SilverWook

Stuart Freeborn and Gilbert Taylor remembered by TCM.

http://youtu.be/mFWOjWKYdRQ

I still want this version. ;)

Easy to forget Star Wars was called the cinematic equivalent of junk food by it's detractors back then, among other things. I still chuckle at the memory of one critic who was strongly suggesting parents were better off taking kids to the Disney film Candleshoe instead. Oh, the irony!

And some of the usual suspects have blamed SW and Jaws for Hollywood's blockbuster mentality ever since.

It's all a load of dingo's kidneys of course. ;)

Slave Leia not being an essential buy depends greatly on one's point of view. ;)

Crazy computers in Trek don't waste much time. ;)

You'd think someone would have been inspired by this episode to make a giant inflatable Enterprise parade balloon years ago.

Those of us who have been near film prints of the OT have probably inhaled a little bit of them. Disturbing thought. ;)

It's a reference to the TAS episode, The Practical Joker.

Not the first "computer goes crazy" story, but notable for the first appearance of a holodeck in Trek, and of course, the first malfunction. ;)

http://io9.com/the-star-trek-tng-crew-looks-amazing-in-original-serie-1333833842

Fascinating!

The Wampas took it down. ;)

It played fine on an older machine I don't have anymore. I had a similar problem with the old MGM DVD of Yellow Submarine, yet it played fine on a PC.

Wrong forum. Moving...

They did put a workprint/alternate version of the Fairy Folk scene on the remastered DVD from a couple years back.

Since Lucas was going to direct an early version of Apocalypse Now, people try to find some sort of line connecting them. Lucas himself made a vague reference to Vietnam and AN in Making of A Saga.

Tobar said:

They seem generally confused whenever they try to do anything pilot related. In fact, wasn't their last goof on their facebook page claiming Wedge Antilles grew up with Luke on Tatooine?

 That error may stem from the Marvel comic.

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Star_Wars_78:_Hoth_Stuff!

TServo2049 said:

This online petition stuff does nothing, IMO. The people working at Universal today probably have no idea there were scenes deleted from the film, or would have no idea where the footage might be.

And as I said before, this is all assuming that the footage still exists - there's a good chance it was thrown out some time in the last 25 years, whether intentionally or not.

Someone should contact Don Bluth about the scenes - if he were to ask Universal, maybe something would come out of it.

Disney themselves couldn't locate the finished footage that was cut from Robin Hood or The Black Cauldron when they were putting together the extras for their respective DVD releases, so I'm understandably pessimistic that Universal will ever dig up the deleted scenes from The Land Before Time...

 Wouldn't some of the deleted scenes from TBC be too scary for Disney to put on a "family friendly" video release? There's a cel or two around of the Horned King's henchmen dissolving at the touch of the Cauldron Born that are a little gruesome.

I'll have to try it on some other players then. Thanks for the info!

A shortcut through the toy aisle at Target accidentally spoiled the identity of Tron Legacy's villain for me. ;)

Avoiding spoilers on the SW sequels is going to be a formidable task.

Someone has. Just found out about this over at FE.org.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVKdqvpLb-s

Anybody watch their SE DVD's lately? I found another rotter. The Man With The Golden Gun breaks up severely past the layer change, to the point of being unwatchable.

I've watched or scanned though my other SE discs in the past year, and the early THX of Goldfinger had a similar issue with the full frame layer not being playable at all.

Drat.

Don't know if you guys saw my post in the Disney thread.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/DUMBO-1941-35MM-ANIMATED-FILM-PRINT-1976-RE-ISSUE-SP-COLOR-EASTMAN-STOCK-/291021634018?pt=US_Film&hash=item43c23db9e2

Is this print too far gone to be of any use?

You'd think that would have been considered. The miniatures made for the DS9 Tribble episode ought to have still been in Paramount's hands when the remastering started. Other ships like the Fesarius and the Doomsday Machine could be CGI.

Personally, I would have borrowed the original big E back from the Smithsonian and undo that horrible paint job she has now. Laser scan the entire model for future use as well. ;)

Are there any motion control FX houses left in Hollywood these days?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVCzdpagXOQ

That image was on the first Star Wars item I can recall owning, a Kenner jigsaw puzzle. (One of the few items they actually got into stores by the end of 1977.) The large grey areas drove me mad!

Yeah, but the number of pure Thanksgiving tv specials isn't very large. (Episodes of regular tv shows don't count.) The Charlie Brown one is probably the only show that still runs every year. Some of the others I recall from childhood probably aren't PC by today's fickle standards.