Reconstructing 'The Thief of Baghdad' aka 'The Blue Rose' (1961)

A fairly basic project by this site’s standards, I intend to re-edit the HD BluRay transfer of the Italian film ‘Il ladro di Bagdad’ (1961) to conform to its original English release, titled ‘The Thief of Baghdad’, and supposedly in other parts of the world as ‘The Blue Rose’, though I’ve not found a poster or title card to support that theory.

Long story short, the complete English version only exists in very poor pan-and-scan VHS transfer.
Whereas the German Blu-ray version, which only came out in 2019, is of the longer Italian version. There is an English track, but any extra footage only has Italian with English subtitles.
Easy, I thought, just cut the extra stuff, replace the title cards and credits and done.
Wrong.
Instead, scenes have been re-arranged, single extra frames that need to be cut, shots missing from the Italian version, shots that crossfade into missing scenes, and I’m working with KdenLive. Joy.

V1 will be out when it’s done. Currently up to ~42 min mark of the film.
Would only consider a V2 if by some miracle someone can find and scan a print of the Eng. ver. of the film. Y’know, Unicorn stuff.

It is done.

In all, 2 minutes of opening and closing titles, plus an additional 47 seconds within the film proper, had to be taken from the tape source. The rest is in HD. Audio is a straight rip from the tape; there is negligible quality difference between the tape and BD in terms of audio, plus it meant no audio editing. 😃