SilverWook

DuracellEnergizer said:

Mark pesters Alec for details about his career, driving Alec to pay Mark to stop the pestering and go away.

Star Wars is released, followed eventually by TESB and ROTJ.

Many fans and gradual viewers alike grow up to associate Alec primarily/soley with Obi-Wan/Star Wars, deemphasizing all the other roles he's played in the decades preceeding the trilogy.

Is this, or is this not, an example of karmic justice? I leave that question up for you to decide.

You forgot making more money than any other role in his career, which probably eased the pain of not getting residuals for all the Ealing comedies he did.

Lucas had a good reputation after the success of American Graffiti. Guinness stated in the original making of ESB book that he signed on to Star Wars primarily because of meeting with George, and feeling that he could trust this young director.

Hamill has discussed how he annoyed "Sir Alec" on the set in the past.

I had that one too! Actually, I still have it, but I'm pretty sure it's scratched up and unplayable even if I had a turntable. I found a 8 track copy in a thrift store once, but my deck self destructed before I could capture it. :/

Pity there's never been a CD of it. The "Stereo Space Odyssey" side has cool sound effects mixed into the tracks.

It ought to come in a life size Jar Jar head with voice chip. You must pull his tongue to release the discs within...

Bingowings said:

^Yeah that's pretty odd.

This was my first record, check out the wacky additions to the Enterprise.

Not the oddest rendition of the Enterprise I've ever seen, but close.

Luke and Leia look they wandered in from a 70's spy novel cover. Why Troy Tempest is on there instead of one of the Thunderbirds cast is weird too. I guess all Supermarionation puppets look alike to some people. ;)

Check out the bizarre record album cover in this auction.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lot-Of-Vintage-Star-Wars-Records-And-Star-Wars-Laserdisc-1982-/251165877287?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3a7aa72427

I had a few cover versions of the SW soundtrack over the years, but the art on this one takes the cake! We need an archive of these things...

It's a cool avatar. But is it Dan O' Herlihy from Halloween III, or evil Ted Baxter from the mirror universe Mary Tyler Moore show? ;)

It might only be a minor historical curiosity, but I recall Maurice Binder saying in a 80's Starlog magazine interview how he would do an "HBO version" of the main title sequences, after seeing how some of his earlier widescreen compositions got mangled on tv. Presumably, this was only done for the later Moore films onward.

I once saw a splitscreen youtube clip showing how different the title placement was on "A View to A Kill" between pan and scan and lettterbox versions, but can't find it now.

Remember the last time your PC crashed? Imagine that happening on the ISS. Just because NASA isn't running the latest PC tech up there doesn't mean it's unreliable buggy crap.

The Shuttle was not a white elephant, it was a space truck. That's all it was ever intended to be. I got a chuckle when someone asked me why they don't have shuttle flights to the moon. If I had to choose between the Shuttle and those creaky Russian Soyuz capsules were stuck with at the moment, I'd fly American. ;)

I toured Cape Canaveral over the summer. Big things are happening there. The old shuttle launch pad is being rebuilt to handle a rocket the likes of we haven't seen since the mighty Saturn V.

On the Air Force side of the base, a row of ancient aircraft hangars are being refurbished for their new tenants. Space X already operates out of one. The privatization of space travel is going to be a game changer.

I really wish NASA had not torn down the one historic building I know for sure my father worked in back in the 60's. :(

AntcuFaalb said:

SilverWook said:

Ah, but is it letterboxed? ;)

Why can't Laserdiscs still be alive and kicking somewhere? *cries*

 

:-(

Don't mind me. Every time I see brand new records for sale, I think it's a rack of LD's.

A recent DVD release of an 80's horror movie actually includes a VHS copy. I couldn't see much of the actual tape inside the box though.

I've seen some creative folks create fake VHS covers, (complete with shelf wear) for movies that never existed. Love to see someone make a fake LD jacket for some recent film.

Ah, but is it letterboxed? ;)

Why can't Laserdiscs still be alive and kicking somewhere? *cries*

Thanks for the file. Interesting it has the English titles.

Why is it shot off a tv screen?

Holy! We don't even know what's on that VHS tape yet. ;)

Are we talking a different dub, editing, or both?

Not me. The LD listing is still active though.

Youtube truly has gone from suck to blow.

This would have to have been spread across two tapes, right? I never saw a U-matic tape longer than 90 minutes, and those were hard to get by the end of the 80's, at least they were in my neck of the woods.

Would be nice to see pictures of the tape if possible?

My personal experience with CBS/Fox is they used really horrible tape stock back then. And look how many different video masters for Star Wars have been documented, all sporting similar packaging.

TServo2049 said:

Wow, I really screwed up, didn't I? I guess I meant to say, it's the only version that's *not compressed to 192kbps.*

Another thing which needs to be captured is a PCM mono track from an LD of The Wizard of Oz (perhaps the "Ultimate Oz" box set?). All DVD/Blu-ray releases from 1999 onward have a weird error in the parlor scene in Kansas; before '99, Dorothy said "Oh, Toto, don't..." but in all the DVD/Blu-ray releases except for the original MGM one, it cuts off mid-sentence. Even the "restored" mono track on the more recent releases has this problem.

Again, the original MGM DVD has the mono track as it used to sound, but it's compressed Dolby Digital. An uncompressed version can only be found on laserdisc.

IIRC, someone over at the HTF claimed this was a mistake made by those restoring the soundtrack for the last major theatrical reissue, and it's been carried over ever since.

I captured a 1983 Oz  LD just for fun, (before putting it into the donation box) as it was an unrestored print with black and white Kansas scenes, but the soundtrack was very noisy. I do have the 50th anniversary LD which I will be keeping in my permanent collection though.

Another preservation I've been contemplating is Danger Diabolik. The Laserdisc features a different English dub than the DVD. All the actors save John Phillip Law and Marisa Mell have different voices,  and the lines are often said differently between the two versions. Not the mention I dig the Italian credits on the LD. ;)

If you ever saw the movie on MST3K, the most infamous line is not on the DVD dub!

Leia looks like a Frank Frazetta babe in that first concept. Apparently there is lingerie in space after all!

That Empire painting might be a good cover for Puggo's recent project...

Saw Lazenby on CNN today, and he's looking good for his age.

Too bad nobody has thought of getting all the "retired" Bonds together for a cameo in Skyfall to celebrate the 50th anniversary. They wouldn't even have to say anything, just be sitting around a table in tuxes while a waiter brings them martinis. ;)

Wow!

Given how murderously hot those Rubie's Chewie costumes are, it's death defying to dance around in one.

It's the rumor that won't die!

This looks like the cheapest copy of an early Fox pressing of FRWL at the moment. Doesn't come with the jacket though.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Laserdisc-No-Jacket-James-Bond-007-From-Russia-With-Love-EP-Connery-/230840128906?pt=US_Laserdisc&hash=item35bf24d58a

skyjedi2005, I remember HBO running the Bond movies circa 1980 or so. Was a big deal at the time, and they hyped the heck out of it. Beat the heck out of ABC's "edited for television" versions.

Bilbo Baggins of Vulcan? Or Gollum after a nice Florida vacation?

It's depressing to think nearly half the cast of Babylon 5 has died.

It's amazing most of the original Star Trek cast is still with us, and all of the TNG cast are still around.