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Post: #239498
Topic: Hearts Of Darkness - A filmakers Apocalypse (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/239498/action/topic#239498
Time: 29-Aug-2006 4:08 PM

Well, I never bothered to do any artwork for the Hearts of Darkness DVD until I bought the "Complete" Dossier release. So I started by creating an original image (I wasn't interested in seeing the VHS cover on my DVD) using the Apocalypse Now poster that features the river going up the middle with a sun above the horizon and a line of distant helicopters and also using a picture of Coppola with a gun to his head.

I scanned the plain back of the Complete Dossier package in an attempt to create a framing background to compliment the AN:CD release. Unfortunately, the brown is too light right now. In lieu of darkening the color, I've searched for paper that looks like cardboard to print the artwork on. I've had no luck at all. Just today my wife suggested I use a grocery bag. I'm gonna give that a try, and if it doesn't work, then I'll use the scanned background and darken it.

As for the workprint, I was just going to scan the standard AN DVD release and change "Widescreen Collection" at the bottom to read "5-hour Workprint Edition" or something like that.

As for supplemental material, I got the Circuit City bonus disc, which seems to be lacking only the theater program. As an aside...
<rant>Why oh why did they not make Complete Dossier a 3-disc set? Yes, I understand why "Hearts of Darkness" wasn't on there. But if some exclusive bonus disc has to be offered, that means they couldn't fit everything on there that they did have. Correct me if I'm wrong: both previous releases of AN and Redux were on one disc a piece. So repeat that for Complete Dossier, and then fill the third disc with all the extras plus the Circuit City bonus ones that couldn't fit. Jeez. I was prepared to pay $20 for this thing anyway and got it for $13. I would have paid for a third disc!</rant>

Okay, sorry. Anyhow, I created a CD-Extra that presents Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre production of Heart of Darkness in CD-Audio. The CD-ROM content on this disc has the complete 6-Nov-1938 broadcast (they also did "Life With Father" that night) in mp3 format, complete text of Joseph Conrad's novel (which is public domain), a bio on Conrad, info on the Mercury Theatre, and pictures of Conrad, Welles, and various covers of HoD books. I saw that there is a Playhouse 90 presentation of Heart of Darkness starring Roddy McDowell and Boris Karloff, but I have yet to get my hands on this. Also, Welles supposedly had a script for Heart of Darkness and shot some test footage. Does anyone know if either of these exist?

Post: #239130
Topic: Hearts Of Darkness - A filmakers Apocalypse (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/239130/action/topic#239130
Time: 28-Aug-2006 12:09 PM

I have this on DVD. My friend took an original VHS and did the transfer. I designed the menus using music from the CD soundtrack. Everything from the VHS is part of the "package": the advert for the Apocalypse Now VHS is an "extra", the goofy advert for renting films from your local video store is an easter egg. Scans of the VHS box front and back are viewable, and another screen details the transfer process utilized.

I don't torrent, but I'm always willing to entertain a snail mail trade offer. I'm looking for Star Wars related stuff.

Post: #237759
Topic: Apocalypse Now - Workprint (now available) (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/237759/action/topic#237759
Time: 23-Aug-2006 11:14 AM

Originally posted by: crazyrabbits
That's funny, considering that it's his WIFE that edited the documentary.

Not true. Although Eleanor Coppola filmed the on-the-set footage and provided the narration, she had nothing to do with the finished film. Directors Fax Bahr & George Hickenlooper no doubt made the editing decisions (which were executed by Michael Greer & Jay Miracle).

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