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Jambe Davdar

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#269812
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//RETURNING TO JEDI\\: NTSC & PAL DVD
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The 'Returning to Jedi' trailer music is taken from the ROTJ soundtrack, I believe it's called 'Final Duel'.

The 'Award Winning Trailer!' music is a track that was developed from the film 'Requiem for a Dream'. Peter Jackson liked the score so much that he asked the original composer to make a more punchy version for his then upcoming 'Two Towers' trailer.

Hope that helps.

JD
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#269700
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//RETURNING TO JEDI\\: NTSC & PAL DVD
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Originally posted by: russs15
How is our mutual friend - the other Mr JB??? I have not heard from him in a while.


Actually I wasn't talking about our mutual friend Russs. Though I hear JB is very busy organising things for 'Celebration Europe' having visited the Toy Fair in London last week and met up with a certain official Lucasfilm employee.

The Lucasfilm employee I am talking about is Mr Sansweet as you've probably guessed. I just hope that Lucasfilm understand what these projects are about. They are about a genuine love and affection for the films and a totally respect for the people involved in making them, nothing else. They are not about making money or infriging anyone's rights. If the day ever came where I was asked to cease making such projects, I would do it in a flash. I recently read a French forum discussing my projects and whether they were piracy or not. One person suggested that it was no more harmful that someone producing a fanzine or fan website.

JD
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#269638
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Sluggo's Star Wars Trailer Contest *Next contest begins April 25th*
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/269638/action/topic#269638
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WOW! I am so pleased (big smile on my face).

Thanks to Sluggo for setting the competition up in the first place. And a big WELL DONE to the other winners. I am really looking forward to seeing you trailers!

Slugs, I have no problem with you posting the trailer anywhere you like.

Thanks again! Wooo hoo! This is the second competition I have won in my life. The first was a Lego competition at my school when I was aged 6. I won a Transformers puzzle, LOL!

JD
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#269637
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//RETURNING TO JEDI\\: NTSC & PAL DVD
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I have a friend who is big in the toy collecting world and he met this particular Lucasfilm employee with regards to the organisation of 'Celebration Europe'. He is being visted by this Lucasfilm guy later this month (later that originally thought). He's told him about my projects and will be watching them with him soon.

Thanks Russs, I am glad you liked it all. I got a real kick out of making that trailer. I would love to make a living out of it. Sluggos competition just gave me an excuse to refine my editing technique. I will get there eventually. That reminds me, when are the results of the competition published? I had better take a look!

JD
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#269520
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//RETURNING TO JEDI\\: NTSC & PAL DVD
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Originally posted by: strangelove
Originally posted by: Jambe Davdar
I've already seen that thanks (uncropped!). It didn't make the final cut


What about this guy?


Yeah, I've seen him too. Again, I did think about integrating it but I decided not to.

I have officially lost the thread of this thread.

BTW if I do a 'Star Wars' project I won't be using Deleted Magic, I will be starting from scratch.

JD
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#269439
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"Archiving seminar reveals 'Star Wars' tidbit?" Another SE?!
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/269439/action/topic#269439
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Originally posted by: Sluggo
Originally posted by: Fang Zei
What about this stuff from wookieepedia?:

# Mark Hamill's fall from Cloud City had to be re-shot after the film was damaged during processing.
# Mark Hamill did most of his own stunts in the film. The scene where Luke Skywalker falls from Cloud City onto the Millennium Falcon—which was later reshot due to film damage-caused an injury to Mark Hamill's wrist. Unfortunately, most of the footage—including Luke Skywalker's landing on the hull of the Millennium Falcon—was omitted from the final film.


I can't find this over there... link please!


It's mentioned in Alan Arnold's TESB book. It really is a MUST READ for any Star Wars fan. It's often on ebay.

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#269363
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//RETURNING TO JEDI\\: NTSC & PAL DVD
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/269363/action/topic#269363
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I recently saw OCPmovie over at another forum under another name selling copies of just about everything we have created on here. He is charging well over the odds too. Such a shame this has to happen.

I have just received an email that made me laugh. Some poor bugger from the UK has just downloaded the NTSC version and can't play it on his domestic player (he says it's a very old player). He now wants to know if I made a PAL version!

This thing is certainly getting bigger. There is going to be an article on TMO, an interview on Mancow and a Lucasfilm employee is watching both projects this week. Arrrg!
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#269360
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***//BUILDING EMPIRE\\: PAL & NTSC DVD - NEW EDITION NOW ONLINE! ***
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/269360/action/topic#269360
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Originally posted by: tb1971
Jambe, I just wanted to tell you that you've done a great job with Building Empire that I was able to watch yesterday - a real professional job! Addition of an Easter egg was a nice touch. Can you please tell me if that was a segment from a documentary or just a clip from an old newsreport (which one)?


Thanks. Good to hear that people are still enjoying this. The clip was from 'The Making of Star Wars'.
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#269215
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//RETURNING TO JEDI\\: NTSC & PAL DVD
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Originally posted by: dcfcfan
I think the main reason pay for these things is because they aren't tech savvy enought to get it for themselves, or, like me, they don't have access to a DVD burner to make their own copy. I'm practically begging shamelessly for a copy and getting no response, so I can understand the frustration of folks who are eager to see this but have no other way to get it than to buy it from a soulless scalper.


Hi, I think because you are new and aren't offerring anything to trade means that you might get overlooked. Offer to pay it forward perhaps?

But hey, send me your address and I will see what I can do.

JD
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#269188
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"Archiving seminar reveals 'Star Wars' tidbit?" Another SE?!
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/269188/action/topic#269188
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I am actually not bothered by Lucas messing with the trilogy some more. I have the trilogy in the way that I want it (ok not quite the quality I want).

Having released my own projects, I can now understand how frustrating it is, after all the hard work, to spot mistakes and things you know you could improve if you just had more time.

Luckily I have family and friends to keep me busy. Furtherrmore, given that 'Building Empire' and 'Returning to Jedi' are non profit making projects, I don't have the incentive of money if I tarted them up and re-release them.

JD
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#269142
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//RETURNING TO JEDI\\: NTSC & PAL DVD
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/269142/action/topic#269142
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Thanks Rev! Glad you liked it.

Daveytod, I used Final Cut Pro's text function along with a black slug and mixes to do the subs on 'Returning to Jedi'. They are therefore burnt in, but at least I had more control when creating them.

Re: PAL speedup. I am sure you guys can live with it. Boon has done a great service for you all here.

I also just wanted to take a moment to thank everyone so much for their efforts on getting this out there!

Cheers
JD
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#268980
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//RETURNING TO JEDI\\: NTSC & PAL DVD
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/268980/action/topic#268980
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Originally posted by: SKot
Jambe,
One thing puzzled me a bit, though: I was surprised at the lack of references to or footage from Return of the Ewok. There are some prime ROTJ outtakes in there. Was it due to the available footage being so low-quality, or was there another reason it didn't get mentioned? Just curious.--SKot


I did think about integrating some of the Return of the Ewok footage but I just thought that it stands as a great little piece of Star Wars history on it's own. And whilst the footage of Wicket evading Boba is fun, it didn't really make much sense in 'Returning to Jedi' as an outtake. Perhaps I'll release a Special Edition on the first anniversary


I also decided not to integrate the footage shot for ROTJ that was used in 'The Ewok Adventure'. It was simply a few shots of Ewoks waving guns and their arms and wasn't really interesting.

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#268964
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"Archiving seminar reveals 'Star Wars' tidbit?" Another SE?!
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USA TODAY ARTICLE

Archiving seminar reveals 'Star Wars' tidbit?

An otherwise dry Sundance panel led to a potentially big revelation about the original Star Wars trilogy on Tuesday.

While discussing archiving and preserving film negatives, Phil Feiner, president of the company Pacific Title, was discussing work he did on the re-release of the Star Wars movies in the late 1990s. He believes Star Wars creator George Lucas has continued to tinker with the movies, adding as-yet-unseen new footage.

"There is new footage edited into them that no one's seen yet," Feiner said. "I don't know what he's going to do with it, but let me guess: six-disc boxed set."

There has long been suspicion that Lucas might try to further integrate elements of his prequel trilogy with the original tale of Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader. If true, it is likely to stir debate among Star Wars fans around the globe. Many were unhappy he altered the original versions, while others were pleased to see cleaner special effects and new scenes.

Pacific Title has a stellar reputation in Hollywood, previously restoring such movies as Vertigo, The Wizard of Oz and Sleeping Beauty.

Feiner says he worked for three years cleaning up the Star Wars movies for release in 1998. "We were then contacted by Lucas to go into another 100 shots that we hadn't done before. I basically said, 'Why are we doing this? You released the picture.' He said, 'Well, we want to go in and clean up stuff we hadn't done before.'"

That's when he picked up on a bombshell: "I heard through another source, some friends of mine up at ILM (Lucas' special-effects company), they were doing additional shots to get cut into a new version. I've never seen it, and I don't know anybody outside of George and his small cadre that have seen it. I'm just making an assumption that they're going to use this for some future release."

There has long been suspicion that Lucas might try to further integrate elements of his prequel trilogy with the original tale of Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader. LucasFilm spokesman John Singh said late Tuesday: "There are always a wide range of rumors flying around about Star Wars. There have been a lot of tests done over the years to help ILM explore new technology, but we don't have any plans for another Star Wars release."