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Thanks for the info. That’s a huge help. 😃

There is a heavy Vinegar smell on these for sure. They were stored in a wood trunk for god knows how many years. I’m thinking this is end of days for more than a few of these reels.

For now they are sitting in my house at room temperature and I hope to get to them this weekend. At the very least I was planning to separate the Vinegar smelling reels from the others. Hopefully a few of these can be saved and scanned before they go completely.

Small update on this. We finally got the house cleaned out and I moved all the movie reels to my home. It will still be some time before I can get to this project but the next step is organizing and creating an inventory of what is in these boxes.

Thanks for the names to contact, I’ll keep them in mind once I get back to this. I haven’t gotten around to looking into these films yet and still a lot to do around the house. Could be more like a few months instead of my earlier estimate of a few weeks. I’m glad there is some interest in this stuff. I’ll be sure to keep everyone posted.

We’ll see what we have to work with in a few weeks Wazzles. I got a great message from Williarob with a lot of information to start. Now it’s just a matter of finding the time to go through all this stuff. As you can imagine cleaning out a whole house is quite a process. I’ll be sure to update everyone. I’m glad that there is at least some interest in this stuff. From that feedback I’ll see what we have for WWII newsreels first and go from there.

Thanks Williarob. I’ll be in touch about the scanning. Hopefully over the next few weeks I’ll have a better understanding of what films we actually have.

This site has a ton of great film based restorations and with all my years on this site I never thought I might be able to contribute to anything film based. That changed this past weekend when we found a trunk full of 16mm films while cleaning our my grandparents house. I didn’t have time to really dig into it to see what was there but from a quick look it seems like mostly home videos, news reels from WWII and old cartoons. I snapped a few photos and will post them below.

I know the forum probably isn’t interested in the home videos but would anyone be interested in the cartoons or news reels?

From what I could see it’s a least one box full of cartoons and one box full of news reels. I saw labels for Popeye, Krazy Kat, Donald Duck (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9T0dsLMCMY) & Pincushion Man. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fuqN8r4OlY)

It could be nothing but it could be some interested stuff.

The subs are in the letterbox area on that laser disc. About ten years ago I was working with Rikter on a laser disc to DVD version of this. I don’t know if that ever made it out into the world but we just cropped out the subs and created new ones for the aliens.

Thank you so much for all you’ve contributed to these forums over the years. It was always a joy to read you’re posts. Good luck with all your future endeavors. You’ll be missed around here.

This is absolutely heartbreaking to read. As someone who lost months of work in the past I can feel your pain. In fact I got out of working in 3D animation just because of how much stuff I lost to a hard drive catastrophe. If I can give you any advice it would be not to give up the hobby. It’s the one thing I regret more than losing all my work. Hang in there man, we’re all pulling for you.

I always enjoy the comments that come in waves when Harmy releases a new version of these movies.

• First comes the “When is this getting released?” comments.
• Second are the “Where can I download this?” comments.
• Third are the most intense… “THIS IS AWESOME! HARMY IS A GOD!”
• Next come the crushing lows of “Are the colors right on this shot Harmy?” and “Is this an error or was it supposed to be here?”
• Luckily, for Harmy, that wave of comments is usually followed up by a second round of “THIS IS AWESOME! HARMY IS A GOD!” posts.

I’m going to skip to that last round of comments and just say thanks. This is truly a the best version of Jedi that I’ve ever seen. As always this is greatly appreciated.

Might I suggest you move the artwork around a bit so it isn’t hidden by text and logos. Something similar to this.

Fair enough. I’ll keep that in mind. Thanks for all your hard work on this.

Speaking of old versions, CatBus, would you like us to stop seeding 8.3 on myspleen?

I’m currently using Emby which is similar to Plex and I just write custom nfo and xml files for preservations. It’s a bit more work than using a scrapper to grab the info for you but it doesn’t take much time to edit a file for a new preservation.

Wow those really look great. 

This is now out in the wild again.  I hope everyone enjoys it.

I'm the one who original created the Evil Dead edit.  I'll try to upload it again to Myspleen sometime this week.

I finally got around to watching Jason Goes to Hell last night and the film looks and sounds great.  Where are the various audio tracks sourced from?

I'd love to see these restoration attempts compared to what DJ and his team were able to pull off.  I understand that this isn't a contest to see who can do better but if at the end of this you do end up doing better then the community as a whole benefits.

Open discussion and comparison to what has come before can only lead to a higher standard of restoration projects in the future.  I see no harm is using the TeamBlu projects as a baseline for amazing quality and attention to detail.

TeamBlu set the standard for GOUT upscales with their phenomenal Star Wars releases.

There is great work going on here and it's only natural to want to compare it to what has been done before.  When doing that why not compare it to what the community has decided is the best looking upscale done to date?

Neat idea.  I like what you've done with the intro so far.  I'm looking forward to seeing the progress on this.

Having seen the work that you've done to Hard Boiled I have to say I'm really impressed.  I have yet to get around to seeing any of your other projects but I hope to someday.

What are your plans for Iron Monkey?  I would love to see a proper HD version of the Hong Kong edit of that.

bradt

Rats. I may be totally out of luck here (unless I go for a hardware purchase). I did upgrade the firmware; no luck. Thanks for the info, though.

When I had my old computer setup I had problems playing back DTS-MA tracks all the time.  I was able to convert the DTS-MA tracks to DTS using TSmuxer with ease.  It might be worth a shot if the file is still giving you trouble.

deusxanime said:

I created an xdelta patch for going from the pre-fix version to the final fixed version (with correct audio labels, etc.). If you have the old version and don't want to redownload ~20GB or muck about with mkv editors, you can use this. Just extract it to the same folder as the mkv video file and run the .bat file. You need to make sure to have the same name as originally downloaded or to edit the .bat file if you've changed it. And be sure to have another ~20 GB available before starting as it will create a whole new file!

Dropbox link, hopefully will work here

I tested and verified, the fixed version should match the official md5 of 1e34878403b05924f71354e961016fce after completion.

 Huge thanks for this Deusxanime.  I had been meaning to change my file and start seeding but I was too lazy. This was the kick in the pants I needed to get this seeding again.  I really appreciate this.

The Lake Placid movies would be great.  I'm also still holding out hope for the Critter movies.  Keep up the great work guys.