CloakedDragon97

It’s been a while. Got any updates?

Ronster said:

On the 97 TV broadcast version when Luke “get’s a little cooked” after he shoots the artillery gunners. There is a thruster sound for the xwing when Luke pulls away over camera which is not heard in any other version.

There is also an omitted shot of R2D2 in the canyon cut from the film. (This shot is prior to R2D2 going down the slope) When I saw this not only did I think the sequence worked better without that shot but then I became quite suspicious about wether it was actually meant for that part.

In the end I concluded that particular canyon shot seeing as it looks nothing like the canyon R2D2 is in at this time and at dusk and this shot was also a different time of day it might be a shot in the search for R2D2 sequence.

It turns out it was a correct guess and it sandwhiches between the landspeeder “look theres a droid dead ahead on the scanner” and the tuskan raiders on the cliff. Due to the amount of music missing (few seconds) and to hit the cue, this particular clip does not run it’s full lenngth (shorter) when inserted to the sequence. Further more the cue is missed when the raider jumps on the bantha. The music edit on the track is also botched as the last drum hit should synchronise simultaneously with the deep cello string upon luke and 3P0 finding R2.

So the 97 broadcast might have been a a sign that they were still fiddling with the film but this particular edit never got sorted out or fixed or ever made a different version. And the thrusters on the xwing have never made it to another version either.

This was a digitized VHS capture of the Broadcast with adverts I found on the Internet Archive.

I tried finding this version over there but couldn’t find it. Can you PM it to me?

I would also like to find this if it’s available.

Any more progress?

Starbond9 said:

oojason said:

If anything, it is the owners of these franchises wanting to re-write history in an attempt to show they weren’t offensive, derogatory, or used racial caricatures and so on, in their past content. A bid to retcon their own history - which they obviously have issue with.

I think you really nailed it here. Companies revise their own histories to appear as if they were against it all along, and people believe it wholeheartedly. Similar to a politician who does one thing his whole career and runs on campaign promises of the opposite thing and votes think “wow he’s totally being honest now, all the stuff he did before wasnt his fault”
Either way, I’d just prefer these companies to say “Here’s how it was originally shown, we know social sensibilities were changed but we will not pretend it never happened” similar to what WB did.

+1

This is my favorite way to watch the 1997 version along with Althor1138’s laserdisc preservation.

Already looking forward to this.

I personally can’t do this but I’ve heard AviSynth and VirtualDub are good at this sort of thing.

It says at the top where you can find it.

I can see that.

AspiringCreator said:

I’d imagine this is probably gonna take a LONG while but I’m very much keeping my eye on this. Hopefully soon much like with TN1’s 4K scans of the original trilogy this means we will soon have all six original Star Wars films preserved in the best possible quality.

There’s already a scan of TPM than TN1 did. You can find it on TheStarWarsTrilogy.com.

I’d also want a link if it’s available.

Got it.

I think it would still be cool if those were 3D also.

The highest quality versions of those episodes are on the official Channel Awesome YouTube channel.

That’s fine by me.

Status Update: This project is in progress again. I don’t have an estimated time of completion though.

I would also like a link to this.

Looking forward to this already.

Any updates?

LHUX said:

Mango said:

This project is on hiatus as I continue to work on several other projects. I’ll start work on it again sometime next year.

take as much time as you need.
bye

+1

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So when do you think the project will be completed?

Crossvader said:

Anyone Have kk650 Regraded Original Trilogy by any chance?

I would also be interested in a link to that version.

Could I also have a link to this?