SilverWook

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Post: #221121
Topic: Info Wanted: The Original Trilogy on HBO TV in the 80s
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/221121/action/topic#221121
Time: 23-Jun-2006 2:51 AM

The off-air Beta recordings I've got of ANH from cable back then sport a mono downmix of the Dolby Stereo mix. You'd think it would have been easier for them to use the actual mono track! HBO allegedly used a 16mm print. Some scenes are pan and scanned differently from the video releases and shots like Luke's macrobinocular POV of the lurking Tusken Raiders are squeezed to fit the tv screen.

Post: #220689
Topic: 1977 70mm soundtrack recording (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/220689/action/topic#220689
Time: 21-Jun-2006 8:59 PM

Having heard it in it's entirety recently, I actually like the mono mix! It might even be what the Academy voters were listening to in 1978. And mono movies don't sound bad at all with the right equipment. I don't know about other home theater amps, but Yahama has a "five channel stereo" mode that can wrap a mono track around your head without any fake stereo effects.

And morgands1, let me add to the chorus of thanks for sharing that recording with us!

Post: #219657
Topic: Info Wanted: Has anyone done any Unaltered Disney Classics preservations?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/219657/action/topic#219657
Time: 18-Jun-2006 3:19 AM

On a side note, how many workprints of Disney films are floating around? I once saw a timecoded version of The Great Mouse Detective with many unfinished scenes ala the "Work in Progress" version of Beauty and the Beast.

Post: #219586
Topic: Say the SE release in theaters bombed in 1997?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/219586/action/topic#219586
Time: 18-Jun-2006 12:35 AM

I don't think the 2002 E.T. release was small scale. There was plenty of hype at the time. The most unintentionally funny of which was an outdoor(?) screening at the Winter Olympics, where they got American athletes to prattle for the camera about how good the special edition was over the original version. I somehow doubted they even knew what they were talking about, and some were a bit young to be claiming to have seen it in theaters the first time around!

Post: #219010
Topic: Lucasfilm to sell Physical Effects Unit
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/219010/action/topic#219010
Time: 16-Jun-2006 12:12 AM

Do you think Lucas ever regrets selling off Pixar?

There were some model sets and minatures used in all the prequels. But that would have required someone actually doing research before writing this article.

Post: #218656
Topic: 2006 OT Bonus DVD Material question
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/218656/action/topic#218656
Time: 14-Jun-2006 9:50 PM

There are too many little things in them that contradict what Lucas says now about the OT to ever let them see the light of day again. Thank goodness for the Laserdiscs!

Post: #218331
Topic: Does George even read his own stuff?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/218331/action/topic#218331
Time: 13-Jun-2006 7:41 PM

The "there is another" line was Lucas' wiggle room if something happened to Mark Hamill between films, (he already had a nasty car accident) much as Han getting frozen gave everyone an out if Harrison didn't want to come back. The old "Making of a Saga" documentary strongly implies they didn't come up with Leia being Luke's sister until they were on the set of Jedi, trying to come up with something for Vader to say to provoke Luke into fighting him.

Post: #217817
Topic: 2006 MTV movie awards...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/217817/action/topic#217817
Time: 11-Jun-2006 4:53 PM

The muppets in the senate chamber cracked me up. Anakin's turn is more credible now, and any movie that puts hundreds of darts in JarJar can't be all bad!

Post: #217733
Topic: 2006 MTV movie awards...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/217733/action/topic#217733
Time: 10-Jun-2006 8:36 PM

But....Chewie playing drums!

My only nit is that should have been Boba Fett and not Jango on keyboard.

Post: #217692
Topic: 2006 MTV movie awards...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/217692/action/topic#217692
Time: 10-Jun-2006 3:47 PM

Not since the Donny and Marie skit have pop culture and a Galaxy Far Far Away collided like this!

Post: #217690
Topic: ROTS: Is there a single one?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/217690/action/topic#217690
Time: 10-Jun-2006 3:29 PM

IIRC, they aren't even on location in Tunisia for that shot. It's another bluescreen set. There were photos circulating a long time back showing Obi Wan giving a bundle to Owen on location during production of Episode II, (only not shot at sunset) but for some reason they didn't use that footage.

EDIT: Twister beat me to it. Good find!

Post: #217569
Topic: Help: looking for... Chewbacca at the MTV Awards (Getting an Award)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/217569/action/topic#217569
Time: 9-Jun-2006 10:13 PM

I'll try to. I have a lot of other stuff I'm trying to transfer right now.

Post: #217494
Topic: Help: looking for... Chewbacca at the MTV Awards (Getting an Award)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/217494/action/topic#217494
Time: 9-Jun-2006 3:55 PM

I'm not aware of it being on any commercial release. I may still have it on Super-VHS somewhere...

Post: #217298
Topic: The Other side of the 30th Anniversary
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/217298/action/topic#217298
Time: 8-Jun-2006 8:43 PM

We are talking some sort of new 3D process in any case. No red/blue glasses of the 50's or the polarized lenses that gave people headaches in the 80's. I just wish Lucas had been passionate enough about 3-D to have Viewmaster reels shot when the OT were being filmed.

Post: #217023
Topic: Penny Arcade's take on the OT DVD situation...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/217023/action/topic#217023
Time: 7-Jun-2006 8:35 PM

The truth revealed!

Post: #216864
Topic: 6/6/06...the day of IRON VADER !!!
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/216864/action/topic#216864
Time: 7-Jun-2006 4:22 AM

I was laughing off this 6/6/06 thing today. Right up to the point my Laserdisc player self-destructed with Battle for Endor trapped inside.

Post: #216505
Topic: Info Wanted: What is the preservation project closest to the original 1977 release?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/216505/action/topic#216505
Time: 5-Jun-2006 11:26 PM

Wow! Hearing the 1970's audience reaction on a DVD track would be something really special!

Post: #215890
Topic: Info Wanted: A Medal For Chewbacca?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/215890/action/topic#215890
Time: 3-Jun-2006 6:00 PM

Chewie actually got his long overdue medal at the MTV movie awards in the late 90's, presented to him by Carrie Fisher no less!

Post: #215093
Topic: A Very Star Wars Christmas
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/215093/action/topic#215093
Time: 31-May-2006 2:26 PM

The shot of Christopher Lee in a Vader-style helmet comes from a 1982 movie called "Safari 3000" about an African road race. (It's a bit like Cannonball Run.) The character he played was called Count Borgia.
The "Wampa" shots are from a Bigfoot movie whose title I can't recall. The date the review was posted ought to be a dead giveaway.

Post: #214000
Topic: Giorgio Moroder's Metropolis (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/214000/action/topic#214000
Time: 26-May-2006 9:23 PM

The LDDB lists two different pressings of the American Laserdisc, so it's possible there was a remaster. I'll have to rewatch my LD because I don't recall it looking bad at all!

Post: #213657
Topic: 5-25-1977 - Happy Birthday, Star Wars
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/213657/action/topic#213657
Time: 25-May-2006 10:45 PM

They will milk the 30th anniversary for all it's worth, trust me.

Anyone for some cake?

http://images.andale.com/f2/119/116/22001548/1130224731180_SW_HAPPY_BIRTHDAY_j.jpg

http://media.bladezone.com/contents/film/interviews/john-alvin/sw-10th.jpg

Post: #213499
Topic: Anyone noticed the date?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/213499/action/topic#213499
Time: 25-May-2006 3:56 PM

I care!

Post: #213261
Topic: The Official Lucasfilm Response
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/213261/action/topic#213261
Time: 25-May-2006 12:00 AM

So, Radioland Murders comes out on DVD for the second time, and I'm still waiting for Howard the Duck!?

Post: #213045
Topic: The Official Lucasfilm Response
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/213045/action/topic#213045
Time: 24-May-2006 3:07 PM

Unprocessed, unretouched raw bitmap screenshot from an early attempt at Super 8 film reel capture. Apologies if it's a tad huge!

http://www.jetlink.net/~grysken/SilverWook/PDVD_113.bmp

Need I say more?

Post: #212350
Topic: Idea: Combine some prints with color from LD !
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/212350/action/topic#212350
Time: 22-May-2006 4:18 PM

That's not as crazy as it sounds. Some vintage Dr. Who episodes that survive only as black and white 16mm film have been combined with the color signal taken from a fan's off-air Betamax recording from the 70's! The kind of gear required might be more than what anybody here has handy though.
Dr. Who restoration site.
Direct link to color restoration article.