Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda

AxiaEuxine said:

Then George releases a new 6 disk set that does have changes to the OT. Are there any that you would like?

I am only interested in the OT, anamorphic and properly restored with the best original theatrical sound.  I don't want garbage mattes removed or improved backgrounds etc... those are changes to the content of the 1977 film.  As far as changes or alternative versions of the OT, there is only one change to the content of what we see in the GOUT that I would want, and that is listed in my signature.  (Every version I saw, in three different theaters in 1977, included that line, and it always drew laughs.  I still don't understand why it was removed.)

LexX said:

Raiders is bland. I find it boring,

I wonder if this is a generational thing.  In the past, movies had their ups and downs - it was called pacing.  Nowadays if something isn't exploding or someone screaming every 5 seconds, it's considered slow.

Except for this posting...

satanika said:

Pµggo

How did you do that?

To answer the original question, there is no way GL would correct the colors for a blu-ray release.  I'm guessing that in his mind, the '04 release DID correct the colors.

Sadly, I don't think there will be a decent release of SW until after GL dies.

Moth3r said:

Wait a second - did you just say telly-seen???! :-)

I didn't -- our professional experts did.

Jonno said:

"My first Puggo"?

That's kinda cute.  Or "My Little Puggo", or "Puppy Puggo".  Keep the ideas coming... I'm still not completely satisfied with any of them.

News?  Yeah, it's finals week!

Seriously, about 2 months ago, I finished the cleanups I wanted to do on reel 1. Then about 1 month ago, I finished the cleanups on reel 2.  Then I had to set it aside until the end of the semester.  As soon as I get my grades submitted, I'll start in on reel 3.

Keep in mind that by "clean up", I don't mean to imply that it is going to be - by any stretch of the imagination - "clean".  But there were certain things in there that even I couldn't stand.  My goal has been to upgrade this thing from "unwatchable" to "barely watchable" :)

Oh, and I received the 16mm PSA, but I still haven't transfered it yet.  That too will happen after I get my grades submitted.  I expect it to make an extremely cool extra.

And of course, after I finish with the Grande edition, I will begin transfering the remaining movie viewer cartridges (the first cartridge transfer appeared in my documentary "Rescuing Star Wars").  Any ideas for a name for that project?  I'm leaning towards something like "Puggo Mini", since it will be sort of the opposite of the "Puggo Grande".  But I'm open to suggestions.

Zoom in.

generalfrevious said:

I wonder if they'll add even more useless shit into the ROTJ ending;

They should add Jar Jar right next to Hayden, and replace the old Yoda with the creepy CGI Yoda (or did they already do that?).

I'd be tempted to say something like:

'The restoration of "2001 a Space Odyssey" was awesome -- will we ever get to see the original Star Wars again?'

Based purely on Obi-Wan's description in the original Star Wars movie, on a scale of 1 to 10, I'd rate Hayden about a 0.

C3PX said:

In this case the current standard is being followed. It is just a stupid standard. I am pretty sure George himself has absolutely nothing to do with this.

Correct.  It is getting extremely difficult to find a mastering house that won't brickwall your stuff to death.

For those readers not familiar with what skyjedi2005 is specifically complaining about:

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

Yeah!  it's just a kid's show...

dark_jedi said:

what is the size of the raw caps?

About 20 Gb.

Leonardo said:

I understand this, when it will be released, will be in NTSC. So how should I convert it into PAL without losing quality? What program should I use?

If someone would like to take my raw captures and produce a PAL version of the film - it would be a lot of effort but would turn out a lot nicer than converting my final NTSC DVD.  I'd be happy to make the raw frame captures available to anyone willing and able to do this.

The only thing remotely fun about AOTC was some of the visuals.  And, of course, the audible in-theater-laughing during some of the scenes.  Those romance scenes in the fields of flowers looked like some sort of parody.  Then of course, there was Yoda being plugged into a light socket, and the dialogue... ugh is right.

Ripplin said:

Can you tell by looking at it if it's as red as it appeared in the pictures they included with the auction? I know they said those pics were redder than the film actually is, but would you know that without loading it onto a projector and such?

Just took a cursory look at the film.  It's Eastman Kodak stock.  Definitely red-shifted. However, there also looks like plenty of other color remaining.  I expect it to restore quite nicely.

Quick progress report... I've finished my first pass of patches on reel 1. That involved using different types of smoothing on different scenes.  It was very tedious and I will need to do the same for the other two reels.  I also have a second pass of some miscellaneous border corrections - should be a lot quicker than the first set of corrections, though.

So progress is being made. Once those are all done, it'll be ready to encode.

Mielr said:

I bought one of those SW Ken Films from eBay several years ago (color AND sound!!!)....I still haven't bought a projector, though! (but I don't need one now, thanks to Puggo). :-)

Even though the Puggo Edition exists, I have to admit that it doesn't really replace seeing the film(s) through a real projector.

I received the film today.  Haven't watched it yet, but it appears to be in good condition.  Yes, I plan to include it as an extra in the Puggo Grande.

If the ship is traveling fast enough, wouldn't more time elapse on Dagobah than in the ship?  Might that explain how Luke had time to train while relatively (no pun intended) little time passed on Han's ship?

Ok - I won it!  Thanks for not bidding against me - it helped the price stay reasonable.

Ok, having heard of nobody else interested in bidding, I will.  Cross your fingers...

p.s.- yes, this would make a nice supplement to the Grande.