SilverWook

In a similar vein, stuff that sold for batsh*t crazy prices. 😉

https://youtu.be/m3FnUkFkkhA

Seems we’ve had this discussion before!
https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/The-original-ending-of-Ponda-Baba/id/13214/page/1

Worth noting the severed head was shot on an insert stage later on, just like the second arm.

Poita…

THX had a limited reissue in the wake of Star Wars’ success though.

Would they splice a new logo into an ancient print? I wonder…

Weird the auction ended today. “No longer available”.

And it was a whole print, not a trailer.

Was there still a time limit in 2005? Maybe Lucas didn’t want to make a shorter cut again.

Did they change it before or after submitting it to the MPAA though? Not like there’s anything else changed that the ever fickle ratings board would threaten a PG-13 over. 😛

Two months is hardly a necrobump.

I regret not screncapping some of the older auctions for posterity.

I saw TLJ at the IMAX dome in San Jose. It was a film print. They went laser projector sometime in the past two years, but I was unable to travel there to see TROS.

The Sandcrawler approaching the Lars’ farm was reshot with the original model.

The Blu-Ray cover attempts to polish a turd. 😉

https://www.whereisthebeastmaster.com/the-lost-negative

If you see some 35mm film cans at a garage sale or thrift store, check the labels!

That frame is from a few years back, so probably not representative of any work done since then. I have no ETA yet on when this will be done. Just about everybody has bigger problems these days.

I’ve been waiting to hear back from a colleague who has multiple copies of Discovision titles. They have a player that’s even better than my old gas tube monster at playing such problematic discs. Fingers crossed the stereo tracks turn up on the new Blu Ray though.

I am a bit concerned about the aspect ratio, as the movie started production as a tv miniseries and was not shot with widescreen in mind, AFAIK.

Youtube comment sections usually turn into a cesspool, twitter is a cesspool, and I’ve seen too many facebook threads vanish into thin air to ever trust it. The redesign they’re about to force down people’s throats isn’t an improvement so far either. I don’t see how important conversations and technical info can be retrieved on discord months or years from now.

Hokey apps and social media are no match for a good forum at your side, kid. 😉

I think it boils down to whether an actor or their family/estate gives permission or not. Disney has rights to Mary Poppins, but they don’t own Julie Andrews’ face.

That parody was around long before the Simpsons.

Rodney-2187 said:

Only a matter of time before video evidence is inadmissible in trials.

One would have to have a lot of footage to deepfake a non famous person though?

I’m amazed and terrified at how good this stuff is getting.

StarkillerAG said:

In my opinion, the original Star Wars will only be released after George Lucas dies. Disney clearly wants the original versions to be released, but they will never have the guts to go against his wishes while he’s still alive. After he dies, they’ll probably still hold off the release for a few years in order to avoid seeming insensitive, but after a while they’ll release the original.

After dumping his final production Strange Magic and blowing off his ideas for the sequels, I have doubts that they are really that considerate of his wishes.

As always, restoring the film is pocket change compared to what is spent on other Disney properties. Lucas was the only one saying it would be costly, because he never wanted to do it in the first place. Disney has spent money on restoring Song Of The South, and that will be released on video when Walt’s head is defrosted. They’ll make their money back on a OOT restoration.

Lucas sold the moisture farm to Disney and essentially retired. What wrathful act is he going to do if the OOT was released? TP Disneyland?

And imagine being the guy who ran the negative through that chemical bath! Not sure I could live with myself if I’d partially destroyed Star Wars. I felt guilty tossing a silent B&W Ken Films SW reel my old projector chewed up. 😉

It would depend on what aperture plate was in the projector at the time? I got to see it on 35mm back 2006, and while technically framed for the 1:85 screen in the theater, the extra picture info was faintly visible above and below the screen.

The airliner in flight shot on the 4K is cropped where previous editions have not.

Here’s a 35mm frame for you. Not the exact one, but pretty close.

Maybe a super high end editing deck or industrial unit, but I’ve never spotted one in the wild.

timdiggerm said:

I do think it’s pretty easy for people in the video-enthusiast camp (i.e. you care a lot about compression artifacts) to overestimate how much bigger the average consumer market (people who care a lot more about ease of access) is. Why would Disney continue to release physical media?

Perhaps they’ll care when people start hitting their friendly local neighborhood data caps. Not everybody in the country has fiber optic lines. A Frontier technician once told me it would take an act of congress to get the copper lines replaced in my old neighborhood. Internet speeds were abysmal for streaming there.