put in to the IP, because the IP is basically the raw master for the film (since the O-neg doesn't have color timing). The 1985 IP doesn't have subs either, since they were electronically (I'm pretty sure) generated for specific video releases as countries dictated. Probably this was done on the D1/2 master of each specific release.

...however, since the 1985 IP was never intended to be used as a theatrical base, maybe this is why there was no theatre artifacts like burn marks. You don't need burn marks if it is made for video. So, there is still an out there.

Let me ask you this: was there ever an American Laserdisk release after 1985 that had burns? And does the DC/Faces themselves have burns?

If the answer to the first is yes, then there are a number of possibilities there. But if the answer to the second is yes, then...well, I don't know what that would mean except that they couldn't possibly be derived from the GOUT unless we find evidence of image tampering to hide them (which would be extremely difficult on 1993 electronic video telecine technology).

EDIT

After further research, changeover burn marks can be added either to prints or to IPs. It's basically up to the lab and/or producer's preference. The 1985 IP doesn't have any, if GOUT is any indication.

Darth Mallwalker said:

I've decided "Thank the maker" reel begins at GOUT offset 27,820

wikipedia.org said:

According to SMPTE-55 (SMPTE Universal leader), there shall be 4 frames of motor cue, followed by 168 frames of picture, followed by 4 frames of changeover cue, followed by 24 frames of picture.

FWIW

I know from personal experience that film prints dont come in standard length size when they hit the theatres

Negatives might be different

But Ive seen some reels bigger than others straight from the studio, seen movies come in anywhere from 5 to 10+ reels, and depending on their print source.....matching up one print to another to exact frame numbers can be quite difficult given that the projectionist often if not always makes splices that cut off different number of frames on each reel, and depending on their setup, splices them together......not always in a seamless fashion

By the time a theatre is done with the print, since most of them get treated like crap and get subjected to things happening like the film sliding on the side of a roller causing a scratch or hitting the grate in the projector causing a almost constant scratch or my favorite.....a brain wrap where cutting and splicing the print is done, often a few frames out

So hopefully the studios have an unused print source instead of relying on returns from theatres

From "ESB IMPERIAL EDITION.nfo"

dakjedi9999 said:

--- 1M3/2M1 Luke's Escape: Original - Unused parts
--- 3M4/4M1 Luke's First Crash: Film Cut
--- 5M4/6M1 Solo And The Princess: Film Cut
--- 6M5/7M1 The Magic Tree: Film Cut
--- 7M4/8M1 Vader's Command: Original - Unused parts
--- 9M6/10M1 Carbon Freeze: Film Cut

Thanks for the 70mm info.
They seem to match the release print used for [Moth3r's] bootleg telecine, shown there:
http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Help-with-synching-PAL-GOUT-to-the-77-stereo-mix/topic/7864/

i will be adding both sw, and esb

information. once i've confirmed them.

didn't want to forget about this thread.

later

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Great! Do tell if you find any errors, I want to know.

Although they're not listed here in this thread, I also have compiled
the first frame of the last shot on each reel, and
the last frame of the first shot on each reel.

Perhaps those data would be useful when it's time to combine the individual VOB files
that you were working in the other thread.

ok, i've completed the first pass

of the shot list for all 7 VOB files

for star wars NTSC widescreen here:

============================

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/frame-data-star-wars-GOUT-NTSC-widescreen-V10-now-complete/topic/9567/

i'll post a spreadsheet,

and there will a few updates,

checks against frame numbers as

a single VOB, and maybe some kind

of grouping of the shots.

that's it for now.

later

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none said:

Looking at RotJ newscasts found the first of the cue markers for that film:



Odd that newscasts would have been given a telecine of an actual 35mm print. The scene is where Leia and Luke jump onto the speeder bikes pursuing the escaping Scout Troopers. About 53:00-56:00 minutes in. (dependent upon version) Unsure if this pic is from the In or Out marker section.

none said:

How did the Special Editions affect the reel lengths? Or was the new material able to squeeze into the existing cues.

I'm pretty sure ESB SE also had the same reel breaks as the original, the '97 ESB I compiled lack one frame but is still two frames more complete than the NTSC 2004 DVD, see here: http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Complete-Comparison-of-Special-Edition-Visual-Changes/post/590213/#TopicPost590213

two frames are absent around the 2nd reel change and one frame at the tail end of reel 4 that are present on the '97 Broadcasts.

ok, i'm pretty sure we have 99%+ of the

frames needed now.

there might some small gaps here and there,

i haven't checked for sure.

when we make our final assembly cut,

i'll go through the details and post our

findings for our new reference.

we will have to wait on empire, because

thats going to a lot longer, and will be

trickier to do because we still have a few

adjustments to make to it.

later

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negative1 said:

there might some small gaps here and there,