Chaotic Catastrophes

Amazing news!

jdaering said:

Please delete this post

Don’t crush our hopes!

Wow! I just watched your rough cuts for section 1 and 3 and I’m absolutely blown away. This will be the best video on the subject by far. The only videos that come close are your original comparisons. Sure, people have pointed out the odd mistake here and there but overall this is fantastic! Like oojason said, Neither section feels that long. The odd bit of humor was nice and the presentation was great (especially for a rough cut). Can’t wait to see the finished result.

Just looking to see if anyone has the famous ‘Phantom Edit’ by Mike J. Nichols. Any kind of link or source would be much appreciated!

This is amazing! I can’t believe someone actually has some sort of physical print of Captain EO considering it would have only been available at the Disney parks. In the listing, the seller says, “this motion picture reel was left over from its production in 1986.” What if this is a raw film reel straight out of the camera! I don’t know what to think of this but I hope someone has the money and time so we could see what’s on it! Amazing find!

If you’re looking for a way to watch Captain EO in it’s original aspect ratio, the best fan restoration I’ve found is the one done by Notelu. They combined a low quality widescreen version with a slightly higher quality VHS capture from when it aired on MTV. It isn’t much compared to something like this but it is something.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3E4hVrpx04

Here is a VHS recording of ROTJ plus Knights of the Round Table and a bunch of other stuff I found on the Internet Archive. Uploaded by Windsinger.
Link: https://archive.org/details/vhs-tape-return-of-the-jedi-knights-of-the-round-table-rockin-comix-paris-spys

Maybe it’s because these are the covers I grew up with but I really like the '97 special edition covers. I’m personally not a fan of the special editions when compared to the unaltered versions but these covers really work for me. The only gripe I have with these is the use of the “Empire Strikes Back” Duel on the “Return of the Jedi” cover and the use of the Emperor from “Return of the Jedi” in the “Empire Strikes Back” cover. I don’t pay much attention to these issues because overall I feel the presentation is among the best of any of the posters.

@grafxuser Was the distribution company named Westlake Entertainment Group by any chance?

grafxuser said:

Sadly I have just looked up the particular film distribution company who put forward the copyright complaint/issue to youtube and going by the web they still have distribution rights to it.

I am a little bit miffed since I had put the time, effort and a little bit of funding into edited some of the scenes to make them more clean and fluent on the audio and motion front.

It’s just one of those things I suppose 😦

Note from wikipedia…

The film is mistakenly believed to be in the public domain, when in reality it has a proper copyright notice in the end credits.

I’m pretty sure that copyright expired a while back because if it hadn’t I don’t think that so many different versions would exist out in the wild and I bet you we’d also have an actual good copy of the widescreen version

grafxuser said:

Hi Everyone,

Sadly I have had to put this on hold, since I have just had a copyright strike from youtube about a previous upscaled 16:9 version and it has been taken down. So I am guessing it would be the same for a new proper scale 16:9 version!

From my understanding this was free from copyright rules/laws but apparently not!

Sorry everyone 😦

I’ve literally seen the whole movie on YT! Darn YouTube always throwin’ strikes out left and right. I’d recommend trying Dailymotion if you attempt to upload again.

So I just found this on YouTube…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVcwNzI2i3o&t=24s

I can tell by the opening that it is the theatrical cut of the film. I have no idea how this person got a hold of it or where it came from but it’s only the first 9 minutes of the film and it was the only video this channel uploaded so I’m not sure what this means… I started working on the reconstruction using the “Horrors of the Red Planet” cut along with the original trailer featuring the original title in 720p… That trailer is better quality than this mystery upload I found so I’m going to stick with that but this video is an amazing reference for the fades and cuts in the opening sequence.

If anyone has any more information on the film or happens to be good at up-scaling, the help would be greatly appreciated. 😃

So I’ve recently been looking into this film called “The Wizard of Mars” and let me tell you, this film has little to no information on it other than some quick facts about the people who were involved in the making of it.

I’m wondering if anyone has any information on it or if any prints or transfers of the original “theatrical” cut still exist.

The highest quality print I could find is from some crappy DVD release that seemed to have taken the 1988 “Horrors of the Red Planet” release of the film and slapped it on a disc.

Any help in finding and possibly restoring this film would be greatly appreciated.

grafxuser said:

Hi Chaotic Catastrophes,

Sorry for late reply. But I am still working on it and fitting it in with spare time.

Also purchased a laserdisc version and sending it off to be captured, just to see if I can get another version to work with 😃

Hey! Sounds good! Can’t wait to see the final product! =D

@grafxuser Any updates on your project?

Chase Adams said:

Is the 2004 removal of the '97 added scream when Luke is falling the only time Lucas has completely removed a change he made?

I think so… Unless you count all his tweaks to previously added and twisted scenes. 😕

Adaman Kenobi said:

Chaotic Catastrophes said:

The only things good to come out of the SE IMO was the Wampa additions and Ian McDiarmid… That’s about it. I wish we could get some sort of home video release that’s like a “make your own Star Wars” kinda thing. IDK… Just my thoughts on the matter.

You mean like select the version of each altered scene you want and it plays it for you? Thatd be cool. It’s too bad no one could legitmately do that as a business for fans and prodice a custom edit based on multiple options.

Too bad… Too bad indeed…

JadedSkywalker said:

Is the Laserdisc worth it for ones own private collection if they can get it for 35 dollars? The Japanese release i mean.

I have the VHS somewhere. But i seem to have misplaced it.

I mean if you want it just for your collection sure but if it’s for the widescreen version I was able to get a download link from a YouTube user neamed “liscensetodrive” who made a test video of it much earlier. All credit goes to that dude.
Slipstream Widescreen: https://www.youtube.com/redirect?q=http%3A%2F%2Fhaku.co.uk%2Fvideo%2FSlipstream.Japanese.widescreen.LD.1989.avi&stzid=UgjPHvnwAZzdtngCoAEC.7-H0Z7-Pd2C99zrh16Urg_&redir_token=2hHHWJc3ekJEepm225m_hINM6iF8MTU5Mjc3NzIwMEAxNTkyNjkwODAw&event=comments
liscensetodrive YT Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDRb_n2F1M795rPnRHemg5Q

grafxuser said:

Just a minor question.

With me merging the widescreen Japanese laserdisc and English dvd. Will there be any legal issues with me placing it on youtube?

Although there is a copyright notice in the credits, I’m pretty sure that is expired since I’ve seen Slipstream on YouTube multiple times. You should be fine. 😃

The only things good to come out of the SE IMO was the Wampa additions and Ian McDiarmid… That’s about it. I wish we could get some sort of home video release that’s like a “make your own Star Wars” kinda thing. IDK… Just my thoughts on the matter.

Hey! I’m basically just here because I’m a huge fan of Star Wars and think the original versions need to be preserved… Also I want to see a remastered widescreen version of Slipstream (1989)