The Aluminum Falcon

Wow so I guess there are three theatrical Star Wars bootlegs (pan and scan, Moth3r, Catnap)! The Catnap looks distinctly different than Moth3r's. I was wondering if it was known for sure which run of Star Wars these bootlegs came from. I know Star Wars had more theatrical runs in 1978 and 1979. Are we sure that these come from the original '77 run? I'm just curious. I know that there were no changes between the pre-81 runs but I think that a bootleg made during the original '77 run would qualify most as a theatrical performance preservation. These are just my thoughts. Also, the Moth3r bootleg and the Catnap bootleg both have the 35mm soundtrack albeit folded to mono, right?

Exciting! :) Can't wait to see it!

LexX said:

The Aluminum Falcon said:

Fritz, I know that earlier you said that it seemed like the ESB bootleg was a transfer from a 35mm print. How do you know of this and are you sure that it's not a 70mm one? Did you check if it has any of the differences listed in this thread?

He did.

Oh sorry about that I didn't know.

On second thought... this is my favorite trooper:

Fritz, I know that earlier you said that it seemed like the ESB bootleg was a transfer from a 35mm print. How do you know of this and are you sure that it's not a 70mm one? Did you check if it has any of the differences listed in this thread? Sorry I'm just curious. Oh and I echo Sluggo's sentiments: thanks so much for sharing your collection with us.

My favorite is the stormtrooper who says "Just another drill" while Obi-Wan is deactivating the tractor beam. He just seemed like he didn't really do much of anything but stand there and chat.

Wow an MKV would be a great source! I'm glad to hear that you're using an HD base for the edit.

I just read this Amazon review and the guy, who saw it in theaters, talks about a red tint at the arcade, a blue tint in the Laser Room, and a green tint in Dillinger's office. Are you going to add that back? Also, what source are you using for this edit? Are you going to use the original DVD, the 20th anniversary DVD with better picture and audio quality, or a capture of the HD broadcast of Tron (probably the best quality)? Anyway, I'm eager to Tron being upgraded. Oh and recently, rumors have come up of a newly remastered and color corrected version of the movie for release sometime this year. It supposedly is enhanced greatly but not with any CGI.

I can't wait for this release, as well as Dark Jedi's GOUT.

Despite the low fidelity, I'm still really excited to hear the mono mix. Actually, I heard that in theaters, the audio track was very over-modulated so screaming fans could hear still. I bet that the first VHS just tried to normalize this over-modulated version and got low fidelity. This article (by me :) lol) is pretty informative in terms of the history of A Hard Day's Night's audio track. However, what my article does not mention is that there was a second restoration after the MPI one by AMC that was vastly superior. It showed in AMC festivals at times and contained a restored original mono sound track that apparently sounded magnificent and better than the original theatrical release. In fact, I believe Reverend Beastly's trading site Brual DVD has a copy for trade though I haven't been able to acquire it. This probably would be the best choice if you wanted the best sounding mono track. Anways, when this is complete, please PM me. I'm really looking forward to this.

Oh and to Skyjedi, thanks for the information, but has there been any release with all the Criterion's special features. If there is does anyone have a copy?

Wow! Glad you're releasing an HD version eventually, Adywan.

Yay! Thanks ericmongoose. Not to be greedy but is there any chance that this will make it to the torrent sites or rapidshare, etc.

FanFiltration said:

The Aluminum Falcon said:

FanFiltration said:

I have my own plans to do a few Criterion preservations of disks I have.

 

"The James Bond Films" (Dr. No, From Russia With Love, Goldfinger) Upgrade

"Lawrence of Arabia" (Preservation of the 4 disc set with all extras) 

"Akira" (With the original English audio)

"A Hard Day's Night" (This will also include the very rare complete unaltered original mono mix from the first MPI release)

Sorry to bump but how are these preservations going? I'm especially interested in the "A Hard Day's Night" Criterion Preservation.

EDIT: Oh and has a preservation of the Blade Runner Criterion Laserdisc ever been made and released? If someone can help me get a copy of a Blade Runner preservation, can you pls. PM me?

Yes, These are going to be done.

The "A Hard Day's Night" preservation is all done, and only needs menus and a few of the extras to be finished off.  I've also included the extra rare original theatrical mono mix (only ever available on the first issue of the MPI VHS back in the 1980's) in PCM format. The mono/stereo upgrade mix used on all other MPI and Criterion releases is also included in PCM sourced from the Criterion 2 disk laser set.  

I've found another "Lawrence of Arabia" disk set with AC-3 audio. I was going to add that to my Criterion preservation.

Wow! Tell me when A Hard Day's Night is completely done, FanFiltration. I'm a big Beatles fan and would be very interested in getting a copy of the final project. I'm so eager to listen to the mono mix.

EDIT: Thanks SkyJedi, but I was really curious if anyone had made an actual transfer of the Criterion laserdisc to DVD even though I already own the European Cut DVD.

This project looks interesting! Can anyone please PM me the megaupload links if possible?

mr_teaspoon, I just sent you a PM for v1 of the Dark Jedi GOUT.

Not to get off topic but I definitely agree with you two that Attack of the Phantom is the best Attack of the Clones edit. The only things I disliked in it were the lack of a real opening crawl and the Yoda fight kept in despite the Phantom Editor's dislike of that scene. A restoration of it would those two changes would be amazing. Is anyone wiling to take on such an undertaking? (I currently cannot because I am working off of an 8-year old computer that doesn't have any good editing capabilities because my real computer crashed.)

Pagz, your ideas sound fantastic! It sounds like one of the most important edits yet. Count me in as very interested in this project. General Grievous and Darth Maul being the same person is a mindblowing idea!

A bit more saturation would be nice and closer to the theatrical. If you can accomplish this, it would be nice. However, if it's too much trouble, don't bother.

FanFiltration said:

I have my own plans to do a few Criterion preservations of disks I have.

 

"The James Bond Films" (Dr. No, From Russia With Love, Goldfinger) Upgrade

"Lawrence of Arabia" (Preservation of the 4 disc set with all extras) 

"Akira" (With the original English audio)

"A Hard Day's Night" (This will also include the very rare complete unaltered original mono mix from the first MPI release)

Sorry to bump but how are these preservations going? I'm especially interested in the "A Hard Day's Night" Criterion Preservation.

EDIT: Oh and has a preservation of the Blade Runner Criterion Laserdisc ever been made and released? If someone can help me get a copy of a Blade Runner preservation, can you pls. PM me?

Sorry to bump but is a preservation/laserdisc transfer going to be made of this interesting find? It would be nice to have a smear-free transfer.

Wow this sounds interesting a Titanic Adywan edit. Count me in as interested if it's uploaded to a torrent site or rapidshare.

Video Collector said:

Ripplin said:

Sorry if I missed it somewhere, but how can one go about getting the discs when they are finished finished?

I'll send discs to a  forum member who'll make them available in the usual manner. When they're available, he or I will note so in this thread.

I just retransferred Empire, with some tweaks to the tracking. That'll set the progress back a day or two, but nothing major.

That sounds good. I can't wait to get them eventually. By the way, I love the covers, especially Empire. The artwork feels so retro, yet so fresh for some reason.

pittrek said:

It's not funny, it's sad :)

That's so true...and sad...

dark_jedi said:

msycamore said:

I gave my latest encode of g-force's latest script a little color boost, I think his earlier ones had it, I don't know why he decided to remove it, as I think it improves the image.

the values on g-force latest script is:

########## black level/gamma, hue
Levels(10,1.08,255,0,255).Tweak(hue=-3)

and this is what I used:

########## black level/gamma, hue
Levels(10,1.08,255,0,255).Tweak(hue=-4,sat=1.3)

a quite subtle approach as I think the GOUT video cannot handle too much saturation before it starts to bleed, try it out, d_j and see if you like it. I will take a look at yours and see how it compares.

Unfortunately, there isn't that much you can do with the internal tweak function, positive values adjust the hue towards red and negative towards green, that's it.

That actually doesn't look to bad either, damn now I am wondering after seeing all this if I should re do the video 1 more time just to bring out some color, maybe if we come up with something that will work I will post in my thread and see what everyone wants, because after all this tweaking, the V3 video the way it is now, is pretty dull.

But that being said, I don't want to tweak just to tweak, like zombie said, we should try to get it as close to theatrical, and not adjust just because "we" think it is right, does that make sense?

Does this mean that you might end up doing a V4?

Can't wait for the samples too!