SilverWook

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Post: #211698
Topic: Info: a Big bust at the Motor City Comic Con - bootleg sellers
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/211698/action/topic#211698
Time: 20-May-2006 4:13 AM

What else were they selling? I haven't been to a comic con in years, but in the pre-DVD days it was mostly obscure anime and old tv shows. (Like the Holiday Special.) I seldom if ever saw anything that was already legally out on video or still in theaters. Of course, in this day and age, the whole show of force may have been a high profile photo-op.
Now I have a lurid vision of the Simpson's Comic Book Guy being led off in shackles!

Post: #211694
Topic: New DVDs NOT 16x9
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/211694/action/topic#211694
Time: 20-May-2006 3:49 AM

The fact that someone like Robert Harris is weighing in on the whole mess over at the HTF helps legitimize things a lot. It raises the discussion to a serious level about the proper presentation/treatment of a historically and culturally significant trio of films. It's not just pissed off fanboys anymore!

Post: #211238
Topic: Watch this if you haven't seen it!
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/211238/action/topic#211238
Time: 18-May-2006 8:43 PM

It emphasizes what a desolate hole Tatooine is, (before the prequels made it plot-point central anyway) and gives Luke more background. Plus, it would make the whole reinstated Biggs scene on Yavin in the SE make sense to non-fanboys. But, then again former Prince Charles' shagger and ex-porn star Koo Stark is in this footage...

Post: #210261
Topic: ITS HAPPENED-- OOT AVAILABLE FROM LUCASFILM
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/210261/action/topic#210261
Time: 16-May-2006 10:29 PM

Didn't last year's double-dip use some of the original poster art? And why does Vader look like he' s going for the last donut in the Excecutor's mess hall?

Post: #210106
Topic: Do you ever wish that there you had never heard of Star Wars?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/210106/action/topic#210106
Time: 16-May-2006 4:33 PM

Never! The creative spark the first one lit in me and the memories of seeing all of them on the big screen are priceless.

Post: #209766
Topic: James Earl Jones's Miraculous Resurrection!
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/209766/action/topic#209766
Time: 15-May-2006 4:12 PM

A Wiki is the last source I'd turn to for concrete information on anything.

Post: #209394
Topic: FAN EDIT REQUEST THREAD - Post your dream Fan Edits Here!
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/209394/action/topic#209394
Time: 14-May-2006 5:19 AM

While watching the new Psycho, I actually pondered what it would look like if you mixed them together. Tony Perkins' Norman doing in Anne Heche's character, etc. It would be surreal!

Post: #209391
Topic: Info Wanted: MUSE HI-Vision LDs - has anyone done a preservation of this?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/209391/action/topic#209391
Time: 14-May-2006 5:07 AM

It's a neat idea. However, the reviews on this site talk about some MUSE titles having compression artifacts of their own.

Post: #209300
Topic: Giorgio Moroder's Metropolis (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/209300/action/topic#209300
Time: 13-May-2006 11:20 PM

Okay, IIRC, the article I read in the 80's said Moroder found some lost footage in the form of stills made from each frame of the film. (Which apparently was done as a form of copyright protection in olden days.) He reshot these back onto motion picture film the same way you would shoot animation cels. In other scenes, he animated single stills by moving the camera or adding movment like clouds over one shot of the city. As I think was mentioned in another thread, he recreated the tombstone of Hel, (from another still) and shot a new scene. The epitaph is in English, I presume it's German in the original lost footage.
Lucas talks about on one of the SE DVD's how he couldn't do Coruscant in the OT days. I immediately thought of Metropolis and chuckled. Even the 1930's Buck Rogers has a large cityscape with constant air traffic.

Post: #209209
Topic: Info Wanted: Has anyone ever preserved "In Search Of.." on DVD?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/209209/action/topic#209209
Time: 13-May-2006 2:56 PM

The 70's were like the golden age of paranormal documentaries. I wish more of them were on DVD. In Search Of would be great in it's original format. The more recent cable showings had new music and titles tacked on and seemed to avoid showing much of Leonard Nimoy in his 1970's wardrobe.

Post: #209004
Topic: The stuff of nightmares...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/209004/action/topic#209004
Time: 12-May-2006 4:32 PM

I told a friend about it while it was going on, and he could reach the sites affected, much to my relief!

Post: #208897
Topic: The stuff of nightmares...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/208897/action/topic#208897
Time: 12-May-2006 2:57 AM

Somebody was screwing around with my ISP today. Several sites were redirecting to somewhere else, in some sort of dopey internet domain sale swindle. With all the recent news and resulting insanity, you can imagine what went through my mind when I saw this!

Post: #208894
Topic: OT.com Main Page Updated
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/208894/action/topic#208894
Time: 12-May-2006 2:48 AM

My very first LD purchase in 1986 suffered disc rot. I've yet to encounter DVD rot. And how can there be loss copying digital files?

Post: #207925
Topic: Giorgio Moroder's Metropolis (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/207925/action/topic#207925
Time: 9-May-2006 3:50 PM

Moroder had purchased the rights to the film, (he allegedly outbid David Bowie!) and scoured the world for bits of lost footage. It's not "unauthorized", just no longer favored by the people who own the film right now.
One look at the massive cityscapes in the film, and you realize George could have done Coruscant before there was CGI.

Post: #207794
Topic: Info: The LID Project: Laserdisc is dead.
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/207794/action/topic#207794
Time: 9-May-2006 3:12 AM

Widescreen sets first appeared in the early 90's. A few anamorphic LD's were sold with them. None were sold by themselves, AFAIK. Most titles came out in Japan only and are called "squeeze" Laserdiscs. Some European players could send a signal to a properly equipped widescreen set to unsquish it's picture. As Pioneer used similar parts across it's product lines, you can find a "16:9" LED hidden in the display panels of some U.S. models.
AC3 and DTS Laserdiscs were on the market at least three years before DVD even hit the shelves. It's a pity we never got a version of the Hi-Def stuff over here.

Post: #207712
Topic: Info: The LID Project: Laserdisc is dead.
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/207712/action/topic#207712
Time: 8-May-2006 9:27 PM

Unfortunately, he was griping about his banning in the Yahoo swcutscenes group yesterday.

Post: #207695
Topic: In defense of George Lucas!
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/207695/action/topic#207695
Time: 8-May-2006 8:43 PM

Keep in mind the mono version was insurance that Dolby Stereo wasn't a short lived format. A lot of theaters didn't have it in '77 and it wasn't compatible with playback in a mono equipped theater until later on.

Post: #206960
Topic: Idea: THE FUTURE OF STAR WARS PRESERVATION!
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/206960/action/topic#206960
Time: 6-May-2006 5:05 AM

There's also an SNL where Bill Murray's lounge singer character does lyrics to the Star Wars march with more dignity than Carrie Fisher did.

Post: #206959
Topic: FS: Han Shot First T-shirts
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/206959/action/topic#206959
Time: 6-May-2006 5:00 AM

Why did they go with the most unflattering cartoon depiction of Han Solo since 1978? At least if he was shooting a cartoony Greedo it would make some sense...

Post: #206904
Topic: Idea: Revisionist Silent Films...?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/206904/action/topic#206904
Time: 5-May-2006 11:52 PM

IIRC, some silent films were turned into "talkies" either because they were in the can as sound took over, or were being reissued. How was Nosferatu revised?

Post: #206897
Topic: Info: OriginalTrilogy.com to shut down
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/206897/action/topic#206897
Time: 5-May-2006 11:33 PM

Dead or not, the Laserdiscs still have better cover art.

And there's still a bunch non-SW stuff not on DVD that's worth preserving.

Post: #206387
Topic: .: The XØ Project - Laserdisc on Steroids :. (SEE FIRST POST FOR UPDATES) (* unfinished project *)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/206387/action/topic#206387
Time: 4-May-2006 4:26 PM

The actual X0 itself could still be useful for all those movies still not on DVD.

Post: #206367
Topic: Info Wanted: Old SNL shows - has any done a preservation of them?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/206367/action/topic#206367
Time: 4-May-2006 3:20 PM

In some areas, NBC runs "classic" episodes in their original length around 2 or 3 in the morning on weekends. Some stations air crappy infommercials instead! This site is a good source of info on upcoming repeats. NBC has been in a rut of airing 90's shows lately though.

Post: #205997
Topic: .: The XØ Project - Laserdisc on Steroids :. (SEE FIRST POST FOR UPDATES) (* unfinished project *)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/205997/action/topic#205997
Time: 3-May-2006 11:47 PM

Until we see what we're getting, it would be silly to throw out everything that has been done. There's no mention of the mono mix in the official announcement for example...
Funny thing is, that darn lightsaber does look greenish on super-8.

Post: #205946
Topic: Any truth to this? Lucas is releasing the three unaltered ORIGINAL Star Wars films?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/205946/action/topic#205946
Time: 3-May-2006 10:37 PM

Pinch me! I'm either dreaming, or in the Matrix!