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Originally posted by: IrishLuck1980
I remember as a kid seeing a commercial that had those coins flying in the air. It aired around the time of Return of the Jedi. Anyone remember this?
This doesn't ring a bell for me. But once I organize all the ROTJ commercial clips I have, I'll keep an eye out for that.

--SKot

Projects:
Return Of The Ewok and Other Short Films (with OCPmovie) [COMPLETED]
Preserving the…cringe…Star Wars Holiday Special [COMPLETED]
The Star Wars TV Commercials Project [DORMANT]
Felix the Cat 1919-1930 early film shorts preservation [ONGOING]
Lights Out! (lost TV anthology shows) [ONGOING]
Iznogoud (1995 animated series) English audio preservation [ONGOING]

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*bump*

Anybody know of any commercials that have aired this year (2006)?

I know of at least a handful of trailers for the Lego Star Wars II game.

--SKot

Projects:
Return Of The Ewok and Other Short Films (with OCPmovie) [COMPLETED]
Preserving the…cringe…Star Wars Holiday Special [COMPLETED]
The Star Wars TV Commercials Project [DORMANT]
Felix the Cat 1919-1930 early film shorts preservation [ONGOING]
Lights Out! (lost TV anthology shows) [ONGOING]
Iznogoud (1995 animated series) English audio preservation [ONGOING]

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Does commercials for the DVD release count? I'm pretty sure there was at least one aired.
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Originally posted by: Number20
Does commercials for the DVD release count? I'm pretty sure there was at least one aired.
That's right; there were those as well. I saw a couple on TV, but I don't think I have any of them. Did anybody capture these in decent quality, or find them anywhere?

--SKot

Projects:
Return Of The Ewok and Other Short Films (with OCPmovie) [COMPLETED]
Preserving the…cringe…Star Wars Holiday Special [COMPLETED]
The Star Wars TV Commercials Project [DORMANT]
Felix the Cat 1919-1930 early film shorts preservation [ONGOING]
Lights Out! (lost TV anthology shows) [ONGOING]
Iznogoud (1995 animated series) English audio preservation [ONGOING]

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Has anyone gotten the latest Cinemax HD commercials from here?

http://www.cinemax.com/starwars/poster.html
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I was trying to but couldnt figure out how to save them

FINISHED:
The Sith Revealed - A Scrapbook
Episode III The Video Game - The Movie
24: The Missing Day
Star Wars - The Interactive Board Game DVD
Battlefront - Journal of the 501st
The Clones Revealed

email me for details daveytod AT btinternet DOT com

 

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Originally posted by: daveytod
I was trying to but couldnt figure out how to save them


Save off the 1k ref files, open them in Quicktime and you'll see the url for the full file.

HTH

Save London’s Curzon Soho Cinema

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>>Have you thought to try and track down any TV promos for the Holiday Special? I'm sure there were some. Those would be a hoot to see after all these years.
>> SKOT: You can bet I've thought about that many times... I'm sure there had to be some as well, and chances are I may have even seen one on TV back in the day. But unfortunately, I've never in all these years found any further evidence of one.


Late reply.

I showed Skot this months ago, but a TV ad for the Holiday Special definitely turned up on Youtube. It advertised the special, as well as a show called Flying High.


Weirdly, now that I've posted this, I can't find the damn thing. Doesn't show up in a search for the Star Wars Holiday Special.


EDIT: Yep. Thank you Google caching. "This video has been removed at the request of copyright owner CBS Corporation because its content was used without permission"

2241 views before it was taken down.

The video was posted by user 8traxrule. You can PM him over at youtube.

He wrote: "Found this on a tape of the "Hawaii Five-O" that aired the night before (11/16/78). Wish I could find a copy of the special that looks this good. Did anyone tape the "Flying High" show that came on afterwards? ..."
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I can think of another project that also needs this commercial.
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I'm thinking that wasting electricity turns people off.
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DVD-Boy did you actually get this to work? I was able to capture thet ref files but didn't see a url for the full file.
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Sure,

Open the ref.mov with Notepad, and along with a load of garbage characters there's a url:

http://progressive.stream.aol.com/turner/gl/hbo/cinemax/theatricals/max_starwars_tea2_384_dl.mov

Nice & Easy!

Save London’s Curzon Soho Cinema

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It's from a cut scene from the Boba Fett cartoon in the Holiday Special.
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Originally posted by: ocpmovie
Late reply.

I showed Skot this months ago, but a TV ad for the Holiday Special definitely turned up on Youtube. It advertised the special, as well as a show called Flying High.


Weirdly, now that I've posted this, I can't find the damn thing. Doesn't show up in a search for the Star Wars Holiday Special.


EDIT: Yep. Thank you Google caching. "This video has been removed at the request of copyright owner CBS Corporation because its content was used without permission"

2241 views before it was taken down. Yes indeed... mighty CBS, in all their wisdom, gave it the axe. I'm wondering if it was more due to copyright infringement or embarrassment?

I did a little checking into that as well. CBS actually regretted the decision to take those spots down, after they'd wised up and decided to partner with YouTube rather than fight with them. Check out this quote from CBS about it from the Wikipedia page on YouTube:

"Our inclination now is, the more exposure we get from clips like that, the better it is for CBS News and the CBS television network, so in retrospect we probably should have embraced the exposure, and embraced the attention it was bringing CBS, instead of being parochial and saying ‘let’s pull it down.’"

Quick change of tune, eh? Maybe they'll think twice about being so hasty next time.

The video was posted by user 8traxrule. You can PM him over at youtube.

He wrote: "Found this on a tape of the "Hawaii Five-O" that aired the night before (11/16/78). Wish I could find a copy of the special that looks this good. Did anyone tape the "Flying High" show that came on afterwards? ..."
I was in touch with 8traxrule previously, but lost touch after the spots got pulled. I'm trying to get hold of him again, but have not had much luck so far.


I'm thinking that wasting electricity turns people off.


I'm thinking I might be the first to say that it's good to see you here again. In the Star Wars ghetto, I mean.

--SKot

Projects:
Return Of The Ewok and Other Short Films (with OCPmovie) [COMPLETED]
Preserving the…cringe…Star Wars Holiday Special [COMPLETED]
The Star Wars TV Commercials Project [DORMANT]
Felix the Cat 1919-1930 early film shorts preservation [ONGOING]
Lights Out! (lost TV anthology shows) [ONGOING]
Iznogoud (1995 animated series) English audio preservation [ONGOING]

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I was in touch with 8traxrule previously, but lost touch after the spots got pulled. I'm trying to get hold of him again, but have not had much luck so far.


After reading about the holiday special promo, I did a bit of searching and found 8traxrule posting in the hometheatre forum, including a post discussing the promo being pulled from youtube
Look for the postings by Jesse Skeen (AKA 8traxrule), especially the one dated '07-28-2006, 10:22 PM'

Looks like he posts there regularly, so seems a likely way to try and get in touch with the guy.
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>>I 'm thinking I might be the first to say that it's good to see you here again.

Heheh. Thanks. Don't expect to see me here much - I'm never going to be a fan of what George is doing these days.
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Originally posted by: ocpmovie
>>I 'm thinking I might be the first to say that it's good to see you here again.


Word.
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There's a decent quality verison of the Shadows of the Empire commercial from 10 years ago available on starwars.com right now. Just an FYI.
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Here's another one for you. Take a look, and I swear to you, I am not making this up. This is an actual commercial for the HD airings on Cinemax.

Click

Damn you, Coldplay.
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Only REM's Everybody Hurts could have been worse.

Now excuse me, I'm crying my eyes out. Must get more Kleenex...
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Bumpity-Bump!

SW.com has posted a full version of the old anti-smoking PSA in pretty good quality. It would fit nicely here.
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It looks like the Drunk driving PSA is up on the official site as well.