InvisibleWolfMan

Hope this helps:

- short clip of CHASE THE ACE when the one boy escapes on his bike just after the other boy is run over by the steamroller

- short clip of CHASE THE ACE after the newlywed wife screams "Get in! Get in!"

- longer clip of CHASE THE ACE after the newlywed wife screams "Look out!"

- short clip of SINK THE PINK when the jukebox breaks down, which takes place after the discussion that Bill and Brett about the island of Haven (approx. 54 minutes in)

LOL....Paypal told me "Your donation is complete."and I then changed Vader's words to Obi-Wan immediately in my head to

"Your donation is now complete. When I left you, I was but the reader; now I am the donator."

Good luck, Ady!  I will donate again in future...

http://www.amazon.fr/Bandits-bandits-Collector-2-DVD/dp/B0002WYEJY/ref=sr_1_4?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1294508321&sr=1-4

I'm sure that's the one you are refering to.  I can check around if any of my friends can confirm the region status of the Blu-Ray.

I believe I have RAIN MAN (R2) at home...so long as it didn't get taken in the divorce.  No matter though, easy enough to find another.

If any picture could describe how the events of last year that have continued onto this year has made me feel, then this picture says it ALL.  I could spend a whole long time pouring out heart and soul here but that's unnecessary.  I'd rather get to the point and be direct as I can be.

After a 15 year relationship which included 11 and a half years of marriage, I find myself split with my soon-to-be-ex-wife and believe me when I tell you it's been "survival of the fittest" on my end seeing as it couldn't have happened at a worse time (thank you very much, world economy) and seeing as I am living abroad in a country not my own...I've got bigger hills and challenges than ever before.  And this doesn't even BEGIN to scratch the surface at the level of insanity that began a year ago and although winding down, finds interesting ways to keep me guessing where to avoid the pitfalls of failure.  In short, it sucks to be IWM at the moment...

But I feel fine. :)

The good news is that I retain much of what was my half of the project.  The great news is that ThrowgnCpr has all the scans I could manage and various other bits I sent so if I can't find something he most likely has it.  The disappointing news is that it WILL take time to get the ball rolling again.  I'm using a laptop that 4 years old already so there's no way that I can do editing on my end with video.  I won't abandon this project, as I gave it my all and I want to see it to the end...God willing.  The bad news is that I had to make a choice about a special contest I was going to include as part of the release where I'd send out some GREMLINS related prizes...and that was that there's no way I could afford to mail out the prizes I had.  Plus, with the lack of work...I had to make a choice and sell off a specific amount of those prizes though it really killed me.  Thankfully, it paid a few bills and eased my situation which at the time really reminded me of how Billy must have felt seeing Stripe jumping into the YMCA swimming pool.

I still have the audio transfers for the HARDEE'S record set and I'm going to get in touch with ThrowgnCpr and see what we've still got for materials between the two of us and we'll take it from there.

Kind Regards,

InvisibleWolfMan

I wish I could help out in some way.  Sadly, donations are a no-go for me ATM since I'm barely working part-time now and finances are tight.  I hope you get enough donations to finish this project  Adywan because I feel....well, this picture says it best:

UPDATE:

First off, I'd like to apologize for the lack of updates in quite some time.  ThrowgnCpr has been quite busy with several things on his end (much of it including his current studies) and I have been concentrating quite hard with losing weight and excercising.  As of September of 2008, I weighed 134 kilos (aka 295 lbs / 21 Stone ) and I was NOT feeling the best of health at all.  As a result, I began to eat better and exercise more.  That and a fluxuating work schedule (thanks to the unstable world economy) began to eat into the efforts we were putting into MEGA MADNESS.  As of today, I now weigh 99 kilos (aka 218 lbs / 15.5 Stone) and feel lots better.  Now that ThrowgnCpr's schedule is slowly lightening up, we are aiming to get MEGA MADNESS back on track.

Uncanny Antman did us a great favor and gave us an edit of the single red GREMLINS read-along which was available in every normal department store and included photos from the movie.  Kudos to him and his great effort, because it REALLY captures an energy we were hoping for and makes not only the read-along more interesting, but also breathes new life into seeing GREMLINS presented this way.

A friend of mine sent me this:

Which is early concept art for the original GREMLINS by artist Mike Ploog.  If you don't know Mike, then check out wikipedia's entry for him:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Ploog

In the meantime, TrowgnCpr and I are in discussions on how to proceed from here and finish in a more timely fashion.  Again, I'm sorry for the delays but real life got in the way.  However, it doesn't mean this project has to die...it just needed a rest before we continue on the way!

Yes, that is the Rowman set.  I have it myself.

You mean this one?

http://cgi.ebay.com/THE-THREE-CABALLEROS-and-SALUDOS-AMIGOS-3-Laserdisc-LD_W0QQitemZ190280763970QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUS_Laserdisc?hash=item190280763970&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1205|66%3A2|65%3A12|39%3A1|240%3A1318|301%3A1|293%3A1|294%3A50

Regarding Saludos Amigos I can carefully go through my R2 DVD and see if it actually made it there or not.

I've been DLing this for 4 days now.  It was touch and go at first but I would get good speeds for a decent amount of time.  I don't know who is seeding the torrent I got, but I'm amazed that out of 3 seeders ahead of me I'm not getting even 1 kb at the moment.....yet I'm uploading almost 60kb.  I've been stuck at 95.4% since about 9am my time this morning, and that was over 9 hours ago from the moment I post this message....

Would love this version...someone got it?

 No one has done it that I'm aware of. There's also another problem that should be addressed with the UNRATED version of DUMB & DUMBER.  That is "The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead" performed by Crash Test Dummies is missing.  The song should play the first time we see Harry and Lloyd inside Dante's just as they begin to argue whether or not they should eat the hot tamales.  And I'd like to see the scenes involving the boyfriend in the trunk reinserted as they were quite good.

MAJOR Update

Without revealing my source....I have a NEARLY PRISTINE, clean copy of Goldsmith's score for GREMLINS.  Can you say "Music Only Audio Track?"

Well, we can all speculate to no end who "ratted" out FE.org, but I don't think it matters too much in the end.  It just was finally the right person who didn't mind being a rat. 

If I had to make an educated guess, I would say it's been the recent article about Adywayn's edit where they mention FE.org and that you need to "own the original to download ANH:R."  Either that, or someone else was just searching around randomly and stumbled across it.  To that "special" rat individual:

This indeed saddens me to a degree, but I'm realistic enough in my thoughts to realize to a specific degree that at some point SOMEONE was BOUND to complain.  I see this forthcoming change as a window opening near the door that was just closed....

All things aside, the debate over the Tie Fighters have GOTTA end.  Honestly, it's not like Ady's throwing away a perfect recipe for curing cancer.....it's an EDIT!  It's no different than GL himself has done MANY times since the initial run of SW.  Things are taken out, replaced, changed...etc., etc., etc. and there are many out there who embrace changes while others cannot think of ANY OTHER version of SW except the one(s) they saw in theaters the first time. 

Fine.  Good.  Awesome. TERRIFIC. 

In case it's been forgotten, this place has about 12 KerBILLION edits of 6 movies....and probably over 90% of them involve the GOUT.  Ady's determination and decisions made his SW:R edit what it is, and if the overwhelming feedback is correct then at some point he'll decide he needs to draw a line and whether we like it or not that's what it will be.  A few pages back I asked about something being done with the AT-ST's (remove them OR make them more of a threat somehow).  If Ady never even remotely considers the notion, then that's just another decision he made and for good or bad I will watch ESB:R and enjoy all 99.99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999% of the rest of the edit.  In the end, my suggestion is a drop in Ady's LARGE pool of ideas...the same as anyone else's.  If they cause a ripple effect and Ady adjust the level and flow of the pool then that's great.  If it turns out that suggestion drops onto a thin sheet of ice that's suddenly formed over the surface of the water, then even though it doesn't get through doesn't mean that the pool's gone dry.  It just means that there are other ideas that might hit a spot that doesn't have that thin layer of ice over it.

Come on now, let's all kiss and make up!

vbangle said:

Adywan's already given you his answer.. STOP ALREADY PLEASE. Stop being a complete douche bag and let it go already.

Adywan has already told you what he's doing. All the examples and "To adywan, they look bad in 1980 ESB, but I just can't see it... arguments are not going to change anything...

For fuck's sake you are annoying...

 

Good job, vbangle!

Unless the person I traded with was mistaking, I believe those SHOULD be the EditDroid extras.  I have them somewhere and I know I have a 4th disc....

UPDATE:

We're still underway with trying to decide the best method of preserving the read along transfers, and once opinions are weighed in then we can move further forward.  There's also been a test editing of a short read-along section to which we'll reveal more about later on.  There also have been a few items I'm trying to obtain, but not to jynx myself I won't reveal those just yet....

I know, I know.  This is the most secretive yet informative post I've made so far.

UPDATE:

After some back and forth with ThrowgnCpr (and a few LARGE .mp3 versions) I've finally discovered the best way to eliminate the sound of the stylus against the vinyl to the barest minimum.  This has done so much that I now don't need to worry that I'm eliminating too many frequencies.  The original way was not only hacking away at the trebles, but also in an effort to make the sound " loud and smooth" I was muffling the rest of what I had enough that I had to boost the frequencies in order NOT to muffle them away.  It lead to some acceptable "loud and smooth" versions but when compared against the original transfers still had a specific amount of frequencies either gone or muffled.

The way I do it now is that while using Audacity 1.3.6 I select about a second and a half of the "quiet area" where there is just the lowest possible level of noise.  Then I select the  "Noise Removal" codec from the EFFECT > NOISE REMOVAL menu.  I press the GET NOISE PROFILE button.  Once that's done, the option disappears.  Press CTRL+A and once you see the entire file is selected the go back to the  "Noise Removal" codec from the EFFECT > NOISE REMOVAL menu.  Hit the OK button and it should clean away most of the noise nicely WHILE not affecting the sound TOO much.  You can then use a vinyl restoration codec to do some moderate crackle and click removal (if there's any). 

I hope this is a small but brief tip that helps someone out there.

MAJOR UPDATE:

After months of not getting anywhere, I finally managed to get 5 out of the 6 Read-alongs remastered!  ThrowgnCpr has them now and will do his comparison and give me feedback.  I also plan to give a few of those out there who've helped out in some way a chance to weigh in on the work done.  I'll need some time for uploading and such but those random individuals will be contacted....   Until then, in the words of Brain:



Well, it's rather brutal here. Right now we are advising all our clients to put everything they've got into canned food and shotguns.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nTrW-V2C_o

ALTERNATIVE GREMLINS 2 trailer now up!

Thanks to Faneditlover, Uncanny Antman and Frantic Canadian over at the MEGA MADNESS thread at FE, I now have:

Alternative GREMLINS 2 trailer (found by Faneditlover, smartly saved by Uncanny Antman before it's removal)

Fangoria #39 which contains an in depth article about the FX on GREMLINS (Frantic Canadian)

GREMLINS script, 2nd draft (Frantic Canadian)

Thanks for the goodies, guys!