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nocomments87 said:

The Green Hornet episodes that are online were actually capped from the Encore Action channel, back when they were airing the show. The Action logo pops up only once or twice for like 15 seconds, and again during the end credits, but for the most part, it's a logo-free presentation. Also, for the most part, the episodes are unedited, except for the first episode (missing epilogue...syndicated cuts have it intact for some reason) and the Part 1 recaps on all Part 2 episodes.

I don't know, I'll have to check when I get home, but I'm pretty sure they didn't have any watermark during the credits, and they did have the recaps and the epilogues. And I checked, and the show was released on LD, so it would make sense...but I'll double check, just to be sure.

bkev said:

I didn't know that the TV Land rips had time cuts... :( shame, they were fairly good quality.

The US TV Land eps are cut, yeah. They run around 20-22 minute per episode, instead of around 25 minutes per episode. The Canadian TV Land episodes are just as good quality, if not better (mine are AVIs, so not an ideal comparison). Most of them don't have the "In Color" bumper, or "next week's villain", but that's more of a novelty than anything. I watched all of the villain bumpers on YouTube, rather underwhelming.

So I've managed to get the rest of the episodes from season 3 downloaded, still need those 50 from season 2. Maybe we should throw these up on MySpleen.

msycamore said:

Negative1, what's exactly the reason behind the low detail in your posted 35mm frames? They look extremely noise reduced.

Straight from the horse's mouth: "the 720p versions went from the original image to wmv, then (i think) to xvid ... we'll try to get files together with less compression steps, that does eat up a ton of detail"

Those frames you're referring to look exactly how I imagine JPG screen grabs of an nth generation XviD would look. No mystery here ;)

ChainsawAsh said:

Holy shit, where do I sign up?

PM -1 ;)

FrederikOlsen said:

Yeah, at this point, it's awfully clear that all the talk about the original "not looking good" is just a bunch of corporate bullshit.

Well, he wasn't lying to us, that speeder shot does look awfully grainy. However, I'd wager that those first few R2/3PO shots in the desert are equally bad, and have seen nowhere near the amount of cleanup (pre-SE).

On a related note, this previous bootleg is available officially: http://www.wbshop.com/Legends-of-the-Super-Heroes-1979/1000180131,default,pd.html

"Jake Lloyd according to Jake Lloyd"

Love it. Print it. Ship it. Sell it.

There was a thread for this already, but it’s in the “fan edits” section for some reason, so I thought I’d paste it over here. Sort of a half request, half just trying to get some discussion going on this topic. I think it’s very strange that out of all of the preservation projects going on, and all of the sharing that we do, the majority of people are perfectly okay with shelling out big bucks for Batman bootlegs (especially when they make themselves even more illegal by including bootlegs of The Movie, Bat-Mania, and Return to the Batcave!).

Anyway, here’s the paste, with some additions at the end:

Wondering if anyone can help me find the Canadian TV Land caps, or I’d even settle for the Masters.

I found torrents, but the first 50 episodes of season 2 are from US TV Land (only worse; even more cuts for some reason, and way lower quality than the torrent at MySpleen). I found another set of torrents, but they were all in Italian.

…and for the time being, it looks like two of these are stuck, so I’m also missing episodes 320, 321, 322, 323, and 326 =/ (update: slowly working them up a few percentages, but still no 100% in sight. 88.8% on one and rising, 95.5% I think on the other. UPDATE #2: All torrents 100%! Seeding like crazy!)

I found another torrent, with “FOX” watermarks in the upper-right corner. I can’t remember if these were the Italian ones or not. I think they were, either that or they were edited. I just remember checking them real quick and ditching them.

Found a really great torrent with The Green Hornet in it (~180 MB AVIs), looks like they’re captured from Laserdisc. There’s a moderate amount of interlacing going on, and the typical rainbowing, but other than that, the quality’s pretty darn good. Too bad Batman never made it to LD (though I wonder if they even would’ve managed every single episode).

In the interest of turning this into a serious thread, I suppose I could post some screen grabs or something, if there’s any interest.

Wondering if anyone can help me find the Canadian TV Land caps, or I'd even settle for the Masters.

I found torrents, but the first 50 episodes of season 2 are from US TV Land (only worse; even more cuts for some reason, and way lower quality than the torrent at MySpleen). I found another torrent, but they were all in Italian.

...and for the time being, it looks like two of these are stuck, so I'm also missing episodes 320, 321, 322, 323, and 326 =/

And I don't want to spend a ridiculous amount of money on some 30+ disc bootleg set that comes with "bonus disc" copies of legit DVDs.

TServo2049 said:

What do you think of my idea to cut the print up into six reels if your equipment can't take 1200'? As I said before, seeing as the film is on two reels, I have a hunch that they split it at the change between reels 3 and 4.

Maybe this info was there before, but he says it was four 600' reels spliced together, not six 400' reels.

I don't know much about film, but maybe it would be less difficult to just un-splice them again?

The GOUTKILLER strikes again!!

MrBrown said:

As its stated for the US BD: The mono track is not affected.

The mono track is supposed to be the original theatrical audio, so there you go, problem solved ;)

From what I gather it's the DVD that doesn't have the original audio track.

none said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbe-RsOHwsE

This is the best.

Yeah, that's just lots of JPG compression.

Laserschwert said:

Man, I'd love to get my hands on the raw capture of that shot and the fly-by... cleaning up the JSC fly-by for Harmy's version was a challenge, but it might be a bit easier with a higher res source.

Well, the thing is...if/when this project gets released, Harmy won't need to despecialize the Special Edition anymore ;)

I'm beginning to wonder if there's a reason they call them BluRays...

georgec said:

What do the subtitles have to do with who shot first?

My goodness, is this what it's come to? Having to prove that Han shot first? There's nothing to prove. Han shot first. It's on film.

Han never shot first, and the subtitles were never white. You were just confused.

...because George knew back in the mid '70s that home video would be a big thing some day.

I noticed the other day that Sheldon (Big Bang Theory) has a shirt with this pattern on it. I couldn't stop myself from saying "You know, interesting story about that shirt..." ¬_¬

Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda said:

My first impression of ROTP is that the colors are pretty darned close right out the gate.

I was thinking the same thing, it looks pretty good right out of the box.

But then again, I'm of the opinion that a lot of you guys fuss and fret about the colors far too much. Especially when we have so few original colors to compare to, you'd think something like low-fade film stock would be "the source", instead of trying to tweak everything to look like the blown-out VHS sets we grew up on.

Heck, I thought the Puggo Strikes Back colors were fine... ¬_¬ But maybe I've just been watching too many of the public domain shorts from Rifftrax lately.

SilverWook said:

Those of you who really want a '81 ANH print transferred, figure out how to overcome the 400ft reel limitation of Puggo's 8mm gear.

I thought the Super 8s were of the '77?

When you think about it, the "wolfman" hand is wrong in more than one way.

It's his left arm that got severed, but that's a right hand, isn't it?

BTW Puggo, I might've asked this before, but are there any plans to do an ANH '81 preservation? You said those were on low-fade, right?

greenpenguino said:

I know what it means...

 Yeah, we've all seen Family Guy ;)

Awesome news, BTW. Awesome frame grabs, too.

Well, this version of ESB sure is interesting. I'm sure Puggo and the 35mm will beat the pants off of it, but it's neat to watch.

Sure is a lot of pink in the first reel or so.

msycamore said:

Forget the colors for a moment, just take a look at how this capture compares to the GOUT and my Technidisc capture in clarity and detail.

Yeah, but as I said before, the sharpness in the SWE feels very artificial to me.

That is a tiny bit of an improvement, but I think I still prefer the Technidisc.

Easiest shot for me to check was his bundle of rope hitting the ground at the beginning...

...and the intro credits, which I already confirmed ;)

I just don't know if this is the same master as the SE, or a new one.

But it's gone now =(