Hey guys, I see some of you have gotten your hands on the laserdisc but thanks to ZFARNSWORTH, I was able to digitally capture both the UK and Japanese laserdiscs.
Sadly, there’s not going to be any splicing them together to make a widescreen version without subtitles - at least by me.
In my absentmindedness, I forgot the fact that pan & scan 4:3 is done shot-for-shot so there’s no simple plopping of the UK version down on top of the Japanese version to cover up the subtitles. Someone would have to do this shot-for-shot and I just sadly do not have the time.
There’s also the issue of the color grading. The Japanese version looks like it was soaked in coffee for the last 27 years. I played around with fixing it but simply sucking the yellow out and getting it to match the UK version are two very different undertakings.
However, as we understand it, the film is public domain so I’m hosting the captures of them if anyone without access to a laserdisc player or the discs themselves would like to download them.
Just send me a private message here and I’ll give you the links!
We’re on the cusp of hiring a lawyer to aid us in tracking down a physical print, so I hope that route pans out. I’ll keep you cats updated!
Here’s a shot of our characters from ICWXP “discovering” the laserdiscs, too:
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