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Woah! That’s a great compilation!
Thanks for all the links, I’ll be sure to check them.

crissrudd4554 said:

chyron8472 said:

Wazzles said:

chyron8472 said:

The film Star Wars wasn’t marketed as “Episode IV: A New Hope” until around the time the prequels were released. So they definitely would not be OOT.

The last OOT VHS release was probably the Faces set.

The Faces tapes say A New Hope on them, but the Laserdiscs don’t for some reason.

…*checking for verification.

Okay, on the spine yes. But only on the spine.

The cassette label also had the ‘A New Hope’ subtitle.

Comparing the theatrical posters and the DVDs on my shelf… I guess I need to make some custom covers.
Also, the 1995 LaserDisc does say A New Hope, but on the back:
[http://www.swonvideo.com/laserdisc/imageslarge/ldstarwarsthxback.jpg]
(The 1993 release does not)

darth_ender said:

geek-o-rama said:

LordStarkiller said:

• Star Wars: The Legacy Revealed - This one goes more into the mythos and epics that influenced Star Wars and is a sequel documentary to Empire Of Dreams. Sadly it’s never gotten a proper release though screeners do exist.

This looks fantastic. Over two hours and produced in 2007.
Would you happen to be able to PM me where to find it?

It’s on YouTube!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZt5HRPLExQ

Thanks!

LordStarkiller said:

• Star Wars: The Legacy Revealed - This one goes more into the mythos and epics that influenced Star Wars and is a sequel documentary to Empire Of Dreams. Sadly it’s never gotten a proper release though screeners do exist.

This looks fantastic. Over two hours and produced in 2007.
Would you happen to be able to PM me where to find it?

SilverWook said:

A look at those Star Wars VideoNow discs.
https://youtu.be/20nRK7fagKM

Woah! I was expecting it to be bad, but those discs are even worse than I thought.
Thanks a million for the link, it was very informative.

DominicCobb said:

If I remember correctly, the R2 mockumentary is on the episode II bonus disc.

I have a DVD with that “The Story of Star Wars” thing, but it’s only the summarized plots which pretty much aren’t worth watching, I didn’t even know there was a doc that goes with it?

There’s also the Musical Journey disc that came with the ROTS soundtrack, it’s not really a documentary, but it’s music videos for the whole saga with introductions by Ian McDiarmid.

The “Story of Star Wars” DVD was a compilation of the first 2 discs from the Hasbro toy. The third disc wasn’t included at all, but I was wondering if the videos were exclusive or if they were featured on the movies’ releases on DVD.

And Musical Journey seems interesting, I’ll have to look into that too, thanks.

I’m quite fond of things like making of’s, deleted scenes and documentaries regarding films.
In the specific case of Star Wars, I’d say I got quite late in the subject.

So, I’ve been trying to track down the most famous contents out there and I was wondering if someone could help me identifying what I’m missing. I’ll be using the Blu-rays are a start point, so I’ll only list things I know that aren’t available on them.

On a side note, I think this will be a nice guide for those interested in finding bonus features not available on that BD Box and where to find the videos.

Here’s a list of what I’ve acquired so far:

• The Star Wars Complete Saga Blu-ray Box digibook with the 3 bonus discs (Fox release, 2011), which I assume most of you are familiar with (http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Star-Wars-The-Complete-Saga-Blu-ray/14903/#Review)
• The Star Wars Trilogy (Special Edition, 2004), which comes in a silver box, 4 DVDs. “Empire of Dreams” (151min, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0416716/), “The Characters of Star Wars” (19min, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427053/), “The Force is With Them” (13min, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427263/)
• Star Wars Episode I, the release with a bonus DVD (2001). “The Beginning: Making Episode I” (66min, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0354408/).
• Jedi Junkies (75min http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1662514/): not exactly a Star Wars documentary, but it’s a Star Wars’ documentary about its fans.

What I know I’m missing:

• Empire of Dreams: There’s a version that runs about 161min, with Lucas talking about the The Star Wars Holiday Special. I’d like to watch that 10-minute segment that was cut off.
• R2-D2: Beneath the Dome (20min, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0299485/): mockumentary, never heard of that before typing this post.
• Star Wars: Connections/The Story of Star Wars (2004, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_Star_Wars): these are a bit weird, to sum up, there was a Hasbro toy that could play proprietary video discs and there were 3 Star Wars related discs made. The first two were simply abridged versions of the movies, as told by C3PO, but the 3rd disc had behind the scenes contents. Does anyone know if those featurettes were the same as the ones on the DVDs?
• Don Bies Archive Tour (from the 1993 LD Release): it’s a behind the scenes with Don Bies, one of the special effects artists. Was it ever available anywhere else? Or does anyone have a proper capture of this video?
• Return of the Ewok (25min): another mockumentary, but it was never released. However, there’s a reconstruction of it on DVD by two fans, the thing is I couldn’t find it. Any help?
• Star Wars Episode II - “From Puppets to Pixels” (52min, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0425043/), Web documentary, "State of the Art: The Pre-Visualization of ‘Episode II’ (22min, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0425481/), “Films Are Not Released, They Escape” (26min, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0367733/)
• Star Wars Episode III - “Within a Minute” (78min, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0491707/), Web documentary, “It’s All for Real: The Stunts of Episode III” (11min, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0499221)
• From Star Wars to Jedi: The Making of a Saga (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6Xa6CcShAI&list=PL148kCvXk8pDL72_FbsLq7KXD5eJUz7hC)- while I know this is freely available on Star Wars’ YouTube channel, the picture quality is really bad. Judging from the screenshots on the Japanese LD, it seems to me that the YouTube video was sourced from a VHS. Does anyone have a rip from either the Betamax or the LaserDisc?

And I couldn’t find info about the “Digital Releases”. They come with some bonus material, but are they in HD? Or simply 480p from the DVDs?

Now, am I missing anything else? Can anyone help me fill the gaps?

As soon as possible I’ll PM you with the links. I got a *.TS file without that logo.

And it seems like there are 2 distinct PAL releases, then. The one I got is from Portugal and features 8 audio languages. This one is letterboxed.
http://s25.postimg.org/tdpy8au0v/Pateta_OFilme.jpg
According to this cover, there’s a British release with another set of languages:
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81jBoYvHUUL.SL1500.jpg
It says it’s widescreen, so probably that’s the version you got. There’s one thing I’m finding strange: I never knew this movie got a 5.1 mixing. The American release is certainly stereo, as is the PAL version I got.

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If you’re interested, and have some free time, you could rip the LD audio and send me the RAW/WAV/FLAC files and I can mux them in x264 encodes. Or if there are a larger number of people, I could re-author the DVDs, albeit without changes in the menus, so the audio should be selected by remote.

Family Dog
https://imgur.com/BYhPQvF
There are indeed all 10 episodes on those DVDs. And don’t worry, I don’t plan on selling any of my movies.

A Goofy Movie
First, I was wrong, just checked and the PAL DVD is letterboxed, not anamorphic.
I have absolutely no idea how proper slowdown PAL to NTSC. Years ago I tried syncing the PAL DVD to the NTSC audio, spent months on Premiere and VirtualDub trying to figure out a way to make it.
Regarding the screenshots: I can’t rip Netflix, so the screenshot was literally a screenshot of my computer screen. I have no idea why this movie has these uneven black/brown bars on top and under. It doesn’t seem to be aiming to a 1.66:1 AR. And the weird issue on the bottom right, it’s not an artifact from the screenshot, it’s actually there when you’re streaming the video. I don’t have the *.TS from the German broadcast right now, so I took a screenshot from a 720p encode from that broadcast (I’ll get it later). Finally, screenshots from the DVDs were taken with VLC.
https://preview.ibb.co/jBYjww/goofy_dvd_R1.png
https://preview.ibb.co/mZYL3b/goofy_dvd_PAL_01.png
https://ibb.co/hxTL3b HDTV
https://ibb.co/jktHGw netflix

And after some googling, I found out that the Japanese DVD came out in 2004 and there hasn’t been a reprint. If anyone can tell me where I can buy it, please let me know. Or if anyone can send me the files, PM me, please. I’ve been looking for a proper release of this movie for over a decade now.
Wait, scrap that. https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/d256572935#
It shows that the DVD is 4:3, not widescreen.

I guess no one mentioned Wonder Years. I freaking love this show and it took ages to be released on DVD due to the music licensing matter.
Throughout the whole series, only 14 songs have been replaced on DVD (http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Wonder-Years-The-Complete-Series/20182) but we’re still lacking those.
However, if I recall correctly, Netflix had all the episodes with the intact broadcast audio with the exception of the opening credits, as they replaced With a Little Help From My Friends with a cover by an unknown artist.
Of course, the DVDs are much better than those old TV-Rips floating around, but have anyone tried to restore those 13 episodes?

You piqued my curiosity now, as I have never heard about those scenes not available on the theatrical releases. I used to watch those movies as a kid, so I really want to know more about them - as the BDs are lacking any sort of deleted scenes. Can anyone point me to a place discussing what’s been added/removed?

SilverWook said:

The Jetsons Movie and We’re Back have both had a DVD release in widescreen.

Spielberg’s "Family Dog"series has not come out on DVD, although the pilot episode was originally an Amazing Stories installment.

Heavy Metal has long been on DVD and the Blu Ray is terrific. There are some very minor differences in the soundmix, but it’s unlikely a stereo soundtrack recorded off cable prior to the official 1990’s video release exists. The Japanese Laserdisc is open matte.

Beavis and Butthead Do America has also had a nice DVD release.

Cat’s Don’t Dance has only come out on DVD in full frame.

There are a couple other anime or family films I could add to the list soon as I’m done sorting out my LD collection.

On a very weird matter regarding Family Dog, for some reason it was officially released on DVD by Universal in Brazil (NTSC R4), but it lacks original audio. I’ve actually bought the 2 DVDs years ago and I believe to include all episodes produced. I haven’t watched it yet, but if anyone is interested in sourcing the English audio (and other possible dubs), I could dump the discs.

A film I didn’t read people discussing here is A Goofy Movie. As far as I know, there isn’t a proper release of this film on home video. The NTSC R1 and R4 releases are cropped 4:3 and while the western R2 is anamorphic, there’s the 4% PAL speed-up. Netflix has recently released the movie, but it looks far worse than the Disney Cinemagic HD from German SKY TV.
I’m actually quite curious about the LD, is it letterboxed?