Chillye

Hi guys, I was scrolling through eBay recently, and I noticed that there is a 35mm print of The Phantom Menace for sale. It has Russian dubbed sound, but it also has English DTS sound. Here is the link if you would like to check it out: https://www.ebay.com/itm/305401104335?itmmeta=01HRW3KFQVANH3PG09RWNRB3V5&hash=item471b5307cf:g:78EAAOSw0Jll2lOd&itmprp=enc%3AAQAIAAAA8JoxxW7aSgPsdJzBEtohI4vKIxBx%2BuVYjfRrl4TUQD2UNWyM%2F%2BpKxrlyW6%2FHrBMkXO0mDRWzZm%2F2wgcYICse0HXYgkJ4rUlwM3PV7Q4uLUeJrRkE0O3qSbNT1p%2F5y%2FSveJTpkN9WdkELHtyzIE7FX4RPCi3RGho2ctGDMwibj9xanBd3eILndXX37JAAo7p%2FESfn5Os4hiYKT7ax8JSuv4DyeYnkknfPQXlhM8XNeasHSHo1ERU%2BxeacJQYfG0nCmw3imj0GEE6xwJ922gkN6t%2F2GeB18Kxq8ZDtcgboqOfFmP0JwPkjAvDy4FWYiW5%2F0g%3D%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR4L8zYPHYw

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There is no VHS release that excludes the title “A New Hope”. The only home release that has the actual theatrical version is the 2006 bonus disc.

I call it “Star Wars”, since that is what the film was called when it was first released theatrically. But for some people who don’t know what I am talking about, that is when I refer to it as “A New Hope”.

My preferred way of watching it is Harmy’s Despecialized Editions. About every once in a while I will watch the Special Editions.

Hi, I am looking for an edited version of the film “The Transformers: The Movie”. The edited version had a Star Wars like opening crawl after the kaleidoscope sequence at the beginning, Spike’s swear is muted, and at the end, the narrator states that “Optimus Prime will return.” The only home media release I know that has this specific version was the 1999 Rhino Home Video VHS release. All of the other releases are the original theatrical version.

towne32 said:

Highest quality versions would be the SD broadcast rips, I believe?

Harmy made a reconstruction of the 1997 Special Edition version of A New Hope, and Team Negative 1 made a 4K upscale of a theater used 35mm Special Edition print of A New Hope, too.

Link to Harmy’s reconstruction of the 1997 Special Edition version of A New Hope:
https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Harmys-STAR-WARS-Respecialized-Edition-97-AVCHD-and-MKV-Released/id/16682/page/1

So where can I watch this print at?

MonkeyLizard10 said:

This print has been up there for months and months at this point.
I wonder what a typical price for a U.S. SE print is.

Yeah, that’s a question that I think about sometimes, too. My guess would be about $500 to $1,000 maybe, since the original print is more valuable than the Special Edition print.

Yeah, ok. Good point. Like you said, there are multiple prints out there that have been restored and posted online, such as Team Negative 1’s 4K77 Project. I didn’t know that there was damage on the print when I looked at the pictures. Thanks for your reply.

Hi guys, I recently was looking on eBay, and I found a 35mm print of A New Hope for sale. One thing I would like to mention is that the seller specified that this print is a version with the addition of the title “Episode IV, A New Hope”, but it doesn’t specify if it is a print that is the 1981 version or the 1997 Special Edition version. Here is the link if you want to check it out: https://www.ebay.com/itm/314164614181?hash=item4925ab9425:g:GK4AAOSwq~JjMzU7&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAA4Kq%2Fz%2BRbr6ZcKp1lRCSYeIV8W76y3VXsD1ZTLmdfNMTxDLJkb3HlpeU8WEx5MNyQ8IhVgmxWkz%2Fj559in1xbhj%2FUqJmJv2ux3r599Pn3OdlnTpMxHu0LDHvjqX%2FcRS2iH8nZBOdqHTMKEhJOVip2RbNQOj88NyZ842Ljt6Y1Z9mTt5l1MAWjJiSfh7EGN9rUp2NoXtpxGse66E6gsEiGL6byaqnMkIays9xsgwJ1K%2BjyGFzJxU9bEcIBvUeqVtHZOW4j8J0RAjHhMsZeRcy%2BkfDwMI2Ywcw4tGP%2BJyX2TkIj|tkp%3ABk9SR6SZztPYYg

Honestly, ESB’s Special Edition wasn’t horrible at all! A lot of the changes were actually good, such as actually seeing the Wampa creature, changing the walls in Cloud City, and getting Ian McDiarmid to portray the emperor. Overall, ESB was the only movie who’s Special Edition changes were good.

I really hope that this version can resurface on the internet again! That is great that we have the audio from this version, so we can at least tell the differences from this version from the final cut.

I hope that they do! That would be great if Disney would do that, considering that a lot of the Star Wars prints, (such as the lost 70mm print of The Empire Strikes Back, the IMAX print of Attack of the Clones, and the 1997 version of the Special Edition) have not been publicly released on any home media. But we all know that George Lucas will not let Disney release the original versions, so my guess it that it is unlikely that they will.

Puggo - Jar Jar’s Yoda said:

I have never posted my restorations anywhere. I just did the restorations, shared with a small number of people, and one of them posted it. So I don’t know the answer to your question.

Oh, ok. So if the other restorations get taken down, where can I find them then? All I know is that there are some clips of the restorations you did that were uploaded on YouTube.

timdiggerm said:

Chillye said:

timdiggerm said:

I mean it was a free, publicly available copy of a copyrighted work. That’s illegal.

Yeah, that’s a good answer. But it was on Internet Archive though. My guess is that maybe Puggo took it down or it violated Community Guidelines.

Or Disney finally told the IA to take it down. Or the IA is upping their enforcement in light of their recent lawsuit issues.

I also forgot to mention that Puggo’s other 16mm preservations, such as Star Wars, and The Empire Strikes Back, are still up on Internet Archive though.

timdiggerm said:

Chillye said:

timdiggerm said:

I mean it was a free, publicly available copy of a copyrighted work. That’s illegal.

Yeah, that’s a good answer. But it was on Internet Archive though. My guess is that maybe Puggo took it down or it violated Community Guidelines.

Or Disney finally told the IA to take it down. Or the IA is upping their enforcement in light of their recent lawsuit issues.

Yeah, that is also a pretty good theory, too. I might have to PM Puggo about it and ask him why it got taken down.

timdiggerm said:

I mean it was a free, publicly available copy of a copyrighted work. That’s illegal.

Yeah, that’s a good answer. But it was on Internet Archive though. My guess is that maybe Puggo took it down or it violated Community Guidelines.

Hi guys, I noticed that Puggo’s 16mm preservation of Return of The Jedi got taken down on Internet Archive. Can anyone explain why? Here’s the link to it: https://archive.org/details/ROTJ16mm