I’ve been considering to de-Lucas “The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones” for some time now.
I have a the Japanese laserdiscs with baked in subtitles where I could
Use my off air recordings and mask out subtitles where needed.
It would be a bit of work but rewarding. I saw someone make versions on YouTube but the quality is not the greatest.
The most inferior quality/challenging part would be the bookends that only aired in foreign countries.
You have no idea how much I would appreciate just the making of from the Japanese Laserdisc in good quality.
The rip that used to be on YouTube was horrible.
I haven’t picked the set up because the price its absurd it’s not worth 500 dollars or more it is being sold for.
This sounds great! 👍 The more Young Indy copies the better. Wish I’d recorded the BBC2 airings for nostalgia reasons 😦
Thought that this may be interesting, if you’ve not already seen.
@JadedSkywalker I am still working on capturing all the laserdiscs. But if you like, shoot me a DM with an email address and I’ll share a google drive link of what I have as I go through it all.
@gary1 Thanks for the reply. Happy to share with you too if you want to DM me with an email address.
I’ve also heard of the bookends from overseas and I’ve always been interested that were different edits of the show.
Why did Lucas recut the show for VHS and DVD, does anyone know.
I think just as Lucas couldn’t leave Star Wars alone, he recut Young Indy to make it feel more theatrical, rather than a TV show. Some of the re-edits work but I prefer the way I saw it as a kid.
Combining two unrelated stories into one mini-movie makes the pacing feel really off for me. I also love “old Indy.” He gave the story such heart and developed Indiana Jones’ character full circle about a life well-lived. But I guess Old Indy is probably considered a little “corny”…especially by today’s standards.
I keep wondering how Young INDY fits Crystal Skull or Dial of Destiny, it’s better to not try.
I guess we should talk. I have my own project I’m ready to release, where I have almost the entire aired series personally recorded to VHS, which I’ve digitally transferred and, with editing help from deadakaalive (he did the FRIENDS HD+Extended edit), made as complete as possible. I can certainly help you know what is and isn’t supposed to be in the original Chronicles version, and you’ll have my video and audio to work with for whatever fixes you are wanting to make.
I keep wondering how Young INDY fits Crystal Skull or Dial of Destiny, it’s better to not try.
Young Indy straight up ruins Dial of Destiny, as you find that not only has he been to Tangiers as a kid (and briefly sold into slavery), but he picked up Arabic language while there, which he later mentions being his first foreign language in a foreign language battle of wits against Elizabeth Hurley… So, Indy needing Helen to translate for him in a place he’s already been just shows that the people who wrote that movie had no idea what they were doing. (Also, the diamond in Temple of Doom’s opening is supposed to be the Peacock’s Eye.)
Oh, and I forgot to mention that my VHS transfers actually look pretty good.