Yeah, the average consumer doesn’t really care much about the SE vs OOT, or if a poster year matches the year the version they’re watching was made. Why would they? Obi Wan fights Darth Vader and Luke blows up the Death Star - it’s the same movie in most people’s minds.
A lawyer representing an angry fan might? 😉
Laserdiscs were always dual channel regardless of the audio track. There was no 1.0 mode like DVD or Blu Ray. A mono track could be put on one channel to accommodate a commentary on the other, but a viewer would have to manually select either track or both would be heard at the same time. The addition of digital sound to the format in the mid 80’s allowed for four mono tracks, (two digital, two analog) but this was rarely done.
Sony was able to get studios to release quite a lot on Video 8. There were even Disney titles. Two SoCal electronics stores I used to haunt back in the 90’s carried a bunch of them. It might have gone hand in hand with being an official Sony dealer. I can’t seem to find any domestic CBS/Fox titles on Ebay though. ROTJ would have come out well within the time frame of of Video 8 releases.
It can be tricky to search for Video 8 titles as a lot of Super 8 gear gets lumped into the results.
I briefly considered Video 8 titles as an alternate source for PCM tracks that can’t be found on Laserdisc, but Sony never seems to have made a 8mm deck with a digital out jack.
I’ve seen Japanese copies on Ebay, not sure if they were released in the U.S. or not.
A PAL copy of ROTJ featured in one of techmoan’s videos on Sony 8mm Video Walkman gear.
https://youtu.be/pdObeF9VHiA
Using original poster art is like false advertising at this point.
Possibly the Dolby Digital print has the 5.1 remix from the early 2000’s and an optical stereo track. I would think a dual mono track insured compatibility with projectors with a stereo sound head?
Haha! I was pretty surprised to actually see it on Disney+ when I was scrolling thru the other day. I thought for sure they were going to try burying the evidence of it ever having existed, but there it was! And it turns out the only thing I actually remember about the movie is John Byner voicing Gurgi (munchies and crunchies!)
Oh wow, just checked - apparently it’s available in 4K HDR10 there. I didn’t even know until just now.
It’s been on DVD twice.
I could see Disney doing a massive set of their animated films, which would then be the only way to get The Black Cauldron, just to tick me off. 😉
And nothing on the package to indicate they’re the 2011 masters? What a rip off.
Mind you, this is an old screencap from a few years back.
You mean these?
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Lot-The-Ewok-Adventure-1984-35mm-Film-Cell-Movie-Filmcells-Strip-Star-Wars/264769672800
Someone with better eyesight than I have currently will have to check to see if there are any shots here not in the trailer.
I paid around $40-50 for a factory sealed copy of one of them on ebay well over a decade ago. It was a gap in my SW LD collection I wanted to fill. It’s all supply and demand with Laserdiscs. And going by sold ebay listings, demand is high. I doubt they were pressed in the same numbers as the OT or Phantom Menace.
R.I.P Wilford Brimley 1934-2020
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/wilford-brimley-dead-cocoon-actor-937941
And if THAT was what Lucas called “Disney-picture” Star Wars, imagine what he thought would be the “teenage” version…
Like something out of Heavy Metal?
I don’t recall any charred corpses, severed limbs, or entire planets being blown to bits in any pre-1977 Disney movies. 😉
IIRC, chunky Hal may have resulted from modelling it on the only known surviving 2001 faceplate, which is above the door to the brain room, barely glimpsed in the movie, and not quite like the others.
That would take an awful lot of digital work to replace the patches. I wish those pesky CRT monitors on Discovery could be made to look like the flatscreens of the original set myself.
Could the screens from 2001 be pasted over the 2010 shots?
I made a crazy request on the discord that someone do an OT version of a current meme. Courtesy of Sishyo. 😃
For context.
And Ron Howard never does Happy Days and Henry Winkler never becomes the Fonz? Yikes.
The soundtrack to the first season of Space: 1999 also used a lot of classical music to great effect.
What if George Lucas never made Star Wars at all?
Then this site would be originaljawstrilogy.com 😉
The links in the spam messages. One is spoofing the URL to the forum.
And yes, there is a spam attack going on. We’re keeping ahead of it, so far.
Some of them probably worked on Flesh Gordon! 😛
I’d love to know what flop from 1977 shot at Elstree those blokes though was going to go through the roof.
Yeah, there were four of them in all. And for goodness sake, don’t ever click on any of those spam links to see where they go!
Call me crazy, but there are some tracks from John Barry’s score to The Black Hole I think could work in places.
https://youtu.be/lPrKguwVNVs
https://youtu.be/dr5sIW1Ejlc
https://youtu.be/tky9jYrsB60
https://youtu.be/JJ7p6gp0iXI
https://youtu.be/FvN5U46cu8Q
https://youtu.be/-qNImL96rno
https://youtu.be/VGGrXRtSNAU?t=178
Moonraker Score by John Barry
https://youtu.be/0IKahbz75xo
https://youtu.be/KIOOqCzvmcQ
https://youtu.be/XYw69v0GIaA