My little experiments were laughed off by that damn beta tape. I did discover the JVC DVD recorder will accept the signal even though it's rolling, so I should be able to grab frames between rolls for color reference.
Like Lucasfilm would have given permisson anyway.
If there is a "moratorium", it doesn't seem like it would matter if it's free admission to begin with.
So how did that Boston theater get away with it's free screening last year?
My offer was accepted. So we will have the '86 Laserdisc as a reference soon. :)
I was thinking about taking photos of all my copies of THX one of these days. Can we squeeze a photo gallery on the DVD?
That's another possible reason. I think the green Lucasfilm logo actually dates back to American Graffiti though?
I doubt it as the Kinney regime wasn't in charge by then. Studio logos get changed more often than underwear!
I was listening the commentary track on The Shining recently, and Kubrick agonizing over the size and color of his titles was discussed. I actually have an old Japanese LD of the film where the closing credits are in the same blue as the opening titles. Every other video release I've ever seen the closing credits are always white. So this isn't a totally unique situation...
The Japanese '86 THX disc on the LDDB has a best offer option, so I'll give it a shot. :)
I mean whatever film elements was used to make the video master. They would have had to make a new transfer for the Laserdisc verison.
I wish the pan and scan Japanese LD would pop up on Ebay. It came out in 1986, and I've only ever seen one copy for sale on the LDDB. I really want to see the colors on that.
Okay, good. Want to try a couple unorthodox things with the Betamax copy before I break down and buy that Grex unit.
Is it possible the titles faded between the early 80's video transfer and the early 90's Letterbox LD master?
Should I look at the Laserdisc and see if this artifact is there? Keep in mind this is a non-anamorphic widescreen image being blown up and viewed on hig resolution monitors that didn't exist when the disc was made...
One low tech idea I had for degrading the DVD video to match the LD would be to record the analog 4:3 output of a DVD player to my Super VHS deck, (Which is close to Laserdisc in resolution) and then capture that back to DVD. This would require a player that defeats macrovision, or the aforementioned gizmo I was thinking of buying to work though!
Uh, wow. Clinically insane or on controlled substances?
Might leave behind?
If my late father appeared to me in spectral form, younger than I ever knew him in life, head pasted on someone else's body, and he wasn't even making proper eye contact, it would scare the piss out of me! ;)
You also said they are "just movies"? That implies they have no more importance or value beyond the latest box office spectacular. Are people going to waxing nostalgic about being at the first showing of Transformers 3 twenty years from now?
When people start to think Jabba was created and inserted into the film in 1977, it's unfortunate. Thirty years from now, how will kids know what they're seeing isn't the original real deal? If I watch a film made in 1939, I have a reasonable expectation I'm seeing what people in 1939 actually saw. That requires some honesty on the part of the studio and the filmmakers.
There are THX-1138 reviews on the web that seem totally oblivious to the massive changes done to that film. And Lucas has deliberately not talked about the CGI additions. Re-writing the history of a movie begins with omission.
Gone With The Wind, The Wizard of Oz, Citizen Kane, Casablanca, and Lawrence of Arabia are just movies too.
But they are also more than that. Why else would people spend time and money on their preservation and restoration?
They and many other films are part of our culture. As is Star Wars. When Ronald Reagan called the Soviet Union "The Evil Empire", it was obvious what film imagery he was invoking. When the Strategic Defense Initiative got nicknamed "Star Wars", even Lucas couldn't stop the press from using the moniker, much to his dismay.
That Superbowl ad with the kid in the Vader costume proves how powerful the original films are in people's minds even today. You're not about to see an expensive tv commercial with someone dressed as a prequel character! ;)
Didn't Lucas basically give his blessing to fan edits several years ago? I can't recall the exact quote...
No love for the "Weird Science" version of Jabba, or Luke's girly scream fall in Empire?
It would be really funny if the 97's got transferred by mistake. The post release fanboy rationalizations would be interesting reading! ;)
Could have been a lot worse. They could have slapped Mr. Binks' face on one of them! ;)
Lucas will never be rid of the original versions. (He would love the Holiday Special to vanish, and we all know that turned out!) We're keeping them alive, even if all one does is show them to friends and loved ones instead of the SE's.
Video project Puggo Grande on a wall at the next Celebration, and throw down the gauntlet! ;)
As we talked about importing the American Zoetrope logo from the '04 anyway, I don't see a problem with borrowing other shots if they aren't buggered up with CGI enhancements.
I'm still contemplating coughing up a hundred bucks for one of these little gizmos so I could capture the Betamax copy for reference.
I can only think of one other videotape I have left that would benefit from it though.
I doubt anybody here is actually thinking that. It's just a little crack of light in the darkness that somebody at Spike actually knows which version is which.
And 500,000 might not seem like a lot of people until you try and make a dinner reservation. ;)
I have to wonder if Spike can keep running the movies during the window of the Blu Ray release?
I would be more interested in Star Wars' effect on world history. The 1980's would have been very different without Star Wars around!
If you need some inspiration for menu ideas later on, the official movie website has some interesting imagery.
It's been tried around here in the past, to no avail. You'd need the playback gear and the corresponding print for the discs to play.
Speaking of audio, does someone want to archive these auction photos?
All three sets of theatrical DTS discs don't pop up very often.
Refresh my memory as to where I uploaded the SEN clip last time, and I'll put this up right away.