Sambarker04

Sambarker04 said:

UPDATE (24/12/2025): Welp, the fundraiser didn’t seem to go through. ☹️ I only managed to get £20, so I decided to make a better donation page. https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=PNZXCTY4D3KDA I’ve already transferred the £20 here, so if any of you wanted to support this project, now’s the time to do it.

Never mind the £20, I am not allowed to do that anyway, so I’ll just use it for personal use and start the donation over from scratch at $0. To the guy who originally donated that money, I’m sorry.

UPDATE (24/12/2025): Welp, the fundraiser didn’t seem to go through. ☹️ I only managed to get £20, so I decided to make a better donation page. https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=PNZXCTY4D3KDA I’ve already transferred the £20 here, so if any of you wanted to support this project, now’s the time to do it.

It is actually on YouTube now, or if you have my theatrical reconstruction, it has it in lossless quality.

Daniel 4EVAR said:

Is it released yet or not?
If yes, how to obtain it?
If not, when will it be coming?

PM me, so I can give you the link. It has been released btw.

UPDATE (05/12/25): So it turns out the 5.1 Japanese track from the Collector’s Edition is just a Dolby Pro Logic upmix, which would explain why there are parts where you can see the LFE channel kicking in when the song numbers play, though very quietly. So, as a result, I’m only sticking to the original Dolby Surround mix. And with that…

IT’S FINALLY RELEASED!!!

Apologies for the delay though, since I missed out on the 2002 JP DVD, since last month I was to get it with the limited edition figurine, but it didn’t include it, so I thankfully grabbed one just now as of posting. The GoFile link will contain both versions and the Extras archive.

UPDATE (27/11/2025): I’m opening up a fundraiser for 30 days. The link shall be in the description. In the meantime, I’ll figure out who will be scanning it for me. Hopefully, someone will get in touch.

Megamind is a movie I was totally obsessed when I first saw the trailer, and I’m glad I saw it, given its cult status nowadays. And then I saw this

https://www.ebay.com/itm/296214995125

Yes folks, Megamind on 35mm, but in 3D!

I thought it would be cool to preserve this, not only to do my own take, but to also see how we can do it in 3D, especially for anyone who remembers seeing this in cinemas back when they were still stuck on 35mm, even if it’s 3D.

However, because this is an extremely expensive project given the seller wants less than $1500, but also scanning it might be impossible for my room, so I thought I can get someone to do it for me, as well as estimate the entire budget on the project overall, such as the order, the scanning, and how big every single raw scan of every reel will be stored. I’m honestly welcome if this scan can be in 4K, HDR, and contain Cinema DTS audio, etc., if we can.

I will use PayPal to fundraise this project just in case anyone involved in this project can’t afford the budget, though it might be tricky given its 30-day limit.

Once this project is complete, I would think of releasing it in many versions. A 2D version, A side-by-side version, an MVC version, and anaglyph versions, though the latter would’ve been the most common since most of you threw your 3D televisions away.

If anyone is interested in doing the scan for me, please PM me and we can figure out the donation and such.

Good luck, folks!

Team:
Sambarker04 (concept and final post-processing)
?? (scanner)
More to come!

Donate at: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=PNZXCTY4D3KDA

ValenStudios said:

I know you’re only keeping the 2.0 optical audio, but it’d be neat for you to add the 2.0 PCM Laserdisc track from the Best of Roger Rabbit release as an option.
https://www.lddb.com/laserdisc/06928/5259-CS/Best-of-Roger-Rabbit-The

I actually captured the audio for my LD preservation. In fact, it was already from my regraded and recropped version I made for privacy concerns.

Hey! I actually found a listing from RNIB’s Online Shop that they have done AD for Nightmare on VHS before (https://web.archive.org/web/20030609095345/http://onlineshop.rnib.org.uk/display_product.asp?prodid=1735), so I’m wondering if this is the same that Disney later used for the 2008 UK DVD and Blu-ray release, since I did confirm from the RNIB VHS releases of Finding Nemo and The Incredibles I own that they were also used on the UK DVD and Blu-ray releases too. In fact, if you go to the 2008 UK DVD’s language selection screen on disc boot-up, it clearly says “English RNIB”, so maybe it might be the same, especially since there are no mentions of both Disney or Touchstone in the track.

Sambarker04 said:

UPDATE (17/11/2025): I decided to do a 1080p version as well since I’m pretty sure many of you really wanted that version too in case you don’t have a 4K HDR monitor/TV. This version has the entire film being regraded to match the pre-2002 master, used on the LD, and the first two American DVD releases. I’m also using the original 1080p Thunderbean scan for the logos too.

To be fair, the final regrade is really spot on for me. Selick stated in the 1994 commentary that he wanted Halloween Town to be dull as possible, and it really seem to look exactly what he intended! Especially on how during “Jack’s Lament”, it felt really black and white! 😁 Though I have no idea why Disney to make Halloween Town more colourful on the 3D re-release and Blu-ray. My guess is that they wanted to make this more suited for a now Disney-branded film so that children can get thrilled into Halloween Town.

I sent a PM. Thanks for making this!

UPDATE (17/11/2025): I decided to do a 1080p version as well since I’m pretty sure many of you really wanted that version too in case you don’t have a 4K HDR monitor/TV. This version has the entire film being regraded to match the pre-2002 master, used on the LD, and the first two American DVD releases. I’m also using the original 1080p Thunderbean scan for the logos too.

v1.0.2 update:

Replaced the DTS-HD normalised conversion of the CAV AC3RF capture with a merged and edited direct capture of my CLV LD. There seems to be no patches to apply from my hearing.

Mod Wallet said:

Is Flushed Away Russian telesync the original DVD? Pretty sure I have like 5 maybe even 6 different encodes of it, but I wouldn’t mind a DVD ISO.

They’re mainly remuxes, a couple were only re-encodes due to both originally intended for SVCD as I can guess.

These are the bootlegs I happen to own on DVD, VHS or VCD on eBay years ago that I deicded to share here because, mainly they were gone from the face of the internet due to many links being dead for nearly 20 years after they have been released, or they have been disappeared due to piracy groups disappearing after Operation Site Down happened.

Here are the films that are included in my collection:

• Cars (2006) (Telesync) (Source: Homemade DVD)
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) (CAM) (Source: Asian Bootleg DVD)
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) (Russian Telecine; English audio) (Source: Homemade DVD)
• Chicken Little (2005) (Russian Telesync; English audio) (Source: Homemade DVD)
• Flushed Away (2006) (Russian Telesync; English audio) (Source: Homemade DVD)
• Ice Age (2002) (Cam) (Source: Chinese Bootleg VCD)
• Madagascar (2005) (Russian telecine; English audio) (Source: Mainland Chinese bootleg DVD)
• Mr. Bean’s Holiday (2007) (Cam) (Source: Homemade DVD)
• Robots (2005) (Russian telecine; 5.1 Russian dub, English audio on center channel) (Source: Homemade DVD)
• Robots (2005) (SVCD Telesync) (Source: Homemade DVD)
• Shark Tale (2004) (SVCD French Telesync; English audio) (Source: Homemade DVD)
• Shrek 2 (2004) (Telesync) (Source: Homemade DVD)
• Spider-Man (2002) (Centropy? IMAX? Telesync) (Source: Asian Bootleg DVD)
• The Incredibles (2004) (Telesync) (Source: Homemade DVD)
• The Simpsons Movie (2007) (Dolby Digital Cinema Cam) (Source: Homemade DVD)
• The Simpsons Movie (2007) (German Telesync; English audio) (Source: Homemade DVD)
• Toy Story 2 (1999) (Indonesian subbed Telesync) (Source: Bootleg VCD)

Even though I already own official releases of those films too, obviously, make sure you do the exact same thing if you want those bootlegs, though I was already thinking of letting you find the film you got, and you can ask me for the film so I can give you the links to it.

There will be more updates once I grabbed more bootlegs, of course.

I would just like to thank everyone for supporting this preservation. I have never seen this project this massive, given the fact that this is friggin’ Toy Story! The reason why I’m saying this is because recently, Animation Obsessive has just recently showed screenshots of my project in their recent article on why the 35mm colours felt more special on digitially animated films. Check it out! (https://animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-toy-story-you-remember)

Is that my 35mm revival in this article? That’s very cool! Keep in mind that the original leaked ones I used in my project had film fade, especially reel 2, where it is way worse, so I regraded them to match the NTSC LaserDisc, especially since the colours are identical to the opening night bootleg if I recall.

Sambarker04 said:

UPDATE (09/11/25): Recently, noogai3 just came back to do Hi-Fi VHS rips, and Nightmare is one of them. In fact, I noticed that we got more audio than the LDs, so I decided to preserve that too. Though because the master audio (not the capture) is muffled too, and since there was a blip that noogai3 reported, I’ll sort something out.

Never mind then, I just found out that the cuts are exactly similar, so I wouldn’t bother using them. Besides, there’s clipping in there, so the LD audio is the best bet.

UPDATE (09/11/25): Recently, noogai3 just came back to do Hi-Fi VHS rips, and Nightmare is one of them. In fact, I noticed that we got more audio than the LDs, so I decided to preserve that too. Though because the master audio (not the capture) is muffled too, and since there was a blip that noogai3 reported, I’ll sort something out.

So, one day while I was searching around eMule to find some cool rare stuff to stuff, HDTV rips, cinema bootlegs and all, I came across this file called “Sky.Special.The.Simpsons.Movie.S00E50.WS.PDTV.XviD-hV.avi”. And I borderline jaw-dropped when I saw this. Being a British person and being familiar with Sky’s channels and The Simpsons, it is an amazing find I was able to get, and thankfully it managed to download, though when I watched it, I noticed that the file felt corrupt, even MediaInfo doesn’t seem to identify it. It only was only was able to read the first 3 minutes, until everything stopped. Even when I tried to convert it using avidemux, it doesn’t seem to work, repairing it with VLC or any AVI repair tool seems to hang, even remuxing to an MKV file only plays the first 5 seconds.

From what I can gather, this special, hosted by Iain Lee, and aired sometime before or on 24th of July 2007, two days before the film’s official UK release, according to a post on TPB, goes through the behind the scenes look on how they made the movie. From what I can remember from the first three minutes, it actually contains a deleted scene of the movie you wouldn’t find on the DVD, Blu-ray, animator sizzle reels or on promotional content, so I might think we might get to see more that he haven’t seen, yet even more amazing if it was ones we only got screenshots of. I did try to do it again by redownloading it to see if it was the file or the long inactivity of the file that caused it, but as of writing, no is online to let their file download to my computer. I knew I can’t try the torrent version because it is dead now, even people on Soulseek don’t seem to have it. I tried Google, no results. Internet Archive, nothing.

So, basically this is a call for help to anyone who was lucky to have a fully working file to PM me the link so I can release it on YouTube. In fact, as of now, I don’t know if it did surface on YouTube or not. If it did, it might just be an upload of the AVI file or just a VHS recording. Hopefully this will get the word out. If YouTube’s copyright system worldwide blocks the special, I’ll have to stick to Internet Archive and PM links for anyone who wants the AVI file.

UPDATE (03/11/2025): So I finally got the French LaserDisc and there are things I would love to show off here.

First is the French narrator credit from Vincent:

and a very interesting Dolby SR-D credit from the localised end credits of the film.

HAttackontheBun said:

TonyWDA said:

Aladdin carried a Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack, with split stereo surrounds, on some of its original theatrical prints, and that was released the year prior. (In fact, it was Disney’s first feature animation title to be presented in that format.) If a local listing is advertising showtimes in Dolby Digital for The Nightmare Before Christmas, then Disney most certainly had a number of Dolby SR-D prints produced for the release, and it’s likely the same mix that ended up on the DTS LaserDisc.

Speaking of Aladdin, I hope someone is able to find a genuine 1992 print of that film with the Dolby timecode and rip the audio from that…

I know it’s off-topic but if I recall, ripping Dolby Digital audio might seem to be a tricky task to do, mainly because unlike DTS where it’s easy to rip it because of the audio only coming through CD-ROM discs, conversions in foobar2000 and the fact the processor can do digital outputs, the DD processor only outputs audio through analog outputs, so that means that there could be some complex do-arounds on it by just recording all 6 analog connectors at the same time to an audio recording software, unless there are any reverse engineering and DIY tools to directly copy each bit of DD audio in the print to save it to a direct ac3 file if it uses the same decoding as what the DD on LD and later DVD and BD would do. I do remember a couple times where someone would rip the DD audio, such as on the Russian telecine bootleg of Robots, and on a fanmade 35mm 2K scan of the Spanish trailer to the 3D re-release of The Phantom Menace. If you do have access to the file, you will notice that the DD track, being in PCM format, has many analog artifacts in it, mostly analog noise and maybe inaudible buzzing from the analog connectors.

TonyWDA said:

Aladdin carried a Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack, with split stereo surrounds, on some of its original theatrical prints, and that was released the year prior. (In fact, it was Disney’s first feature animation title to be presented in that format.) If a local listing is advertising showtimes in Dolby Digital for The Nightmare Before Christmas, then Disney most certainly had a number of Dolby SR-D prints produced for the release, and it’s likely the same mix that ended up on the DTS LaserDisc.

I see.

HAttackontheBun said:

Hey, I saw that Nightmare Before Christmas was released in Dolby Digital at the time of its original release.
https://file.garden/aBF0BwGECB9-W-tX/Screenshot from 2025-10-29 13-13-49.png

Interesting. From the 35mm cells I saw on eBay (https://www.ebay.com/itm/306451154000), it seems to be stuck in Dolby Stereo when it first came out, so maybe there was an error in the magazine, or maybe there were a series of premiere prints that use a Dolby Digital soundtrack. I don’t recall any first Disney/Touchstone/Hollywood/Miramax film to use Dolby Digital, especially since the rear channels in the 5.1 mix from the DD LD, DTS LD and the first two DVD releases were in fact stereo and not dual mono.

Callum N said:

Oh wow, that’s all incredibly informative, thank you so much! So basically the Dolby Digital found on the UHD is the 2005 mix, and that 2005 mix is continued on in the DTS-HD tracks found on the first Blu-rays released for the film, e.g the 5.1 DTS-HD track? I suppose my question after this would be (especially as I see a fair amount of folks hemming and hawing about it when asked it), as someone who clearly or at least probably knows what the best audios are in order, is the DTS-HD MA a definite improvement over the Dolby Digital tracks? The answer strikes me as obvious based on the name alone regardless of one’s audio knowledge, but obviously there can always be futzing about happening. Either way, you would expect that '05 mix to sound as great as the DTS-HD; regardless of the format, it seemed to be a fair slight quieter when played at the exact same volume as the DTS-HD. I might just have to sell off the UK 4Ks I got and try get the US ones to retain all the audios I want. You might have something on that also in terms of how loud the tracks are, and if so that’d be incredible.

Thanks. Though I should let you know that the US UHD release is the same as the UK one with the language options, so just to let you know.