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#186545
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The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Director's Cut (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/186545/action/topic#186545
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I actually have the original version of one of these lines, and CHOSE to use the Dorsey rendition. I wanted to use the Calvert sound mix for the entire scene.


Were you going to record the lines yourself? Heh, interesting. I'm a voice actor myself. I could probably do a passable One Eye if I was forced at gunpoint. Zigzag is more up my alley, but I could never do an exact Vincent Price.
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#186431
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The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Director's Cut (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/186431/action/topic#186431
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I am burning DVDs of this "rough cut version" right now. This is NOT the final version. I'll send them out to those who helped on the project, for critique. You can get in on this action by contacting me.

It contains the Recobbled trailer (anamorphic) and the Arabian Knight trailer (4x3 nonanamorphic 16X9 widescreen, as it is on the Japanese DVD - I'll do an anamorphic one for the final).
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#186404
Topic
The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Director's Cut (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/186404/action/topic#186404
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"Originally, all of the credits were going to be at the start of the movie over black, and then we fade into to hands around the crystal ball. The end was going to end as soon as the thief took the film from the projector."

"We went to see the trailer as a crew when it was shown with Highlander 2. We all left after the trailer as H2 was awful."

"[The Mullah Nasrudin] book was always in the studio."
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#186236
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***//BUILDING EMPIRE\\: PAL & NTSC DVD - NEW EDITION NOW ONLINE! ***
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/186236/action/topic#186236
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A quick review ...




Every Star Wars fan owes it to himself to see Jambe Davdar's Building Empire. It's superbly done, impeccably well researched and scholarly, and will teach even the most die hard fan of the film things about Empire that they would never have known otherwise.

Davdar has called this an "Audio/Visual Commentary" for the film, which describes it quite well. It's an edit in the vein of Deleted Magic (and a fine successor to it), in that you're watching the actual film as commentary, making of footage, and reams of information are thrown at you in a highly entertaining and enlightening manner. Davdar does not cut out any scenes from the film - he manages to have something to say about each and every single scene, which is fairly remarkable in and of itself.

The quality of the video is very good. It's mostly taken from the 2004 PAL DVDs and hasn't lost its quality as Davdar superimposes information over it. The film is indeed sped up, as many PAL DVDs are, but this is not that distracting in this edit and many won't even notice it. The film is presented in anamorphic widescreen, which results in many pan & scan "making of" shots being shrunk and cropped at the top and bottom, and cropped further as subtitles are placed over the bottom of the screen, but this is done tastefully and you never feel like you're missing much important information in the image.

What sets this film apart, and above and beyond any fan production I've seen including my own, is the quality of the research. Davdar just happens to know a lot about the film The Empire Strikes Back, and shares it all in this edit. Of particular interest are the crackly, poor quality sound excerpts from the rarely-seen Super 8mm version of the film, which contain alternate takes of many lines.

I saw Davdar's first edit, which was just as scholarly but a little bit sloppier, and felt that it was an excellent piece that needed a little bit of work. It's gotten that little bit of work - quite a few scenes have been improved, and the film has become the great documentary it was meant to me all along.

This is the ultimate supplemental disc for the Empire Strikes Back. Fire up your PAL-compatible DVD player and show it to all your friends. The film, as a side bonus, stands well alongside the Star Wars disc Deleted Magic, and I'm embarrassed and glad to say that on a technical level it's far superior to my own effort. It deserves to be a part of every fan's collection, displayed just as proudly as your preferred classic edition of the film itself.

Looking forward to Returning to Jedi ...


Oh, points too to Mark "Sluggo" Johnson, for his very eccentric-looking alternate crawl. Guy seems to have a hand in everything ...



And Jambe ... this won't surprise you, but I've still got a few notes for you. =)



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#186088
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HI-Res Poster Art
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/186088/action/topic#186088
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That pic you posted will only appear on that puzzle box, I think.


I DID scan this one though ...

http://img426.imageshack.us/img426/2903/anhjapan31ns.jpg

(I scanned it for the droids really, which are so much better than the crap Style A droids, which weren't even painted by Tom Jung - typical for the early posters, the droids were added in by lesser artists. Would make an interesting combined poster with the style A.)


Which brings us back on topic.

A little while back I posted some big scans from a certain book, of some of the common Star Wars posters and a few more obscure ones.

http://orangecow.org/starwars/SWposterbook/

Hey somebody, do some covers with these scans! I DARE YA!
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#186085
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Star Wars DVD Covers
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/186085/action/topic#186085
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Wow, flame war.


Coov is of course respected here because he does great work consistently, and he's done a lot of it. He's been prolific, and everything he's done has been well thought out and original. I particularly like his use of textures, which has forced a lot of us to rethink the way we're doing our covers! I've learned a lot from studying his concepts. The few covers I've done have been Coov ripoffs. =) There is a hell of a lot of great work being done in this thread, a hell of a lot of great covers, and I always like seeing what everyone is coming up with.

What I hate is people who respond badly to positivity. You're annoyed because people are complimenting someone? I mean, it's not as if every post here is people insulting each other and then Coov gets all the respect - no, there's a lot of complimenting going on here for everyone, and all of it is deserved.

It's a positive atmosphere. Deal with that.


Speaking of positive, I like your work Pepsi, minus the attitude. All your disc art is really good, but your choice on Deleted Magic - I know I have a personal stake in this disc, but it's the same as your ANH disc! Deleted Magic needs to be different - either minimalist, or having deleted scenes images on it. Check out my own official cover for example.

http://orangecow.org/starwars/swcovers-ocp/deletedmagicnew.jpg

(Orange Cow covers links)
http://orangecow.org/starwars/swcovers-ocp
http://orangecow.org/starwars/swcovers-nonocp



Okay anyway, a little while back I posted some big scans from a certain book, of some of the common Star Wars posters and a few more obscure ones.

http://orangecow.org/starwars/SWposterbook/

Hey somebody, do some covers with these scans! I DARE YA!
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#186073
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STAR WARS: The Torrents thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/186073/action/topic#186073
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LOL. That sounds like grudging acceptance of my edit, kmcherry. Glad I won you over.


>>Because the biggest change, IIRC, is the Lapti Nek scene in Jabba's palace, there is a menu option to skip it entirely!


Weeellll, Lapti Nek is restored. You ARE watching the old versions when you watch the Classic Editions, any changes that slipped through are of the incredibly minor variety. There is one shot in ANH which I'm kicking myself about. =)

In this ONE case, I decided to leave in some extra footage of Oola shot in 1997, as kind of a tribute to Femi Taylor. (Jedi is poorly directed anyway and I think the scene works better with it.) The menu option is to skip that, because it wasn't in the 1983 version of course.


The interesting thing about the Classic Editions is that they combine audio from several different versions of the film to create an "ideal" sound mix which hasn't been heard before. Which I think is fun. And there's a commentary on Star Wars.
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#186069
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Classic Edition: Return of the Jedi by Ocpmovie (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/186069/action/topic#186069
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The 2004 commentaries suck.


There is a commentary for Star Wars which I created myself which is very good.


For the others, I didn't bother.



The best "commentary" you're ever gonna get for Empire is Jamie Benning's lovely scholarly disc Building Empire, which was at one point called Empire "Audio/Video Commentary." His documentary has some commentary and teaches you a lot. Who needs a traditional commentary .... if you want the 2004 commentaries, watch them on the 2004 discs I guess ...
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#186049
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Info Wanted: What is the best Episode 4 Edit to incorporate deleted footage?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/186049/action/topic#186049
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Yeah, I know what you meant. I know you like the DM, and you were helpful, and all that ... it's just .... still annoying.



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I guess it's not anger at you specifically. I just feel burned sometimes. There have been polls here which essentially said, what is the best fan edit out there, besides Garrett's. What is the best original trilogy DVD out there, besides Garrett's. I didn't wind up being included in the fan edit contest, it just gets annoying sometimes and this felt like more of the same.

Most or all of these were done by accident rather than intent. No one meant any harm, but they kind of piled up recently and made me feel like part of the club of NoHomers. Which is my fault for being easily offended I guess. Anyway.


I know you meant no harm by it so I'm gonna stop being a dick and be helpful here.


Alien 3 is one thing - that footage was at least VHS quality, and I think it was significantly better than that. The Biggs scenes are .... they're web quality, circa 1999. It's not at a normal frame rate (or indeed any constant frame rate), the compression is ridiculous, etc.


But if you wanted to see them integrated in the film, that would be possible of course. I don't think anyone has done it properly, certainly not done it well, but it would be possible ...

Deleted Magic puts them in the right place in the film with wipes etc, but you couldn't use them straight from Deleted Magic, since it isn't anamorphic widescreen. Still, that would be a very good guide. You'd want to take my Jabba scene from Return of the Ewok, even if it isn't anamorphic ... the work I had to do on Jabba was insanely complex ...

They could be cut into the 2004 DVD. No one has done this.


Anyone who wants to try, it would be an interesting project. You can take some other deleted scenes/ideas from Deleted Magic, there's a lot to choose from.

Eh.