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The Abortionplex.

All 13 minutes and 7 second of Chewbacca screen time in Star Wars:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ut8-t9zm_qg&feature=player_embedded

via: clubjade.net via: binarybonsai.com

This book is a classic:

Longshot Comics : The Long and Unlearned Life of Roland Gethers

Eyestrain Productions : http://www.shanesimmons.com/es/longshot.php

This book is epic in story and execution.  Each frame is rendered in esquisite detail then viewed from very very very far away (so it fits in a .5" x .5" frame).  The story follows from birth to death, the life of Roland Gethers, a Welsh coalminer in the British empire.  Very humorous and with 3,840 panels, we'll it's great.  and there's a second issue!  "The Failed Promise of Bradley Gethers"

He also does movie reviews in Longshot form:

SLICK GIGOLO presents:  'George Lucas Strikes Back' {HD Trailer}

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BMgegut3UM&feature=player_embedded

Not all men are created prequel.

via: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2011/06/george-lucas-strikes-back/

BingoWings wrote: Flaming Carrot for just pennies a day.

Missed that comic, got a taste from the Cerebus cross over.

wHen  braaaain uff:

I gravitate towards independents:  and at this point i'm only remembering b/w titles... odd

'Cursed Pirate Girl' by Jeremy Bastian

Review: http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2009/09/gorillas-riding-dinosaurs-cursed-pirate-girl-1-2/

(view the below image at full resolution: awesome http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/cpg_3omerta.jpg )

Publisher website: http://www.olympianpublishing.com/store/index.php

Paul Pope's THB should be returning in some form, hopefully really soon.  Anything by the guy is great.

'Breathers' by Justin Madson (http://www.justmadbooks.com/)

after being self published in an odd size/format.  the series has been put out ina  collected volume.

If you haven't read anything by Masamune Shirow (Ghost in the Shell) worth a try.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masamune_Shirow

If you want a weird experiential book, anything by Tsutomu Nihei.  Biomega is currently getting an english translation and Blame! is already done.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsutomu_Nihei

'Eden - It's an Endless World' by Hiroki Endo

political theater, the world is plagued by a new crystalline virus.  nations dissolve and reform, new organizations spring up.  Story follows the son of a major player. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eden:_It%27s_an_Endless_World!

'Nightly News' by Jonathan Hickman

A cassette tape (the Voice) is telling people to kill news reporters.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nightly_News

Then there's more humorous stuff, josei manga, korean manwha.  lots to chose from.

Comics are finally getting digital releases too, so when you find a title you like see if the author is directly selling it.

Came to the same general conclusion:

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Save-the-Lars-Homestead/topic/11803/

Although I appreciate the idea, it seems that this trip will only save it for a certain period of time.  Wonder if it's better to set up a fund to support someone who lives there to maintain the place or build an enclosure.  The environment's just too rough for this type of dwelling to persist for any lengthy duration.

Katie Lucas is not just the child of the owner of the franchise, she's also an employee who writes scripts for the shows.  You don't hear anything about SW from the other two children. 

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2011/05/summer-reading-2011/?pid=3738&viewall=true

The True Adventures of the World's Greatest Stuntman

Author: Vic Armstrong

Big idea: Stunt double for Tom Cruise, Harrison Ford and Arnold Schwarzenegger remembers the action and accidents over the course of three James Bond movies, Mission: Impossible 3 and dozens of other films.

Publisher: Titan Books (May)

The Star Wars Trilogy - All TV Spots

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUDNwDZLilY

This was posted a few months ago, seems to be a great collection of TV spots.  Do any of them look new to you? 

(prequel stuff as well in this user's uploads, fantastic resource.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9ynzTw8XMU

AMC on Film Restoration 1993

This piece gives you a peak into what was about to happen to SW.  Early digital film preservation/frame change.   Details on how the digital audio was modified by taking a small audio clip from a fraction of a second before or after.  Also about the visuals, where they take again a piece of the frame from one frame before or after to cover imperfections. 

After watching this, finding myself more and more interested in seeing the original digital film capture.  This report gives a good sense of how much work goes into this digital replacement.  Can't call it clean up anymore in my eyes.

Rwwwawrr.

Similar to the apple.com Lowry article, but from the starwars.com

(dead) http://www.starwars.com/episode-iv/release/video/f20040916/index.html

http://web.archive.org/web/20041025183501/http://www.starwars.com/episode-iv/release/video/f20040916/index.html

(some pics in the wayback machine archive)

John Lowry: Restoring Films to the Galaxy

September 16, 2004

 

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On September 21, when Star Wars fans insert A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi on DVD for the first time, they are going to see picture quality no Star Wars audience has ever seen... including those at the first screening of the first day back in May 1977.

The growing popularity of films from all eras on DVD format has helped to illuminate a growing problem with some of the movie industry's greatest treasures -- they exist only on physical film stock, and that film stock is fragile and deteriorating rapidly.

When Lucasfilm began to prepare the trilogy for a digital release, they called upon John Lowry and Lowry Digital Images to step in to save the day. In the past four years, Lowry Digital has been hired to use their patented custom software processes to digitally clean and restore hundreds of films, including high-profile efforts on Snow White, Citizen Kane and last year's acclaimed http://www.indianajones.com/">Indiana Jones Trilogy DVD set.

At the Lowry Digital Images facility, over 600 Macintosh dual-processor G5 computers utilizing over 2400 gigabytes of RAM and 478 terabytes (over 478 million megabytes) of hard drive space processed each of the classic Star Wars films for over 30 break-neck days to create the stunning new versions fans will see in the Star Wars Trilogy DVD set.

"There are three key contributing factors to the degradation of film," Lowry explains. "Dirt, time and chemical damage due to conventional restoration processes."

When creating a duplicate of a scratched original, a wet-gate printer is commonly used. The master copy passes through a special fluid which temporarily fills any scratches or holes in the original. According to Lowry, this process is physically harsh and actually adds more grain and softens the images. Proper storage of the fragile film is also an industry issue. "Storage problems in the past have led to flicker, color damage and color flicker," says Lowry.

But the greatest challenge on the Star Wars trilogy was dirt damage. The more a film is used, the more dirt it accumulates. The unexpected success of A New Hope took a particular toll because each copy of the film ended up being played far more often than is usual, to the point where even Fox Studio's master originals began to wear out keeping up with demand.

"We have never seen anything quite this bad from a dirt perspective," says Lowry. "At some point the dirt becomes part of the picture and very, very hard to get rid of."

Over the years, Lowry Digital's computer algorithms have evolved from automating the removal of hundreds of pieces of dirt in a scene, to handling the 100,000 pieces of dirt in the http://www.indianajones.com/" target="_blank">Indiana Jones trilogy, to taking on the Star Wars trilogy which required automated and manual removal of up to a million pieces of dirt in scenes like http://www.starwars.com/databank/droid/r2d2/">R2-D2 and http://www.starwars.com/databank/droid/c3po/">C-3PO's arrival on http://www.starwars.com/databank/location/tatooine/">Tatooine in A New Hope.

The Star Wars restoration process began with a 10-bit RGB high-definition scan of the original negatives. This data was then used by a team at Lucasfilm and http://www.starwars.com/bio/industriallightmagic.html">Industrial Light & Magic to work with http://www.starwars.com/bio/georgelucas.html">George Lucas to do some significant color correction to the movies. This color-timed data was then transferred to Lowry Digital hard drives, to begin the massive clean-up effort.

Most effects in the original trilogy were achieved, at least in part, with the aid of optical printing -- a process in which one piece of film is passed through a printer multiple times, once for each effects element. With each optical effect layer, grain can be introduced and some of the original clarity reduced. "Every time there was a http://www.starwars.com/databank/technology/lightsaber/">lightsaber in frame, it was exceedingly grainy due to opticals," Lowry recalls.

"Sometimes the scratches were very bad," says Lowry, "at one point in Return of the Jedi there was a literally blue rain of scratches on two or three thousand frames. We were able to clean that up. Computers are pretty powerful, and when you've got six hundred of them, you can do some pretty amazing stuff."

"With digital restoration, you can make the image nearly as good as the director and cinemaphotographer were seeing when they shot the movie. If you get it back to that level, to what they were seeing in dailies, then I think we've won," adds Lowry.

"Star Wars was a very gratifying process because it turned out rather well."

Some of the links from the Lowry wiki, could have sentences about the SE:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowry_Digital

http://www.studiodaily.com/filmandvideo/tools/otherways/4755.html (has SW comparison pic)

If you want links for an online blog or article:

the Howie long '97 segment on the SE restoration:
Part 1 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhLUdy3RDpM
Part 2 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4D6L34BkNs&feature=related

Full 'The Magic and the Mystery' program:
Part 1 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWzf0IESrcU
Part 2 :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZognKjrI3Bs&feature=channel_video_title
Part 3 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryJH1AsYGGI
Part 4 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEahjw3KY2s
Part 5 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af78PgQq4UM

MTV SW 97 special:
Part 1 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns_p4zoF1eI&feature=related
Part 2 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5-wvxYncJM
Part 3 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocGxFGnbc5M&feature=related

SE ESB/RotJ press kit
Part 1 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cORIbTF0QNc&playnext=1&list=PL1D0A9F55234DA668
Part 2 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cORIbTF0QNc&playnext=1&list=PL1D0A9F55234DA668

SE featurette laserdisc
Part 1 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_ijzd828cU
Part 2 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_sCbzSwnbk&feature=related
(this user has ESB and RotJ SE Trailers)

MSNBC's Time & Again from 97
Part 1 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFecBVL40I0&feature=related
Part 2 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4tz9a13Afk&feature=related

TNN: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qu7jr2jffGU

Rick McCallum talks origins of SE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrFmluooZNY  (tbone's got other stuff in his uploads)

ILM talks SE Effects : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7SOr3SXUms&NR=1

French ILM SE era news report visit (shows ILM's front door and little of their offices)  nothing too SE important.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV8uR9O1F2I

Hitler has some thoughts on the Star Wars blu-ray:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW4W_95raHk

Han Shot First: A Petition to George Lucas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiqfffyifI4

(because this is partly humorous, doesn't have any weight, but shows some people are trying in their own way)

SW according to a three-year-old.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBM854BTGL0

Kinda similar: http://vimeo.com/2809991

Star Wars retold by someone who hasn't seen them.

You might appreciate this blog post on origins of Chewie.

http://binarybonsai.com/2010/09/18/george-lucas-stole-chewbacca-but-its-okay/

DarthChewie wrote: I wonder how george feels about this?

Why would he be interested in one of his old signatures?  What about all his homework assignments as a kid.

Steven Spielberg - NBC Today Show 1984 Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pv5TQS1Qgmc

Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2WhM0rDYOc&feature=related

little about Raider some about what's coming next.

Spielberg on 20/20 from 1982: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLu1dmZhqHc&feature=related

Spielberg explains the Sword scene: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAgqXsbbFyA

George and the idea for Raiders (AFI): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KR_xwX9ZR-s&feature=related

Spielberg Boston Pops intro: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRee035ckkQ

Williams probably from the same event: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdDlPw7v3bE&feature=related

Spielberg BBC's Film Comment 84: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ET8qZRDA2xo  (Wow 33minutes!, the beginning might have some behind the scenes stuff)

This show leads to this user's (kamenliter) library which has more Spielberg, a Lucas interview i've never seen, some Kate Capshaw, a Ford interview:

http://www.youtube.com/user/kamenliter#g/u

These maybe a little too tangential:

The History Channel had a program called "Indiana Jones and the Ultimate Quest" when the last movie came out.  More of a doc where archeologist and historians talk about the memes in the films as they relate to real world archeology.

IMDB listing: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1236395/

Online version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUsmI0NLkS4

When looking for this program came across this wiki, which could yield more things:  http://indianajones.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

Also have come across Ford interviews on youtube. 

Letterman 1982: (brief mention)

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QcyX9JWMMo

Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oRJzi6Mwuw&feature=related

(best part is the end.  Whooooooosh!)

Karen Allen talks about Raiders: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7a7kfqqwi4

CNN Interview Mark Mangini, Richard Anderson, and Stephen Hunter on Sound fx of Raiders: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-A2imGs7Ls  (Great behind the scenes shots and interview with production crew)  Actually uploaded by Mark Mangini, 2 weeks ago - so check through his library send him an e-mail!

Another Mark Mangini interview from early 80s: http://www.youtube.com/user/markmangini#p/u/4/fwtwM0mv-QQ

Gene Shalit interviews John Williams and he talks about Spielberg and Raiders: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlwqlHkF870