How about losing the Disney/ Maltin/ timeline thingy? Then expand the entire box to the bottom. This will loosen things up and make room for a disc features section. Also, maybe change the region logo to "0".
I had always read that there was a Korean "rental only" laserdisc that had no subtitling and was dual language, but I could be wrong. It may be Chinese. The Japanese laserdisc is dual language and it's quite hilarious the hear Uncle Remus and the rest of the characters speaking Japanese.
Originally posted by: Rikter I'll need to get the other versions so I can compair them with the other two, I do think that the copy I have with onscreen Japanese Subs is from the Japanese LD the picture is a bit nicer but sadly the DVD will not copy
If it has Japanese subtitles only during the songs, it's from the laserdisc. If they're through the entire film, it's from the Japanese VHS.
The 45 versions came with read-along books and were even shorter than the "Story of" LPs. They were mainly geared towards smaller children who were new to reading.
Just got this today and viewed it. EXCELLENT WORK! Looks like it could be an official release! This disc has brought back a lot of memories. Thanks so much!
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My rarest videos have got to be the 1979 release of The Making of Star Wars from Magnetic Video and then the 1982 Twentieth Century Fox Video "rental only" release of Star Wars. Both are in excellent condition.
I bought the "Making of" video a few years ago, but the Star Wars video was the very first VHS tape I ever bought. I got it while working in one of the first video rental departments of a Licorice Pizza record store back in 1983. The store was supposed to return the rental only videos to Twentieth Century Fox after a period of time, but the manager held one back and sold it to me for $90. I found out later that the manager had pocketed the money because the store had already paid Fox for the "loss" of the tape.
There's actually a very funny exchange about all this between Stacey and one of Jabba's palace slaves in the newly released Return of Pink Five Volume One. Check it out...
Just thought I'd pass this along. This series has come a long way from the original Pink Five being shot with a green screen and an office chair. Check out Pink Five, Pink Five Strikes Back, and the first volume of Return of Pink Five here...
Star Wars to Jedi & Classic Creatures were the ones that had a Japanese release with subtitles. The quality is only slightly better than the unsubtitled VHS versions. On my discs, Making of SW and SP FX were taken from Rikter's laserdisc captures and Star Wars to Jedi & Classic Creatures were taken from my own official VHS releases. Whether from VHS, US laserdisc, or Japanese laserdisc, the video quality of any of these documentaries was never very good.
I remember that I had recorded on Betamax from a clean signal Star Wars to Jedi when it was originally broadcast on my local PBS station. The official VHS doesn't look that much better.
Does anyone think things would have been different if the Star Wars Kid had embraced his notoriety? He has become sort of a cult hero. I mean, I could imagine that if he stepped up and said, "Yeah! I AM the Star Wars Kid!" that we would have eventually seen him on talkshows like Leno, Conan, or even Letterman. Just a thought.
Most of the material on my bonus discs is MPEG audio simply because that's how my DVD recorder encodes it from video sources. Things like WOW! and Soundtrack on my ROTJ bonus disc came out at AC-3 because I ripped them directly from another DVD and did not re-record it on the DVD recorder.