FanFiltration

Last night and today we are working on the menus, and scaning in hundreds of pages of press kit info.

It's coming together.  I will post menu previews in a few days.

SilverWook said:

Might these help?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mirandaceleste/330733909/

 

http://therinofandor.blogspot.com/2007/07/deja-view-master-ive-long-wanted-to-do.html

 

Keep in mind Viewmaster was cheaping out during this period, and sometimes making "fake" 3-D out of already existing stills shot on the set. I was very dissappointed they did this with "The Black Hole", but happy they apparently did visit the TNG set and shoot real 3-D. (I have the TNG reels in my small collection.)

Thanks for this info, it's more then I had.  We very much want to find this for the extras.

I need some help finding the “Star Trek The Motion Picture” view master reels, or a list of the photos used. This would be for use in my Star Trek project.

Please PM me if you can help.

Nanner Split said:

What baffles me is that the Star Wars and Indiana Jones series have wonderful posters by Drew Struzan, but do they use them for the DVD covers? No!

I have the pre-THX Star Wars VHS boxset (the one before the Faces set, in other words) and they used this artwork on the boxes. Why can't they do this again?

Same thing with the Bond DVD & Blu-ray covers. It's sad.  They should just use the posters, everyone loves them.

Patrick McGoohan, the man who embodied hope over despair in the coolest way imaginable in the 1960s cult TV classic The Prisoner, has died--he was 80 years old.

Ricardo Montalban, the Mexican-born actor who became a star in splashy MGM musicals and later as the wish-fulfilling Mr. Roarke in TV's "Fantasy Island," died Wednesday morning at his home, a city councilman said. He was 88.

A sad day!

blonde_devil said:

hey, with the isolated score, what about using alternate takes?  i found a great torrent that had alternate versions of the score ( a lot of minor changes in arrangements) - it could be interesting to have an alternate version of Ilia's theme, the title, Goldsmith's original version of the Enterprise theme when we first see the ship itself, etc.

Thanks for the input.

Yes, that is also part of the plan. We are using mutiple ways of presenting the alternate versions of the music cues.

We just got our hands on a pre-release press kit, so that will also go along with the extras. This is in addition to the normal press kit.

DO IT!  

I am a huge fan of "Exorcist" and "Exorcist III", I would love to see what you come up with.

One of the best moments of humor in "Star Trek VI" was when the crew of the Enterprise had to answer a Klingon guard outpost in Klingonese, because the universal translator would be recognized.  And another great moment in the film series was in "The Wrath of Khan", when Saavik and Spock have a little personal conversation in their native Vulcan about Kirk being "So Human" . 

Thanks guys for the comments.  My hope is to please all the fans of this film.

I'm now working on the isolated score track, scaning in the press kit booklets, and other goodies.

I think that there will be room for the films audio to be in losless PCM format, but can't be sure till I get all the extras built into the DVD.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npHWX1dciOE&feature=channel_page

Just too funny!

My local (privately owned) mom and pop type video store just tripled the size of their blu-ray section.  I asked them how well they are renting, and they told me that Blu-ray is catching on nicely, and the demand for titles has been healthy.  

I just wanted to add some links to the best videos I've sen so far on this film.

http://www.spike.com/video/watchmen-comic-con/3076857

I think this movie is going to rock!  I don't know for sure, but I get a great feeling from all the footage and interviews I have seen so far (and the source graphic novel has allot to do with it too).  The complete opposite was true last year in regards to Indy 4, and how I felt about the trailers, interviews, and other promo footage that came out before that release.

I'm also happy to see that Jack Earle Haley is in Watchmen.  I saw him in a Broadway production of The Slab Boys back in the early 80's when on a high school class trip. He is one hell of a good actor. Sad that he does not get that much work on major films.

skyjedi2005 said:

How about fox may block watchmen ever being allowed to be released.

How do you like them apples?

How many fanboys are going to boycott and protest fox over that.

And will it hurt fox on the wolverine film if enough fans refuse to see that movie is watchmen is not released.

If and when the "Watchmen" film comes out on DVD, I see some great Fanedit possibilities here guys.  Below is some info taken from Wikipedia.



"Tales of the Black Freighter", a comic within the "Watchmen" comic, will be adapted as a direct-to-video animated feature, which will be released on March 11, 2009. It was originally included in the script,  but was cut due to budget restrictions, because the segment would have added $20 million to the budget, as Snyder wanted to film it in a stylized manner reminiscent of 300. Snyder considered including the animated film in the final cut, but the film was already approaching a three hour running time.  Gerard Butler, who starred in 300, voices the Captain in the film, having been promised a role in the film, which never materialized.

"The Tales of the Black Freighter" DVD will also include "Under the Hood", a documentary detailing the characters' backstories, which takes its title from that of Hollis Mason's memoirs in the graphic novel. The actors were allowed to improvise during filming interviews in character. The film itself is scheduled to be released on DVD four months after "Tales of the Black Freighter", and Warner Bros. is thought to be considering releasing an extended version, with the animated film edited back into the main picture. Snyder expected this final version will be three hours and twenty-five minutes long. In addition, a dozen short films (each around twenty minutes in length) will be released on the internet, using narration over animated panels of the comic strip to familiarize newcomers to the story. These may also be released on DVD. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchmen_(film)

Now if Warner Bros. does not do this, It might be fun to edit all this stuff together to make a super long Watchmen film. Or it may be possible to cut it into 12 Episodes.  We will just have to wait to see the finished film (and also what they plan to do with the DVD release of "Watchmen" that is set to follow the feature film 4 months later) to be sure. But I am up for doing this edit if Warner Bros. (or Fox) is not.

"Space is typically thought of as a very quiet place. But one team of astronomers has found a strange cosmic noise that booms six times louder than expected.

The roar is from the distant cosmos. Nobody knows what causes it.

Of course, sound waves can't travel in a vacuum (which is what most of space is), or at least they can't very efficiently. But radio waves can.

Radio waves are not sound waves, but they are still electromagnetic waves, situated on the low-frequency end of the light spectrum.

Many objects in the universe, including stars and quasars, emit radio waves. Even our home galaxy, the Milky Way, emits a static hiss (first detected in 1931 by physicist Karl Jansky). Other galaxies also send out a background radio hiss.

But the newly detected signal, described here today at the 213th meeting of the American Astronomical Society, is far louder than astronomers expected.

There is "something new and interesting going on in the universe," said Alan Kogut of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.

A team led by Kogut detected the signal with a balloon-borne instrument named ARCADE (Absolute Radiometer for Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Diffuse Emission).

In July 2006, the instrument was launched from NASA's Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility in Palestine, Texas, and reached an altitude of about 120,000 feet (36,500 meters), where the atmosphere thins into the vacuum of space.

ARCADE's mission was to search the sky for faint signs of heat from the first generation of stars, but instead they heard a roar from the distant reaches of the universe.

"The universe really threw us a curve," Kogut said. "Instead of the faint signal we hoped to find, here was this booming noise six times louder than anyone had predicted."

Detailed analysis of the signal ruled out primordial stars or any known radio sources, including gas in the outermost halo of our own galaxy.

Other radio galaxies also can't account for the noise – there just aren't enough of them.

"You'd have to pack them into the universe like sardines," said study team member Dale Fixsen of the University of Maryland. "There wouldn't be any space left between one galaxy and the next."

The signal is measured to be six times brighter than the combined emission of all known radio sources in the universe.

For now, the origin of the signal remains a mystery.

"We really don't know what it is,"said team member Michael Seiffert of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.

And not only has it presented astronomers with a new puzzle, it is obscuring the sought-for signal from the earliest stars. But the cosmic static may itself provide important clues to the development of galaxies when the universe was much younger, less than half its present age. Because the radio waves come from far away, traveling at the speed of light, they therefore represent an earlier time in the universe.

"This is what makes science so exciting," Seiffert said. "You start out on a path to measure something – in this case, the heat from the very first stars – but run into something else entirely, some unexplained."

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/0901...smic-noise.html

Did you guys see this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fu656gGkhI

dark_jedi said:

FanFiltration said:

Sorry for the delay, but we found a few places where the audio went out of synch.  We fixed them, but we are giving it a few more test watchings to make sure it is 100%.  You don't know how tired I am of seing this movie over and over. *GRIN*

When I got done with my DUNE fan edit, I did not watch that entire movie again till the Phineasbg and Nighthawks fan edit came out.

 

Just give me a little more time to get this STTMP edit out to you guys.  It will be worth the extra few days wait.

 

FF

is it still going to be an Xvid version first?

and if so,how long at a guestimate would it be for a DVD release?

I am going to wait for the DVD.

Thanks FF

 

I hope to get it out on DVD in like 3 weeks.  The Xvid would most likely be available for D/L a week or two before that (I hope). 

Right now I am asking for help on how to burn this sucker to a DVD-9 (Dual Layer).  I have never been good with this part of the process.  I can edit video and audio fine, but when it comes to the DVD creation and splitting files up for RapidShare, I'm just clueless.  

FF

Sorry for the delay, but we found a few places where the audio went out of synch.  We fixed them, but we are giving it a few more test watchings to make sure it is 100%.  You don't know how tired I am of seing this movie over and over. *GRIN*

When I got done with my DUNE fan edit, I did not watch that entire movie again till the Phineasbg and Nighthawks fan edit came out.

Just give me a little more time to get this STTMP edit out to you guys.  It will be worth the extra few days wait.

FF

THANKS!

I looked at the file, and I am now more excited then ever about this project.

I knew you guys would do a great job, but what I see in your preview file is simply phenomenal!

This is looking so great.  Keep up the good work.

MGM is now posting full movies on youtube. Today I saw a film that I have wanted to see for years called "Inspector Clouseau" from 1969. You have to give MGM credit for giving us some free movies via the internet. 

Now these are in no way the best movies from their vaults, but what the hell it's free.

Some other films they are posting at this time are...

dark_jedi said:

FanFiltration said:

The Xvid master of the Special Longer Version in widescreen is DONE & TESTED!

We will get this up in a few days. 

 

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

 

That is good to hear,so how much longer until a DVD version,I am not a fan of the xvid versions,that is why I am holding out on Toalar's Superman to.

but thanks alot for all you are doing,so did you make it anamorphic?

 

Well I hope to get a DVD out in a month.  There are  a lot of extras to put together.  The DVD version will be anamorphic.

The Xvid master of the Special Longer Version in widescreen is DONE & TESTED!

We will get this up in a few days. 

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Thanks for the update Mitch.  When you guys relese this baby, it's gona be the event of the season!