That's a huge amount for a print sight unseen and few details. The seller of the Cinevision print last year was able to show screenshots and even took cellphone video of the print as they ran it.
I suspect in the good old days they just ported a theatrical mix straight over without tweaking it for home use. One reason LD soundtracks can still shake windows with the right setup.
Harmy said:
Titanic only got an open matte release for the 3D version, the 2D version is 2.35:1.
There were full frame VHS and Laserdisc versions though. None of these were open matte then?
Nice unit! It looks like a prop from the film!
I can't help but feel like it's staring into my soul. ;)
Not to throw water on the idea, but I'm babysitting two such prints, plus a third that is the 1977 version.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Super-8-Star-Wars-Scope-very-Rare-Feature-Length-Film-/180824657908?pt=US_Film&hash=item2a19fd4ff4
All are on reels too big to fit on the gear Puggo uses.
Space Kaijuu said:
Does anyone know if the Blu-Ray is supposed to have the deleted "pig head" scene included in HD? One of the DVDs had it in SD format but it wasn't a very clean transfer from what I saw.
According to the Home Theater Forum review, it's in SD, as are all the extras except for the shorts.
The scene was actually reinstated for the tv broadcast premiere in the late 80's, so maybe it's sourced from an old video master?
If you harken back to the early concept for Luke, they could have been sisters. ;)
Nice peek into the past. So when do we cut the cake?
Several of the older editions use original poster art elements. I'd go after some of the RCA CED's just for the cover art if I had the space.
There was a youtube video showing the differences in the AVTAK title sequence, (the full frame coming from a VHS) but it seems to be gone now.
I could kick myself for letting an old CBS/Fox Beta of FYEO go without checking it. I ended up with a lot of tapes chasing down that HBO Star Wars recording a while back.
Jumped on a factory sealed MWTGG only to realize too late it's full frame. Doh! At least it has digital sound. Not obsessed!
Did you ever collect any of the pan and scan versions? I'm curious to see the recomposed "HBO version" title sequences Maurice Binder did for the later Moore era. (And presumably the Dalton films, but the title sequences might have been letterboxed when I saw them on VHS.)
I ended up with a pan and scan copy of Die Another Day in a batch of other DVD's I won last year, and the title sequence was recomposed for 1:33. I don't think any of the other Brosnan films had full frame editions though.
I'm pretty sure he wants in on this. He's been doing Lando on Robot Chicken and more recently Detours. Would be cool if we saw Lando's ship too. The version seen in Jedi Outcast was like a intergalactic bachelor pad. ;)
The real question is, who could play Lando's kids?
Impressive, most impressive!
BTW, if you're still looking for a NASA vehicle that may have inspired the sandcrawler, it's not something that ever went into space, but it helped!
adywan said:
The new binocular shot was first rendered with CG walkers, then transferred to video tape and then shot using a video camera filming the video being played on a small CRT TV with the tracking/ signal being messed with. The original was also recorded using a camera filming off a crt monitor.
There is something about the original that always made the walkers look like small toys, probably because this shot didn't use stop motion walkers, but mechanical ones instead. You can tell by the fluidity of the motion, which is also why the center one rocks so much, which is something the stop motion versions don't do.
The camera motion was matched to the original, which has no camera wobble and is pretty fluid. And there is a lot of motion blur used on the new version. The Walkers formation was positioned to match the next time we see the walkers coming over the ridge; center one in front, next two in alignment slightly further back and the rear two are also in alignment with each other.
The opening shot of the walkers seen in the far distance, all of the walkers are moving, whereas the original was just some static shapes. It's Vimeo's compression that has screwed around thanks to the compression artifacts. But you can see on the vimeo video ( just the revisited scene and not the comparison one) if you look closely you can see the AT-ST's moving
That's awesome how you kept the binocular shot old school. :)
Wish I had held onto all those "third party" recordings of the Star Wars score by bands and orchestras never heard from again. Some were truly odd or downright awful, but I didn't see the potential comedy gold in those old 8 tracks and vinyl thrift store finds.
1990osu said:
Star Wars opens in Great Britain this time, not America
This is kind of weird. I bet internet pirating will be off the charts.
You mean the Trek sequel of course. ;)
I didn't even know THX had been shown on any cable network in letterbox in the late 90's. Where does that Bravo screenshot come from?
One "high end" video effect I recall from the 80's was wrapping a live image around a rotating cube shape. (Might have been the Video Toaster.) There must be some modern equivalent in the software you use? That might work for whatever goes into the opera scene...
How long before it gets mentioned on television? ;)
I thought you were talking about eliminating the coughing gesture Grevious sometimes makes?
Should his guards have voices?
How hard would be it to have a giant floating holographic Rick Astley during the opera scene? ;)
Random cutaways to a closeup of Obi Wan, Ani, R2, or Palpatine to eliminate the coughing action? More silent glares are always funny...
It's surreal were talking about new Star Wars movies, period.
As for ROTS spoilers, some of us were hoping to see the final fate of Jar Jar. ;)
bobgarcia74 said:
More ideas in my head.
I've heard alot of talk about Maul being Grevious, why not someone else?
* This clip it not really intended to be very funny, it was made more in mind as to get ideas flowing. Considering this characters relation change to Anakin in Frink's Ep 1
I kind of like this idea! And there's plenty of Liam Neeson movies to lift choice dialog from.
I also think Grevious' ship could have a really bad muffler. ;)
Funny how those THX LD's are worth more now. Stores near me couldn't give them away in waning days of carrying the format. Do you think the non-THX PCM tracks are good enough for a preservation?
Doesn't the recalled LALD have audio problems?
Still trying to track down a few more SE DVD's if I can get them cheap for the older 5.1 mixes. I think those ought to be preserved especially if they're derived from 70mm.
And I still need LALD, TMWTGG, VTAK, TLD, and LTK on Laserdisc. We both ought to have our heads examined!
Roy Thomas said in a 1987 interview that Jaxxon was a pure Bugs Bunny homage. In issue #16, he is captured and interrogated by alien goons named "Fud" and "Dafi". (Even when I was 11, I caught on to that.) So the circle is now complete. :)
I don't mind being teased with a pic or two. The first Empire pic I recall seeing was Mark Hamill on some weird beast on a snowy landscape.
I just realized that in my position, it will much harder to avoid spoilers around here than in the past.
As I've said before, the moment a photo of Mark or someone else in costume gets out, the site that posts it will melt from the load. ;)