nobodybutjarjar42

Darth telly said:

Special thanks to Matt Mahdi and Snoopac for making this project possible.

Hello everybody, the goal of this project is to create a definitive release of the star wars holiday special. I have gathered together VHS recordings of different airings of the special, the editdroid DVD, and many interviews with the cast and crew along with other little things released throughout the years to create the definitive release of The Star Wars Holiday special. This release will include the following:

My own version of the Special (expanded on below)
Editdroid DVD
KCCI airing
WCBS airing
WMAR airing
Tasjo’s WHIO edition
Zion V2
Digital Spy Anthony Daniels interview
Screen Rant Plus: Anthony Daniels on the lego star wars holiday special
beatrice arthur emmytvlegends.org interview
Bruce VIlanch emmytvlegends.org interview
Harvey Koreman emmytvlegends.org interview
Harrison Ford On Late Night with Conan O’Brien
Harrison Ford on the star wars holiday special and cowboys and aliens
Boba Fett screentest
Star Wars Holiday Special Boba Fett Animator JOHN CELESTRI Interview
Mark Hamill - Memories of Carrie Fisher, The Holiday Special, and a Broken Promise
JJ abrams on the canonicity of the star wars holiday special
Skywalking through wonderland Steve Binder Interview
Fox News coverage
Cartoon anamatic
South Park: Uncle Hanks Christmas Classics
TV land segment on the special
Robot Chicken commmercials
Holiday Special/Flying High Promo
Holiday Special/Flying High Promo 2
Clips from the Flying High November 17, 1978 episode
Clips from Lucy Comes to Nashville
Hot City: the almost complete series (missing 2 episodes)
The interviews from the editdroid DVD
Honest Trailer
Ryan George Pitch Meeting
From the Desk of Charles Lippincott article
Vanity Fair Han Solo Comedy Hour article
Starlog #19
A Photo Gallery
All the interviews from www.starwarsholidayspecial.com
All the graphics from Holonet 59
Chef Gamora article in Holonet 59
The transcript
The original story treatment
The fourth Draft of the script
The production notes
Proto-Fett the Birth of Boba www.starwars.com article, along with all the graphics from the article.
The Depths of Kashyk
A Forest Apart

What I Need

1. Censored audio track for South Park: Uncle Hanks Christmas classics from south park season 3 DVD.
2. KMGH airing
3. KNXT airing
4. WBNS airing
5. ATV airing
6. Network10 airing
7. Full Sweden airing
8. Good quality french airing with commercials
9. Scan of filmfax magazine 69/70
10. anything else you are able to contribute
    (for all airings a recording including commercials is preferable)

stuff I would like but I am not certain of their existence

1. KCMO airing with commercials
2. KCCI airing with commercials

Other things I need

1. someone to create some nice blu-ray menus when I am done with everything else
2. People who can subtitle the special in different languages
3. someone who can create optional Wookie subtitles

Currently, I think this release will be on two Blu-ray50s, but this might change later on.

My version of the special will aim to improve on Zion, Editdroid, and Tasjos’s work. Here is a outline of its goals.

1. replace shots tooken from star wars with 4K77 footage
2. Include the fighting the frizzies segment and any other promos/bumpers from different TV channels
3. Have the option to watch with or without commercials
4. Have synced french, Spanish, and Rifftrax audio tracks
5. Have optional Wookie subtitles
6. Compile an audio commentary from different Interviews (only a possibility)

The main source I will use for my version of the special will be The Editdroid DVD. Then I will use 4K77 for the sections taken from A New Hope, and the official Blu-ray for the Vader widens the search scene. I will color correct the Editdroid using 4K77 as a reference up against the scenes taken from a New hope on the editdroid DVD. Then I will be using tasjo’s WHIO release for the audio dropouts and missing frames in the editdroid version. I will be sourcing the commercials from the zion hybrid and the WHIO for the opening CBS bumpers.

If you can contribute anything please do.

“Vader widens the search scene” on blu-ray is a different take

PS for youtube downloader use yt-dlp

Bluto said:

I haven’t been on Usenet for ages and hadn’t realised free-usenet.com was down… Thanks for alerting me! It looks like it disappeared in early December according to a forum on Reddit.

While there are plenty of free trials around from the major Usenet providers, a quick online search hasn’t revealed anything that is permanently free (albeit slow) like free-usenet.com was. If anyone knows of a similar Usenet server, please either respond to this thread or let me know by PM and I shall update my guide.

i found https://www.xsusenet.com

Darth telly said:

where were the commercials sourced from on this release?

WMAR dvd

surely the “TB” rip is better quality then the LaserDisc

https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Star-Wars-SDTV-and-HDTV-digital-broadcast-database/id/17744/page/1

That guy with no name said:

can I have a link to ANH?
Thanks in advanced.

why are you asking, you have a acount on forums.thestarwarstrilogy.com
https://forums.thestarwarstrilogy.com/members/that-guy-with-no-name.21617/

Darth telly said:

I recommend using 4k77 instead of despecialized for the shots which were taken from a new hope.

or D+77

the JSC has the original SFX

That guy with no name said:

alexp120 said:

Harmy’s ‘Despecialized Edition’ of ANH has an 'isolated score’audio track (track 20).

The problem is that, that’s the theatrical version, I need the 2011 blu-ray.

EDITED MISTAKE

also doesnt the 2020 blu-ray releases have the same audio just upmixed with a bit of silent macklunkey

i am guessing the source for this will be the editdroid, is this correct?

what was the source for this version
PS the best quality source without commercials is the editdroid edition

EDIT this is wrong
the Odysee.com uplouds are better then the dvds

https://odysee.com/$/list/1cfc4aabbe66d9c80cadc07adf3641100f8a4a97

That guy with no name said:

nobodybutjarjar42 said:

That guy with no name said:

The main master will be Blu-Ray though.

which blu-ray 2011-2019 or 2020+

2019 master.

i know you mean the 2020 release, the 2019 version was first on disney+ then on dvd/blu-ray/4k in 2020

That guy with no name said:

The main master will be Blu-Ray though.

which blu-ray 2011-2019 or 2020+

i am looking forward to this

i would like more tech specs plz

That guy with no name said:

CloakedDragon97 said:

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

Avysinth doesn’t work on M1.

does vapoursynth work? https://www.vapoursynth.com/

That guy with no name said:

nobodybutjarjar42 said:

why is dark jedi’s 720p upscale used instead of the actual ntsc gout dvds

Its because of two reasons, Number 1, its the only versions I could find at short notice.
number 2, is because it works well as a color reference.

EDIT i apologize for being mean, rude and i am a fool for complaining at something for such a silly reason

why is dark jedi’s 720p upscale used instead of the actual ntsc gout dvds

should probably edit the main post to add that spanish crawl reason instead of “the crawl is in Spanish for some reason”

why is the crawl in spanish?

EDITED INTO MAIN POST

i know that the editdroid is THE best quality source of the holiday special but i wanted to know if someone has THIS copy
https://web.archive.org/web/20181118024240/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yaS4DW7ZDs

some tech specs

TITLE “The Star Wars Holiday Special (1978)”
URL “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yaS4DW7ZDs”

SIZE 690x480
FPS 24?
RUNNING TIME 1:57:43

this is the angry video game nerd original versions collection
the series has had many alterations due to copyright, this is
THE original versions in the best quality

credit to myspleen user retroccn for any files with .avi filename extension

link https://mega.nz/folder/UPoWgbYQ (PM me for password)

sources for other then .avi files are from a rutracker torrent, reuploud of the original wmv download (only for rambo episode) also in the files for youtube uplouds have the source embedded as metadata

PS this does NOT include original versions that are availible officially, feel free to PM me ones that i missed

any update

some of the ESB 70mm audio changes in the video were mono changes