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Hi, all- I’m fairly new here and still learning the ropes. While I was at home digging through tapes for the Ghostbusters preservation over on the Misc thread, I recently came across my old VHS copy of the CBS airing of A New Hope (best I can figure it was for the ten year anniversary in 1987?) which includes specially filmed bumpers and behind the scenes material during the feature. Not to mention the very dated and entertaining commercials from head to tail.

Is this video pretty commonplace or is there anyone out there that needs it? Seeing everyone’s awesome projects they’ve been working on, I almost wonder if I should put an edit of it together?

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There's bound to be someone who'll want to see the whole thing. Is there anything in the bumpers/bts that's not in the regular making of material?
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The bumpers are all original material that I haven't seen before (ie. Carrie Fisher wishing the film a happy birthday, The Flintstones talking about their first experience seeing Star Wars... no kidding...). The behind the scenes material is the same as the Making of Star Wars video released with Faces-- only narrated by Mark Hamill.
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I for one would like to see these preserved. There used to be a thread a while back about transfering the bumpers of a couple of showings of Star Wars from the Sci-Fi Channel I think that had Billy Dee Williams and Carrie Fisher on them. I think that having the options of watching these bumpers in a copy of Star Wars would be a great extra.
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Oh, yeah. That would be totally cool.
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I would love this. Sadly i taped over my original 1980's airings years ago and I've always regretted it!
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It's definitely worth doing a disc of the bumpers, at least. I'm not personally into general commercials, but...
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The problem is that I viewed those tapes A LOT, I mean a ton and it was back in the day when care for a VHS was foreign to me- my sister is sending the tape out from CO to me and I'll have to see how much wear and tear there is on it. There'll probably be a lot of cleanup involved since it's coming from an ancient VHS source.

But why not- it'll be a good way to get myself into fan preservations... should I do a complete transfer, feature, bumpers, commercials and all?
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Well, you may as well cap it all if you have the disc space. Then you could always do 2 or 3 discs, one with the whole shebang, and one with just the "extras" (at higher quality).
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Originally posted by: netsolo
Hi, all- I'm fairly new here and still learning the ropes. While I was at home digging through tapes for the Ghostbusters preservation over on the Misc thread, I recently came across my old VHS copy of the CBS airing of A New Hope (best I can figure it was for the ten year anniversary in 1987?) which includes specially filmed bumpers and behind the scenes material during the feature. Not to mention the very dated and entertaining commercials from head to tail.

Is this video pretty commonplace or is there anyone out there that needs it? Seeing everyone's awesome projects they've been working on, I almost wonder if I should put an edit of it together?


I would love to see that, personally - I think that is the one that my Mom taped for me when I was little, so it was my first SW exposure.

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I'd certainly like to see this preserved as well. The Flintstones talking about Star Wars? That alone is worth its weight in gold.

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I second that, I'd love to see this too and I;m sure theres plenty of folks here willing to help with advice or the capping itself

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Originally posted by: SKot
I'd certainly like to see this preserved as well. The Flintstones talking about Star Wars? That alone is worth its weight in gold.

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What the holy fudge...?!?

Man, milk just shot out of my nose. And I'm not even drinking milk.



Um...

Yeah. Go for it.
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Originally posted by: andy_k_250


I would love to see that, personally - I think that is the one that my Mom taped for me when I was little, so it was my first SW exposure.


As I'm sure it was for a lot of us younger folks around here, it's just that extra little bit of nostalgia that makes it all worth the while. I like the idea of capping the entire presentation from start to finish - it shouldn't be too difficult, I can bring it straight into FCP from my deck with ease. I'll delve more into the How To technical forums once the tape makes it out here, but I'm sure cleaning up VHS video from a broadcast source is a pretty painstaking process?

EDIT: The best I can figure is that it's this airing per markhamill.com "CBS Broadcast of Star Wars [February 26, 1984] TV Guest Host of the first network airing of Star Wars. The opening and ending report given by Mark has been nicknamed the "Star Wars Wrap Around" it included an exclusive look at the behind the scenes of the movie. He also talks about what the Trilogy has meant to him."
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I for one would be pleased to see this recording preserved.
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I'm pretty sure I've seen the Hamill intro before - he's wearing a tux, right? Someone put this on a DVD already - ocpmovie, maybe? But I don't think it had the BTS stuff and certainly no Flintstones.
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Originally posted by: THX
I'm pretty sure I've seen the Hamill intro before - he's wearing a tux, right? Someone put this on a DVD already - ocpmovie, maybe? But I don't think it had the BTS stuff and certainly no Flintstones. Yes--ocpmovie put it as an extra on Return Of The Ewok, if I recall correctly. Quality was not optimal, but very watchable. However, I do think it may have been somewhat incomplete. And I know for sure the Flintstones bit was not in it. But there definitely was some of the BTS stuff taken directly from "The Making Of Star Wars", though narrated by Mark.

A complete capture of the whole thing from start to finish is definitely worth pursuing.

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What the holy fudge...?!?

Man, milk just shot out of my nose. And I'm not even drinking milk.
Hehe... I'd hoped you might notice that.

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Lights Out! (lost TV anthology shows) [ONGOING]
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Originally posted by: SKot
Yes--ocpmovie put it as an extra on Return Of The Ewok, if I recall correctly. Quality was not optimal, but very watchable. However, I do think it may have been somewhat incomplete. And I know for sure the Flintstones bit was not in it. But there definitely was some of the BTS stuff taken directly from "The Making Of Star Wars", though narrated by Mark.

A complete capture of the whole thing from start to finish is definitely worth pursuing.


Narrated identically to Making of Star Wars (I vividly recall this line, "The end result is a masterful illusion..." as the Falcon is being pulled into the Death Star).

I'm excited to get started on this, I'll keep everyone posted. Hopefully I'll have the tape in hand after the holiday weekend.
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Originally posted by: netsolo
Originally posted by: andy_k_250


I would love to see that, personally - I think that is the one that my Mom taped for me when I was little, so it was my first SW exposure.


As I'm sure it was for a lot of us younger folks around here, it's just that extra little bit of nostalgia that makes it all worth the while. I like the idea of capping the entire presentation from start to finish - it shouldn't be too difficult, I can bring it straight into FCP from my deck with ease. I'll delve more into the How To technical forums once the tape makes it out here, but I'm sure cleaning up VHS video from a broadcast source is a pretty painstaking process?

EDIT: The best I can figure is that it's this airing per markhamill.com "CBS Broadcast of Star Wars [February 26, 1984] TV Guest Host of the first network airing of Star Wars. The opening and ending report given by Mark has been nicknamed the "Star Wars Wrap Around" it included an exclusive look at the behind the scenes of the movie. He also talks about what the Trilogy has meant to him."


That sounds about right - we taped it at least a few years before we moved, and that was in 1987 - I remember watching it at our old house, so I hope that time marker helps.

We edited the commercials off when we taped it, though - I remember it because whenever I watch SW now, I am always surprised that there aren't obvious commercial cuts "editing" it differently based off of the bad pause-play recording.

What version is the sound mix? Some of the lines are different, I think, than most versions - for instance, I think what the stormtroopers say when checking Mos Eisley houses is different (or more like the mono mix?). This might just be bad memory on my part, but I think there might be some differences.
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I used to have this airing on VHS. I remember the Mark Hamil into/ending. The bumpers between commercials had lots of people talking about when they saw Star Wars. I think I might still be at my parent's house somewere. Unfortunately, I don't have most of the "good stuff" (bumpers, etc) anymore, due to an attempt to take out commercials.

I'm pretty sure that the audio mix for the '84 CBS airing was the standard 35mm mix. The mono mix only made it on the air once, in the UK, I think.
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I'm fairly certain it's not the mono mix, again- without having it in-hand until after the weekend I'm having to go by memory. But if memory serves, it has all the quirks of that initial 35mm mix, no 3PO line over the detention block map, etc.
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So, we know that Star Wars aired on TV in 1984 originally with the Mark Hamill intro and outro. I keep hearing people mention 1987, so was it aired again then for the 10th anniversary? Maybe it's only the 1987 airing that had the Flintstones, etc. in it? All the more reason to make a capture of that version if so.

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Preserving the…cringe…Star Wars Holiday Special [COMPLETED]
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Lights Out! (lost TV anthology shows) [ONGOING]
Iznogoud (1995 animated series) English audio preservation [ONGOING]

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I remember watching this on TV. It was the first time I made dinner for the family.
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Well tape now in hand, I can confirm that it's from the 1984 showing. How do I know? After pulling the tape out and using precision carbon-dating techniques... no... I could only wish. The first commercial break (following Magic Johnson's fond ode to R2-D2 "I really dug on R2, he's my boy.") There's an exclusive first look at Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan coming March 30th... Greystoke, of course, being released in 1984. Jackpot. The only catch is that the recording on the tape starts immediately at the Fox fanfare... no intro. And for some reason, even at a young age, I decided to re-edit the trench run to include Lando flying the Falcon into the Death Star, figure that one out... But everything else is firmly in place. Hamill in his tux on a "set" closing things up is also on the tape. (And I'm sure everyone's dying to hear Valeri Bertinelli talk about the first time she saw Star Wars and how R2 and 3PO remind her of Laurel and Hardy.)

I'm just amazed at how well this tape has withstood the test of time. The reels may have yellowed and the tracking may phase in and out but it's still in fantastic shape given it's age...

So given that the feature is somewhat incomplete (man did I F with the continuity having Lando show up or what) maybe I should do a transfer of the bumpers and commercials? Put together a mini-featurette of sorts?
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