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#171896
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Classic Edition: Return of the Jedi by Ocpmovie (Released)
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Yeah, I'm holding off on burning anything until the Ritek discs arrive, tonight or tomorrow. I'll throw the Linkyo ones out.

People who are wondering why I often go broke doing these mailings, this is just one of many many reasons.


Anyway. As I said, I'm returning to more of my own film projects now ...


So for the curious ...

Here's the complete first draft of The Chosen Ones (animated series) hourlong pilot. Juuuust finished it! It's a sci fi comedy. Note the Star Wars references.

http://orangecow.org/1ocp/Chosen%20Ones%20Pilot.rtf
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#171887
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The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Director's Cut (Released)
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A google search turned up a transcript of:

'One Pair of Eyes: Dreamwalkers' presented by Idries Shah, 19th Dec 1970, BBC Television (UK).

The documentary is about Shah rather than the animated film, but there is a short interview with Williams. It's possible that a clip or clips from the original Nasrudin film were included. The transcript may show a segment about bread.

This is very possibly the 1969 BBC doc referred to.

http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:YXTX-HF29bcJ:freehost19.websamba.com/sarmoun/onepair.htm+%22richard+williams%22+nasrudin&hl=en


Picture of the front cover of a book on Mulla Nasrudin. The book is opened to reveal Nasrudin sitting on his donkey, facing the wrong way].

NARRATION: Another traditional means of passing on the fruit of experience is a highly advanced form of story with many levels of understanding. Hundreds of them are about Mulla Nasrudin, a sort of Oriental Everyman. A[n animated] film of him is in the making by Richard Williams. Here, Nasrudin is hauled before the king, accused of heresy:

Courtier: He has admitted going around saying 'Such wise men as these are ignorant, irresolute and confused.'

King: Nasrudin, you may speak first.

Nasrudin: May I ask the learned ones a question?

King: Proceed.

Nasrudin: Oh wise men, what is bread?

Wise man: Bread? Stupid question.

King: Go on.

Wise men, in succession (1): Bread is a substance which is for the purpose of nourishing people. It is in fact a food.

(2): Bread is a compound of flour and water mixed at a certain ratio and subjected to a certain heat.

(3): It is a blessing which descends as manna from the heavens. It is a gift from God, notwithstanding man's iniquity and undeserving state.

(4): Bread is a substance from which man draws nutriment.

(5): Throughout the ages, servants and sages have sought the answer to this question. But still, it has to be admitted that nobody really knows.

Nasrudin: Your Majesty: how can you trust these men. Is it not strange that they cannot agree on the nature of something they eat every day, yet are unanimous that I am a heretic?

NARRATION: Richard Williams has been living with Nasrudin for five years.

WILLIAMS: With me, I just found them brain breakers. I was going around heavily about it, then I kind of just started to like them. I found that they'd pop up like people here and you'd say 'That's like….' 'Oh, good heavens….' And you'd quote the punch-line which relates to a situation [in your own life] and gradually you'd like it more and more. Whereas at first you'd say 'Mulla Nasrudin? Whatever's that?' And then [later] you don't get rid of it - you don't wear it out.

SHAH: That's the extraordinary thing about it [Nasrudin stories] it has durability. It doesn't wear out. Why not? Normally people get fed up with jokes and wisecracks.

WILLIAMS: And everybody says, you know, five years you've been working on this thing. Surely, surely you can't stand it: the same thing every day. I say 'Never!' I get worn out on a one month job - commercial job, or something - but not on Nasrudin.

SHAH: It is very, very strange.

[Shot of cover of The Pleasantries of the Incredible Mulla Nasrudin by Idries Shah].

SHAH [narrating]: The Nasrudin tales which I have published have proved their worth in ways in which few scientists would have imagined. Doctor John Kermish (?) specialised in choosing certain types of inventive brain for the American Rand Corporation. This is the original Think Tank, pioneering new ways of thought to solve industrial, commercial and social problems. He made a text book out of the Nasrudin stories.

KERMISH: The one which pops most readily into mind is the one I remember where Nasrudin is looking outside his house for something. Someone asks what he's looking for and he says his key. They ask if he lost it there and he says no, he lost it inside the house, but there's more light outside, so it's better to look there.

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#171878
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The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Director's Cut (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/171878/action/topic#171878
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The film itself, doucmentaries and other work by Richard Williams, and if anyone wants the other versions of the film I've got those too.



Okay, asking for any info here, from sources wiser than myself.

From:
http://www.geocities.com/eddie_bowers/edsummer.html


1969 (the film is still about the Mullah Nasrudin)
The BBC produced a documentary on the film’s progress. It is now called "The Golden City."


1981
The BBC produces another documentary about the Project, which was sometimes called "Once..."



Hmm.

Anyone know more about the 1969 documentary? Because that would be fascinating beyond belief, if it were to turn up. It shows the movie at a very early stage, before it was actually the movie we know it as. (Williams started again from scratch four years later.)

I'm curious about the Mullah Nasrudin version of the film, because we've never seen anything from that version, which would presumably have been animated in the "B.C./Wizard of Id" like style seen in early Williams work ... some of the Thief animation shows signs of Williams' early style, and seems to come from that version, though it was probably retraced later.

Also, is this 1981 documentary being discussed here something by the BBC we've never seen?

There is a Thames documentary which we've definitely seen, probably from 1981 or so at that. It shows the film at a stage when it's titled "The Thief Who Never Gave Up." According to this timeline, that would have been around 1982. Notably, the Thames doc does not show "Ziggy's Gift," which would have been created that same year.

Is the Thames documentary the same as the BBC documentary, or were there two documentaries done around the same time, with the BBC one appearing earlier?



Any information anyone has ...
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#171859
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***//BUILDING EMPIRE\\: PAL & NTSC DVD - NEW EDITION NOW ONLINE! ***
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/171859/action/topic#171859
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>>A friend of mine has some very cool ESB contacts and so I have been able to garner some lovely snippets of information right from the horses mouth. Even some info on a deleted scene that neither of us have ever heard about before.

Wow. I want to know what you're talking about RIGHT NOW. =D

I can keep an email secret. I can. Hmmmm?

>>I have also gone through and fleshed out some of the Dagobah sequences with more footage of Frank rehursing with Yoda. There is now also more footage of the effects guys at work (hey they deserve it). The split screen sections have gone and have been replaced by something much better.

=) To Obi-Wan you listen!

>>I am also working on collating some DVD extras. I may be able (if I get permission from a contact) to use a couple of very cool behind the scenes programmes as the main extras.

Oooh. I want to know what you're talking about.

>> Along with this I will hopefully including isolated scenes with the restored music so that viewers can appreciate the impact of the music without being distracted by the text and behind the scenes footage as in the 'Building Empire' feature.

Verray good.

As Larry David would say ... prettay, prettay, prettay good ....



My my. Can't wait. You've done a number on this movie, haven't you? You make me look like the slacker I am.
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#171563
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Classic Edition: Return of the Jedi by Ocpmovie (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/171563/action/topic#171563
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More sent out today, with an emphasis on Return of the Ewok.

Some bad news -

I've learned that the cheap Linkyo printable DVD-Rs I used for some of this release may not be compatible with all players. Particularly Panasonic players. I've already received one or two complaints about these discs from the past month or so, and I'm not happy that I used them for much of the Jedi rollout. I've gone and ordered new discs today, from Ritek, which I used on previous releases.

I don't want to just throw 200 Linkyo discs away, but I'm definitely worried about their compatibility. I will use the Ritek ones from now on, and try to mix them with the Linkyo discs only occasionally.

If one of your discs is not compatible with your player, either reburn it on your own media, or ask me for a replacement.
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#171487
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Classic Edition: Return of the Jedi by Ocpmovie (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/171487/action/topic#171487
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Yeah, I added a glow to the text and did some other fun stuff to it.

I'll do some more fun stuff to Coov's three Jedi covers, when I have time. =)



>>That one is my favorite - I had never seen the poster before that it was based on.

=) It took a lot of image editing to make that one work. I changed the colors a lot, and combined two versions of the poster. Now there's a nice scan of it in the Sansweet Covers book - wish I'd had that ...
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#170810
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Classic Edition: Return of the Jedi by Ocpmovie (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/170810/action/topic#170810
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Covers:

http://orangecow.org/starwars/swcovers-ocp/
http://orangecow.org/starwars/swcovers-nonocp/


Here are my own preferred covers for the Star Wars releases.

Here's my personal favorite Star Wars cover, by Coov:
http://orangecow.org/starwars/swcovers-nonocp/classicwood-coov.jpg

Another by Coov:
http://orangecow.org/starwars/swcovers-nonocp/classicA-coov.jpg

Deleted Magic cover, by me:
http://orangecow.org/starwars/swcovers-ocp/deletedmagicnew.jpg

Empire, two choices, both by me.
http://orangecow.org/starwars/swcovers-ocp/empireclassicnew.jpg
http://orangecow.org/starwars/swcovers-ocp/newempire2.jpg

Two other choices by Coov:
http://orangecow.org/starwars/swcovers-nonocp/esbA-brushed-coov.jpg
http://orangecow.org/starwars/swcovers-nonocp/esbredvaderwtext-coov.jpg

Here's a Revenge of the Jedi-derived cover by Coov. More are being worked on.
http://orangecow.org/starwars/swcovers-nonocp/coov_ROTJclassic.jpg


There are others, but those are my favorites.

http://orangecow.org/starwars/swcovers-ocp/
http://orangecow.org/starwars/swcovers-nonocp/