SilverWook

I know. I keep mistaking new records for Laserdiscs at a distance. ;)

I think these sort of presentations have been going on at cons and trade shows for decades. It's not exclusive to Star Wars or Lucasfilm.

And if the setting had been Jabba's palace with buxom slave girls of several species showing off the Blu Rays, the Humdinger would never have been spotted at all! ;)

This is probably one of the more unusual magazines to cover THX when it came out.

Not safe for work!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ADAM-FILM-Sexploitation-THX-1138-Lucas-PERFORMANCE-/390334494435?pt=Magazines&hash=item5ae1bfb6e3

Anchorhead said:

RATLSNAKE said:

...a display "experience" ....It's things like this that make people look down on us Star Wars fans.

I agree 100%.   Those fully-costumed adults speaking and acting as though it's all real - that shit is tough to watch.  Actually, it's beyond that.  It's just plain embarrassing.  I get the same feeling whenever I see Lucas explaining the saga as though it were real. 

 

Dude, it's Comic Con! You can't go five feet without bumping into a stormtrooper. Or a Slave Leia. ;)

Last time I checked, there were fully costumed adults at Disneyland who act like Star Tours is a real spaceport...

You really ought to give the original version a try. It has the seeds of everything George does with Star Wars.

In the documentary it's discussed how Lucas complained they were still using footage of the puppet Yoda. If it had been made expressly for the concert, I doubt that would have been an issue.

As has been said elsewhere, the new Yoda has already been spotted at the "Star Wars in Concert" presentations. The PBS documentary about the concert tour also confirmed the change.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6T4A8IclkI

Kurt said:

Very interesting footage.

 

But please, all people considering to buy the set now...

Please DO NOT !

Get it somewhere else, ca. 3 hours after the set has been released.

 

I hope that faneditors won´t get too excited, putting every single DS into their cuts.

(if they should be restored to decent quality at all)

Especially the binocular & Anchorhead Luke scenes shouldn´t ever, NEVER ever, be included into STAR WARS.

It messes the structure up badly, Luke acts like a douche, and it doesn´t work as character introduction.

Does "The War of the Stars" ring any bells? :P

That was a LucasArts computer game, right?

Anchorhead said:

Bingowings said:

Coming soon Commander Ben Dover and Captain Ivor Biggun.

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Many years ago, when I worked in a large printing facility, we were required to wear dress-style uniforms because we were a high-tech printing facility. Neatness and formality were the order of the day because our customers were high-end (Microsoft, Apple, Norton, Ashton Tate, etc). 

I thought it would be humorous to make a custom name patch for my uniform. I put a lot of work into it and it matched the real ones perfectly.  I replaced my name with the name Ben Dover.  About a week later, the supervisor for the California operations was in town to visit the three plants that made up our division.

I don't have to tell you - I got dressed down pretty severely for that one.  Seems they failed to see the humor.  Hey, when you're 23 you sometimes do stupid stuff.  It did look real though.
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Some of my peers in college were fond of slipping names like "Jack Mehoff" into the credits of the boring talk shows we slaved on. The teacher wasn't terribly amused when he finally noticed months later. I don't think he ever found out about the pixelated frames from an adult film someone else used as a background graphic!

General McCracken? Because he's a crack shot? Ouch. Lucasfilm is running out of clever names...

And now for some real Space Boobs! ;)

People break up box sets and sell individual discs on Ebay all the time. ;)

Nothing new for Hasbro, they did some sandstorm scene figures a couple years back. I almost bought the Chewie with the bandaged up leg!

Anyone who complains about today's SW figs being too detailed never spooked the mailman waiting for their early bird figures to arrive as a kid. My old Kenner figures looked like they were carved out of a bar of soap compared to what kids have now! ;)

And who the heck is General Cracken?

EDIT:Nevermind!

Aside from Criterion, I don't think too many of the studios were going the extra mile in proper video transfers of old dodgy print elements, even in the early 90's.

I just watched an animated film on a Hong Kong Laserdisc, (circa 1990) and I was surprised at the tracking errors and dropouts of the video master used. The soundtrack was in mono in spite of a Ultra Stereo credit at the end.

The white fiend is Coily the Spring Sprite, star of the short film "A Case of Spring Fever", made infamous by Mystery Science Theater 3000. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v58argQ3l-M

There's a similar thing going on with the print Puggo used for Stjärnornas Krig in several places. It could be a light source leaking into the telecine?

And I think I've finally identified our mysterious white friend. ;)

EDIT:Fixed broken image link. I have no idea what happened with the first one!

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Photos of the Y-Wing have surfaced before. Curiously it's not visible in the famous unused matte painting of the Falcon and X-Wing parked near the cave where Luke works on his new saber.

Are we supposed to believe Leia rode in the cargo hold of the X-Wing, or that they abandoned a perfectly good Y-Wing on Tattooine in the middle of a war? ;)

http://shopping.yahoo.com/articles/yshoppingarticles/648/100-things-your-kids-may-never-know-about/

#81 and #82 are relevant here. A couple others are also relevant as we try to squeeze good things out of various old video and film formats around here. :)

CP3S said:

Anchorhead said:

danny_boy said:

But in doing so our ability just to enjoy a film for a film's sake has diminished.

Not all of us. 

Story is the only thing that's ever mattered to me.

...

Regarding film grain & dirt;  It doesn't bother me in the least.  In fact, I never give it any thought.

Completely agree with this. I guess it is easy for some people to get caught up in our presentation obsessed culture, but that alone just doesn't do it for me.

Of course, I am one of those who complain about how bad the GOUT looks and would really love to see the OOT on proper blu-ray release someday before I get too old to care. So clearly presentation isn't meaningless to me, but definitely secondary to story. Which is why I'd rather just stick with my crummy second hand GOUT (sounds gross) than waste money on the BDs.

These deleted scenes are great, but a perfect example of Mr. Cutting Edge Technology Lucas being several years behind the times. Just about every other crappy film in existence had a DVD release with deleted scenes on it. This sort of thing should have been on the '04 box set, if it had been living up to the standards of most other major DVD sets of the time.

Try 18 years behind the times. These should have been on the 1993 Definitive Collection Laserdisc set. There were plenty of LD's on the market with deleted scenes included at the time, mostly from Criterion.

It's bad enough that thing floats around the edges of my vision when I'm not watching the movie! ;)

msycamore said:

No, I had problem register on that site for some reason, maybe you could give it a shot? It would be really nice to have it in better quality.

SilverWook, can you do me one last favor, how does the color look on this computer screen...

...on that LD/Beta transfer? Don't necessarily need a screenshot of it, I'm just a little curious about this one as the colors are very unstable on this particular screen. (it's bright green in the 2004 DVD) Want to rule out any possible flaw in the LD transfer.

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TK-949 said:

Yeah, sure.

The PT deleted scenes were all remasered and pimped up with special effects, soundeffects and music and the OT deleted scenes are treated like the bad step child. That's just f*cking great. With our luck they're also in SD.

Stuff from the cutting room floor wasn't as highly regarded when the films were made like they are now. It's probably a miracle any of it has survived at all.

Things were different when the Prequels were made, as deleted scenes now had value as a DVD extra, so they were treated with more care. And in the case of Episodes II and III, they probably had dozens of copies of the digital tapes used.

The deleted scenes from a classic like Forbidden Planet only seem to survive as a VHS copy of a workprint. Criterion and later Warners haven't been too specific about the source of that, but it's safe bet a hard core fan rescued the footage originally, and the workprint no longer exists.

Download link posted at HTF.

https://rcpt.yousendit.com/1176218315/fdf2189dd6393a71db11e22676ad0c41

Someone at the HTF posted a download link. Nice to have as the SW.com video player gives my browser seizures.

https://rcpt.yousendit.com/1176218315/fdf2189dd6393a71db11e22676ad0c41

Interesting how the edges of the frame resemble Puggo Grande in some scenes. Could some of this footage only exist as 16mm?

Wampa attack! Hot damn!

And that scene of Luke at the vaporator watching the battle overhead exists in color after all!

This could be a fan editor's dream come true.