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#292220
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Info: 8mm scope reel - for sale on eBay
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Originally posted by: SilverWook
There has to be some way to Rube Goldberg around that pesky limitation. Use two other projectors to feed and take up the reel?

The only way I could think of would be to put some sort of extenders on the spindles, to get the reels beyond the projector housing. That would also require some gentle angular guiding of the film into the feeding mechanism. I'd have to do some investigating in my bountiful free time
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#291868
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Info: 8mm scope reel - for sale on eBay
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Originally posted by: bkev
If this is widescreen, could this be the ultimate fan-preservation? An original film of Star Wars?

Well, it's only highlights, so it would be more like a widescreen Puggo Edition. Really, a fan preservation from film (16mm's pop up semi-regularly on eBay, and I have thought about it) would be a serious challenge... most of us don't have access to the kind of ultra-high quality telecine equipment that George has. As proud as I am of the PE, An 8mm film run through my WorkPrinter isn't going to come anywhere close to VHS, let alone GOUT. It would be fun, though. Hmm, I'd have to learn how to do real anamorphic encoding, to blow those grainy pixels up as big as possible
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#291822
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Info: 8mm scope reel - for sale on eBay
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Just saw a 400’ Star Wars reel in Cinemascope on eBay (item #140134830970), listed as a 20th Century Fox Digest Print. Considering the transfers I made for the Puggo edition, would there be value in my attempting to transfer this? Presumably, this would be widescreen and have more of the field in it, right?

My Super8 WorkPrinter doesn’t have a widescreen lens, although obviously I could “fake” it by transfering it and then squashing it in post-production. I’m not sure I’d want to bid a LOT to get it - was anyone else planning on bidding on it? If so, I might be available to borrow it and make a Puggo-like transfer of it. If nobody was planning on bidding, I might make a modest bid myself near the deadline if it hasn’t gotten too high.

Thoughts?

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#290778
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So...today I bought Attack of the clones just to have a complete collection
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Of the prequels, I actually thought Ep.1 was the best. It's not good, but of the three at least it had some imaginatively done scenes, and the battle at the end was spine chilling with the choir as musical backdrop. By contrast Ep.2/3 are just childish. Notice the formula - a scene with nothing but effects, then a scene with 3 or 4 people talking, then another scene with nothing but effects, then a scene with 3 or 4 different people talking, back and forth over and over (did anyone else notice that?). And the dialogue got worse and worse, the acting more and more painful, and the story became a laughable mess. In fact people did laugh in the theaters I went to, and not when they were supposed to.

And they missed the boat with Yoda's fighting. I was expecting a master of efficiency - a step here and a step there, a few perfectly timed subtle moves and the enemy is brought down. Instead he was like the old Daffy Duck films, rebounding off everything.
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#285637
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Info: awaiting a curious eBay purchase - super8 StarWars reel
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I just bought one of those super8 StarWars reels on eBay. Having recently produced the Puggo Edition from Boba Feta’s reels, there’s nothing particularly interesting about that, except that these supposedly were “augmented” by super-8 footage made by the original owner, off of the TV. If they turn out to contain the rare TV airing of the missed grappler throw, or Vader hitting his head on the door, or Greedo shooting 3rd, I’ll be sure and let y’all know FWIW, it’s item #300107526524.

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#282879
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.: The XØ Project - Laserdisc on Steroids :. (SEE FIRST POST FOR UPDATES) (* unfinished project *)
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Originally posted by: corellian77
For what it's worth, I think the X0 team should leave the "Episode IV: A New Hope" in the crawl. I've literally been watching Star Wars for as long as I can remember (I was born in '77), and having grown up watching ANH on home video, that's the opening crawl I (and presumably many other people) have grown up with and love.
I saw SW 7 or 8 times in theaters in the late-70s and early 80s. Then I didn't see it again for about 10 years - needless to say I was shocked when I saw the Episode IV A New Hope in the title. Having said that, since the X0 is fundamentally a preservation of the laserdisc, I think it should include ANH in the crawl. Maybe offer it without, as an option.
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#282397
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'Backstroke of the West' with retail DVD quality : FINISHED & RELEASED
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And for anyone curious, here is the same thing done for ANH:

The Star Goes to War
The plot IV
Newly to Hope

This is civil war period. Rebels against the spaceship, collides from a hidden base, won their first victory opposition evil outer space star cluster empire. In battle period, rebels against the spy to try to steal the secret plan to the empire final weapon, the death star, an armoured space station destroys an entire planet by the foot strength.

Pursues by the empire sinister proxy, Leia Princess race her starship, possibly preserves her the people and restores freely to the galaxy... the plan storage person which steals.
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#282394
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'Backstroke of the West' with retail DVD quality : FINISHED & RELEASED
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I just ran the original crawl into Babelfish, translated to Chinese, and back to english. here's what I got:

The Star Goes to War
The Sith Plot III Revenge War!

The republic smashing comes under the attack by callous Sith your excellency, counts Dooku. Has the hero in both sides. The evil is everywhere.

Astonishingly is moving, devil resemble the droid leadership, general was sad, sweeps clear entered the republic capital and Minister Palpatine which kidnapped, the outer space star cluster Senate's leadership.

When the separationism Droid army attempts to flee the capital which besieges with their valuable hostage, two Jedi knight leads to look the mission rescue to capture minister. ..
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#280955
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Alec Guinness's Birthday today
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His acting in the scene in his little hut of a house on Tatooine, is without question the best acting in the entire SW saga. With the most subtle expressions, he conveys emotions far deeper than all the screaming in the PT. The scene turned out to be so powerful (thanks to Guiness' powerfully understated acting), that Lucas should have seized upon it and built the entire saga around what Obi-Wan said in that hut, instead of spending the next 5 movies trying to explain it away. Guiness single-handedly turned SW from a fun flick into a real movie, and not only the best of the trilogy, but among the best of all time.
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#280426
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Info: a short version of original trailer - from a tiny 16mmm loan
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Originally posted by: bkev
I saw the whole thing at my local theater when they showed AOTC... thanks, you've brought back memories.
For anyone who wants to see the full, it's on youtube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gvqpFbRKtQ
Yeah, I'd seen this long cut before. The short one is edited differently but I think it's made up of the same scenes (unless someone sees something I don't). Wish the film had the start to go with it.

Transfered with a WorkPrinter-16. Nasty red-shift I had to adjust - responded better than I expected. And the sprocket holes were all chewed up - repaired them with some perforated tape. Tedious.

The full .avi is just under a gig. I'll try to figure out a way of posting it for download. Not into the torrent thing...
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#274682
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Getting too old for this sort of thing?
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Wow, am I the oldest on the board? I'm 46. Saw SW five times in three different theaters when it opened (I was 17 in 1977). SW had been heavily hyped in northern CA by a popular late-night TV show hosted by Bob Wilkins - so I knew it was coming, knew it would be good, and loved every minute of it. I remember every detail as if it were yesterday.

My only regret is never having seen it in 70mm. Five years ago, I saw 2001 in 70mm, it was without question the most stunning image I've ever seen on any screen. I can only imagine what SW must have looked like in 70mm. I should have driven to LA to see it. If a print ever made a tour, I'd fly out to see it... although I'd probably have a heart attack or something watching it.
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#274257
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my memory isn't that bad, is it? (in SW '77 - Luke misses with the grappling hook?)
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My theory of these things, is that we expect him to miss the grappling hook the first time. In every other movie with a similar scene, the star misses the first time. So we "fill in" that part in our minds.

I saw SW five times in the theater when it was released, in 3 different theaters. I swear that Vader didn't get away... I was shocked when I saw a video years later and he got away. I saw Luke miss the grappling hook. I saw them looking up from Tatooine at the battle (later I learned that this "memory" was the result of owning a SW trading card with that shot on it). Although I now have come to doubt these "memories", I'm still not totally convinced there isn't a missed grappling hook somewhere, possibly on a very early trailer. And I'm not totally convinced Vader's survival wasn't added sometime after the first month, when SW's huge success was making a sequel essential.