SilverWook

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Post: #242769
Topic: Possible Preservation Project - The Secret War of Harry Frigg?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/242769/action/topic#242769
Time: 10-Sep-2006 9:05 PM

There's no listing for it on the LDDB either.
TCM has a page for it where you can apparently suggest it be scheduled, and vote for a DVD release as well.
http://tcmdb.com/title/title.jsp?stid=89477

Post: #242566
Topic: Info: Anyone Got A Spare 1300 Bucks? Star Wars 16mm on ebay...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/242566/action/topic#242566
Time: 9-Sep-2006 11:24 PM

Looks like those auctions were scuttled.

Post: #242545
Topic: Info: Anyone Got A Spare 1300 Bucks? Star Wars 16mm on ebay...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/242545/action/topic#242545
Time: 9-Sep-2006 7:02 PM

Yeah, you would need an anamorphic lens on the projector to show it properly on a movie screen. But you wouldn't need it for a transfer.

Post: #242543
Topic: Episode VI: ROTJ - What Has Changed?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/242543/action/topic#242543
Time: 9-Sep-2006 6:59 PM

Why would the citizens of a "wretched hive of scum and villiany" be celebrating outside in 100 degree temps anyway?

Post: #242531
Topic: Info: Anyone Got A Spare 1300 Bucks? Star Wars 16mm on ebay...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/242531/action/topic#242531
Time: 9-Sep-2006 4:51 PM

The Sniper 16mm Units might be up to snuff visually, but are silent. So more expense (another projector with a line output) and sync work if you want the soundtrack off a movie!

Post: #242387
Topic: Info: Anyone Got A Spare 1300 Bucks? Star Wars 16mm on ebay...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/242387/action/topic#242387
Time: 8-Sep-2006 10:41 PM

Of all the SW 16mm prints I've seen listed on Ebay, these sound the most beaten up.

Be advised the bidding on these things do get nutty. If the prints look halfway decent, there will be guys with deep pockets jumping into the fray.

Post: #242267
Topic: 2006 OT DVD: Are my eyes deceiving me?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/242267/action/topic#242267
Time: 8-Sep-2006 3:58 PM

Well, I long thought Artoo's panels changed color in space because they are temperature sensitive material. Heck, the little guy could be absorbing solar energy with them so he doesn't freeze up! If Lucasfilm would go the Star Trek route of logically explaining away seeming bloopers and technical goofs, they wouldn't have to be fixing them later.

Post: #242111
Topic: Just saw TV ad for DVDs for the first time....
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/242111/action/topic#242111
Time: 7-Sep-2006 10:12 PM

You want the negatives and everything else from the OT to go up in smoke too? Stop wishing for bad things to happen.

Post: #241604
Topic: So, this is how the DVDs are going to look...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/241604/action/topic#241604
Time: 5-Sep-2006 11:46 PM

Okay, I recall the discussion over the crawl in the promo looking fake, but where is info about the crawl on the actual DVD being a recreation coming from?

Post: #241543
Topic: So, this is how the DVDs are going to look...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/241543/action/topic#241543
Time: 5-Sep-2006 9:13 PM

Thanks for putting these up for all to see. The crawl does look like the real deal. I can see the wobble a bit there too. I wonder if the original crawl was transferred back then for a possible LD boxset extra and then nixed? It will be interesting to compare this to the Empire of Dreams clip.

Post: #241079
Topic: .: The XØ Project - Laserdisc on Steroids :. (SEE FIRST POST FOR UPDATES) (* unfinished project *)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/241079/action/topic#241079
Time: 4-Sep-2006 4:32 AM

So, does the difference between NSTC systems explain why Japanese LD's often seem to look better than their American counterparts?
I wonder if the OT bonus discs are coming out in Japan...

Post: #240842
Topic: Making our own 35mm preservation--my crazy proposal
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/240842/action/topic#240842
Time: 3-Sep-2006 4:13 AM

The interesting thing is even with Super 8, I'm seeing a lot of those missing starfields. And more amusingly, a lot of stray hairs sticking out of Leia's sidebuns in the scene with Tarkin!

Post: #240839
Topic: The Blob!
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/240839/action/topic#240839
Time: 3-Sep-2006 4:07 AM

It looks more like something was spilled on the film more than anything else. If there were any compositing problems in those shots there would be anomalies around the tauntaun or the Rebel transport, as everything else in the shot is "real". And I think we're all familar with what garbage mattes look like by now.

Given the number of bugs that crept in when the video masters for the DC boxset were made, I can believe somebody was drinking in the telecine room and had a little accident!

Post: #240619
Topic: X-Wing or Y-Wing, which ship would you prefer?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/240619/action/topic#240619
Time: 2-Sep-2006 1:59 AM

I have a soft spot for the Y-Wing. It's probably the A-10 Warthog of the SW universe. And the Holiday Special proved it's much more useful in a water landing.

Post: #240575
Topic: Making our own 35mm preservation--my crazy proposal
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/240575/action/topic#240575
Time: 1-Sep-2006 10:35 PM

Since the same problems apply, would a super 8 or 16mm transfer be worth the effort at this point?

Post: #240570
Topic: Slideshow of ANH changes since 1977
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/240570/action/topic#240570
Time: 1-Sep-2006 10:15 PM

The official site has a slideshow up for Empire now. Quite an eye opener if you thought Empire was retouched the least. And there's a line in there about this being the only DVD release of the unaltered OT!
http://www.starwars.com/episode-v/release/video/f20060901/index.html

Post: #240518
Topic: The Artistic Vision (TM Luca$hFilm)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/240518/action/topic#240518
Time: 1-Sep-2006 7:45 PM

I've been watching the animated Flash Gordon series from 1979 on DVD, and in the commentary they mention having the movie rights, which they sold to Dino DeLaurentis to fund the tv version. (Filmation was initially going to make a live action Flash tv-movie, but the script became too expensive to shoot that way.) Which means either Filmation was in the right place and right time or King Features was more interested in having something done with Flash post Star Wars...
In the making of book for the first Star Trek movie, Lucas was one of many people considered for the director's chair. This was slightly before SW was out, (still referred to as "The Star Wars" in a Paramount memo) and the book doesn't elaborate if Roddenberry and Co. actually talked with him.

Post: #240092
Topic: Star Trek gets better treatment than Star Wars...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/240092/action/topic#240092
Time: 31-Aug-2006 4:22 PM

Wait and see is probably a good idea at this point. I'm not crazy about them messing with the classic opening theme music though. And if the original untouched episodes are never released on future formats, that's just as bad as leaving the original cut of the first Trek movie behind to gather dust on Laserdisc and videotapes. And the effects in the so-called "Director's Edition" apparently were not done to HD resolutions, so they'll have to redo that one too!

Post: #239260
Topic: Star Trek gets better treatment than Star Wars...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/239260/action/topic#239260
Time: 28-Aug-2006 8:50 PM

Redoing the 60's FX work, (some of which did win an emmy or two) has been very controversial in fan circles ever since some now defunct CGI fx house proposed it to Paramount almost a decade ago. They redid a couple scenes from "The Doomsday Machine" episode as a proof of concept. A bit creaky by today's standard, but the idea never totally went away. And of course, fan films like "Starship Exeter" have great effects shots now. (Paramount ought to hire those guys!)
It will be a miracle if every film and sound element from TNG, DS9, and Voyager was saved over the years.

Post: #239211
Topic: Slideshow of ANH changes since 1977
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/239211/action/topic#239211
Time: 28-Aug-2006 4:42 PM

The Rontos were actually the Brontosaurus model from Jurassic Park recycled. (Hence the name.) I still can't figure out what use such a beast would be to anybody on a planet like Tatooine. Is there a rock quarry outside Mos Eisely someplace?

Post: #239016
Topic: The Last Supper Meets Star Wars...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/239016/action/topic#239016
Time: 27-Aug-2006 10:11 PM

Humorous pop culture crossover with classical art, or a lost scene from the DaVinci Code?

See here.

Post: #239001
Topic: Slideshow of ANH changes since 1977
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/239001/action/topic#239001
Time: 27-Aug-2006 8:54 PM

Amazing. And some of the improvements create their own bloopers. The Death Star hangar bay Han Solo now chases the stormtroopers into still has the light reflection on the floor from the original dead end wall that was digitally erased.

Post: #238996
Topic: Star Wars before 1977
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/238996/action/topic#238996
Time: 27-Aug-2006 8:29 PM

Great find. I wonder what they meant by "Hollywood's current sci-fi fixation" though. Aside from Logan's Run, there wasn't a whole lot of SF movies being made by the big studios at the time.

Post: #238505
Topic: .: The XØ Project - Laserdisc on Steroids :. (SEE FIRST POST FOR UPDATES) (* unfinished project *)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/238505/action/topic#238505
Time: 25-Aug-2006 3:57 PM

The side by side comparison screenshots are going to be really interesting to see.

Post: #238387
Topic: Good comparison website
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/238387/action/topic#238387
Time: 25-Aug-2006 5:08 AM

The text on the revised Jawa sandcrawler shot is amusing, as the "technological" improvement involved was simply reshooting the original miniature from a different angle.