Fan made SilverScreen Edition Artwork posted on TheStarWarsTrilogy.com’s facebook page - I don’t know about you but I like it!
Looks great! …would it be alright for me to borrow it and make a few minor modifications?
I’m sorry.
Why can’t I, too, escape through death? …it’s all the Donald’s fault. He will PAY.
Honestly, I’d just give up on the whole project. It’s hopeless without such a key player.
Would you dial back the negative waves? They finished principal photography on Episode 8 you know.
Good! But they’ll have to cancel Episode 9.
Honestly, I’d just give up on the whole project. It’s hopeless without such a key player.
I… I wish I were dead too…
If yoy really feel that way, please get help.
Alright… I will…
I… I wish I were dead too…
I knew this would happen! :’(
According to Debbie Reynolds, Carrie’s now in a stable condition. Good! I hope she holds out!
I fear they may still.
Well I can tell you I definitely won’t be able to relax and enjoy Christmas with this going on!
I would not be surprised if they were true.
Right, that’s it… no more Christmas, ever. Chances of Carrie’s death now are far too high.
I think R1 really tells us something about the futility of war in general.
It’s like War and Remembrance in space! In all seriousness though… this film is definitely more hard-hitting than the other Star Wars films… by the end, everybody’s dead, and two planets have been nuked. By the Death Star no less! Its lowest setting is equal to that of a million A-bombs! And that’s saying something!
That said, I loved how they brought back Angus Macinnes, James Earl Jones, and especially Peter Cushing for this one.
Er… I’d kind of forgotten about it.
I’ve had to ask for at least three so far, and I haven’t received one!
I shall join you there momentarily.
That’s a first.
Hm?
I shall join you there momentarily.
Just discovered this today. Amazing. Haven’t read the thread yet so forgive me if it’s been said, but I really hope ESB and ROTJ are planned to get similar treatment too! There’s been so many outright amazing projects on the original film in recent years sometimes it feels like the sequels are almost forgotten.
Nevertheless, GREAT JOB!!! Can’t wait to see the finished project. I really need a raise so I can start upgrading my equipment to both get and watch all this new stuff! I still have to trek over to a friends house just to burn a single layer BD…
I could be wrong, but I think Poita is the next port of call for a good ESB restoration. He’s already got some terrific tests up on his own thread.
Let’s hope so! I just went back to the drive with the original ESB scan on it and it just died. One minute it was readable and I was checking out the scans, the next it’s making some mechanical grinding noises and, well that’s that. Can’t run any diagnostics on it because it no longer shows up as a connected drive (tried multiple ways). Probably the control arm is stuck. I doubt you’ll be surprised to learn that it was a cheap Seagate drive. Also on there was the original LPP scan, but I had backups of that. I didn’t have backups of the ESB files (though other people do). So, I guess I won’t be testing out Dre’s tools on that scan any time soon. It might not matter though. I don’t actually know which scan was used for the Grindhouse version so it might well have been this one.
Well that really is too bad. Turns out the one that failed on me was also a Seagate. Still bugs me!
Wow… it’s like I’m really there.
Ah, Star Wars has never looked better!
That seriously does look a lot better.
You ain’t whistling Dixie. When I started out, even the idea of an amateur scan of a 35 in 272i would have been laughable.
It was just a few years ago that people here relentlessly ridiculed the very idea of a 35mm scan.
Ah, how times change! Seems like we can do anything if we put our minds to it.
I’m really curious to know, which home video release first introduced the red cast in the bar? It really changes the atmosphere.
I recently bought the first laserdisc release from 1984. However, I don’t own a laserdisc player, so I should have it transfered to dvd. It’s pan and scan, but I guess it still has some historic significance.
That’s the first home video release. I have the VHS version, I’ll track it down and take a look. The next transfer was in 1991 for the widescreen LD and VHS, I’ll check that too.
The scenes in 1981 making of have the correct color.
Did you get a chance to take a look at those home video releases?
I did find my original Raiders VHS from 1983. Unfortunately the bar scene doesn’t play anymore, it is all static. Some parts do play, and wow it’s amazing how bad the quality is. But I remember getting it as a kid and watching it repeatedly and thinking it looked great.
Anyway, I couldn’t see enough to determine the color. I do have another later VHS copy of the same transfer (they used that transfer from 1983 to 1992). I’ll try to find that. I also have the 1992 LD somewhere (the second home video transfer), I’ll try to find it.
litemakr, just wondered - did you ever watch/record the 1986 ABC premiere of ROTLA and if so, how does the colour (and the pan & scanning) compare to the home video releases of the time?
I did see it and actually videotaped it at the time. ABC used the same master as the 1983 VHS and laserdisc version. That was the only version used for home video, cable or broadcast until the 1992 widescreen laserdisc, which was a new transfer. A pan and scan of that transfer was used for broadcast until the 2003 DVD.
Raiders video transfers:
1981 Making of special and Great Movie Stunts special (clips)
1983 VHS, Betamax and Laserdisc
1992 Laserdisc and VHS (widescreen and pan and scan)
2003 DVD and VHS (widescreen and pan and scan) HD version used for HD broadcasts
2011(?) 4K restoration (Japanese wowow broadcasts, 30th anniversary screenings)
2012 Blu-Ray
Now that’s a thought, what edits were made to the TV version, if any?
