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#108678
Topic
Star Wars: Classic Edition by Ocpmovie (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/108678/action/topic#108678
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I say it's "not as it was, but as you remember it" because this version is not based on any one version of the film that has ever existed before. However, I find that a lot of people remember the movie as being in stereo, with the original crawl and with the lines from the mono mix, etc ... so I've blended a few versions together to make the perfect version of Star Wars. I thought that there were too many versions of the film out there, so just know that this really is the only version of ANH you need.

=)

I burnt the second test version of the disc today. It looks gorgeous. The laserdisc elements don't stand out much anymore, and in some cases you'd be hard-pressed to tell they're there. It just looks and feels like Star Wars. The print retains the very colorful look of the 2004 DVD, perhaps too colorful, but I don't mind that at all. It's brighter than the 04 DVD, but still a bit darker than what you might be used to from the laserdiscs. If so, turn up your TV set. The print looks excellent, and the brightness is I think as it should be. There is the isolated score, and the fanmade THX Intro.

The most exciting thing is the commentary, which is all new, edited together from interviews, and is definitely the best ANH commentary yet assembled.

Here is the list of participants:

George Lucas
Anthony Daniels - C3PO
David Prowse - Darth Vader
Peter Mayhew - Chewbacca
Kenny Baker - R2D2
Mark Hamill - Luke Skywalker
Carrie Fisher - Princess Leia
Harrison Ford - Han Solo
Garrick Hagon - Biggs Darklighter
Ken Ralston - ILM
Dennis Muren - ILM
Ralph McQuarrie - Production Paintings
Charles Lippincott - Former VP, Lucasfilm
James Earl Jones - Voice of Darth Vader
John Williams - Composer
Irvin Kerschner - Director, The Empire Strikes Back
Frank Oz - Yoda, The Empire Strikes Back
Jeremy Bulloch - Boba Fett, The Empire Strikes Back
Matthew Carter - Bib Fortuna, Return of the Jedi

Subtitles pop up to identify the speaker.

Menus are based on the 2004 DVD, but I've made some fixes to make them match this version ... removing references to "Jabba the Hutt" and all that.

I still noticed a couple problems with some of the shots, so I have to reencode the film and burn a new version, but it is otherwise done, and amazing.

I also burned the final version of Special Edition Hype, so that is available!
Post
#107534
Topic
Star Wars: Classic Edition by Ocpmovie (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/107534/action/topic#107534
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So, a couple days back I burnt the first test disc of the Classic Edition ... TD1. Some of the menus were temporary, and this was mainly to check whether the movie looked or sounded okay.

Surprisingly, it sounded great ... the "hissy" sound of the monomix was completely lost in the conversion to AC3 (which involved a bit of lowpass processing), so the entire soundtrack sounds as it should.

As far as the look of it went, all the laserdisc shots looked great and didn't stand out, but I wasn't happy with the black levels. On the entire movie. I didn't like how dark and overcontrasty the transfer on the 2004 DVD was, so I'd brightened it up a bit in my transfer, but sadly the black levels got too high. (Anyone who's made their own fan DVD knows that the conversion to M2V for DVD brings the black levels waaaay up to grey unless they're "true black").

This supposedly minor problem required me to painstakingly color correct the entire film from scratch, which took a while. I took the opportunity to fix a couple of FX shots further and add some artificial sharpening to the laserdisc shots to make them appear to blend with the DVD shots better.

The fixes I did look surprisingly good. "Yes, I'll bet you have" in the Greedo scene, "Look sir, Droids!", painting out the Rontos ... all my most difficult shots looked completely effortless and as they should.

I'm pleased with it, and I'm re-rendering part 4 now.

I've redone the opening crawl, which looks perfect. In this new render, I had some problems with the frame rate of Shadowman's opening shot, so I have to figure that out and reencode pt. 1. I also have to edit together a commentary track and do some new menus and things.

Then, ready to go. I'll be burning TD2 very soon.


>>Did you correct the screwed up channels in the 2004 score, and why didn't you wait to use Cowclops 2.0?

Yes, because I didn't use the 2004 mix at all. Only the 1993 stereo and 1977 mono mixes are used.

I asked TR47 for Cowclops 2.0, but he's not sending it out yet. I decided that considering what I'm doing, it wouldn't make all that much difference really! The laserdisc shots tend to pass quickly.

>> That being said; you rock!

Thanks. =)

>> Should we expect Eps 5 & 6?

Nope!

Do I still rock?
Post
#106909
Topic
Star Wars: Classic Edition by Ocpmovie (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/106909/action/topic#106909
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A million thanks once again to Russ Dawson ... my main man has just given me, for the umpteenth time, a million obscure DVDs that have come in very handy. =)

He's had me look at the Gkar, the Moth3r, the Molly, the Isomix, the EditDroid2, and the old Dr. Gonzo with commentary. The final cut will contain a couple of shots from the Gkar, which is an amazing-quality transfer of the 1997 Special Edition, done in Germany. Sadly it runs a little faster than the proper cut ... 25 fps I'm sure ... the quality is nearly as good as the official DVD but without the color correction they did. Given the choice though, I would and did use the 2004 DVD, as the transfer there is unusually sharp and the color correction does bring out detail that you wouldn't otherwise see. Still, wonderful to see.

I am planning to include the isolated score on this disc, and possibly a commentary by the cast which I would edit together myself.

After I posted those screenshots, I decided to have another go at restoring the opening crawl, so that should look better in the final ... I also restored the "Look sir, Droids!" shot using 2004 elements so that screen grab is very much obsolete now. =)
Post
#106708
Topic
Star Wars: Classic Edition by Ocpmovie (Released)
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/106708/action/topic#106708
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From the editor that brought you Deleted Magic …

Star Wars: Classic Edition.

It’s the original version of Star Wars, not the way it was, but the way you remember it.

My source was the 2004 DVD, and the original TR47 (Cowclops) transfer.

I wanted to create an Original Trilogy Star Wars disc that would look as good as the 2004 DVD, and have a new sound mix taken from the 93 laserdisc mix, with elements of the mono mix mixed in.

In short, my own ideal version of the original Star Wars - the only version I need. I think some of you might agree with that.

The disc is presented in 16:9 anamorphic widescreen, with Dolby Digital sound.

The 2004 DVD image has been slightly color corrected to be brighter overall.

All Special Edition elements have been removed, even Biggs. If you want to see Biggs or Jabba, you’d best pop in our supplemental disc - I think it’s called Deleted Magic. =)

The opening crawl does not say “A New Hope” - it is a reconstruction done earlier for Deleted Magic. The opening shot has been restored to its former pre-2004 glory by Shadowman, also from Deleted Magic.

There are a couple of VERY MINOR fixes from the 2004 DVD that I have let stay in. Only a very sharp-eyed viewer will notice them.

Original Trilogy shots have been edited in from the old TR47 (Cowclops) transfer, from the 1993 Definitive Collection laserdisc.

In normal cases, the shot has simply been dropped in in the appropriate place, and is not jarring.

In other cases, Special Edition material has been literally painted out of the frame, combining the laserdisc image and the 2004 DVD image in the same frame. This results in a sharper image overall. Rontos and CGI Dewbacks were removed in Mos Eisley, Luke’s Binary Sunset was restored to its original shape, and wipes/dissolves were carefully created so that 1977 elements could wipe to 2004 ones. Using a tiny dissolve to add some extra footage of Han talking, the Greedo scene was restored to its original timing.

The 1993 laserdisc mix is the source of the soundtrack, apart from several lines of dialogue which have been taken instead from the 1977 mono mix … a 1985 (?) PAL TV airing of the film in the UK was used for these. The sound is quite clear but has a slight tape hiss on it which you’ll notice if listening closely. In some cases, the lines used are so quick that you won’t be able to notice that tape hiss at all.

From mono mix:

  • All Beru lines
  • Stormtrooper: “It’s secure, move on to the next one.”
  • C3PO: “The tractor beam is coupled to the main reactor in seven locations …”
  • Stormtrooper: “Close the blast doors!”
  • Luke: “Blast it, Wedge, where are you?”

The mono mix was considered definitive at the time, so I thought it was appropriate to include the most notable changes from it, the final mix ever done back in 1977.

I had to do a new sound mix specifically for this version, because for whatever reason, the frame count is not exactly the same as in TR47’s - it should be, as the timing is the same, but it isn’t. Something about the 2004 DVD versus the 1993 laserdisc - I had to make some really minor trims and extensions in the sound (2 frames here, 2 frames there) to keep it in sync throughout.

These JPEG screenshots are slightly compressed, doesn’t quite do this nice transfer justice. I have one very minor regret about this transfer - I had to edit it in Final Cut Pro as 16:9 miniDV … if you know miniDV, you know that the color encoding in that otherwise lossless format is slightly poor, resulting in a blockiness around pure reds and pure blues. This can’t be seen on a TV screen usually, only on a computer. You can see this on the Binary Sunset screenshot at bottom.

Opening logos are from Empire of Dreams.

Menus and opening animations were created especially for this disc by me - I’ve used them to lead into a slightly altered version of some of the the menus from the official DVDs, which I thought was appropriate for this disc considering.

The disc opens with a montage of characters against Stars, covered by a big Star Wars logo which recedes into the distance and says “Classic Edition.”

The edit is now done. I am encoding the edit to M2V for DVD use now - the next step is to burn a test disc and see how my edits look on a TV. I have to fiddle with the menus a bit, and then - done.

This was done for my own personal amusement. It should be done this week-ish and start floating around in the usual way.

Enjoy, folks.

My email remains: *****.

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Ocpmovie Star Wars DVD release list:

1 - Deleted Magic
2 - Return of the Ewok and Other Little Films
3 - Special Edition Hype
4 - Star Wars Classic Edition

If anyone does a custom cover for this, I would recommend using Poster D - the Carnival type poster. It’s my favorite. Wish I had a good scan of it actually. It should continue off from the Style D poster to look like the back is wrapped in brown paper, a la Fight Club.

Cheers.

Post
#106018
Topic
OCPDVD3: Special Edition Hype (Released)
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/106018/action/topic#106018
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Hey everyone! I’m proud to announce the third Orange Cow Productions Star Wars disc - Special Edition Hype!

Coming hot on the heels of Deleted Magic and Return of the Ewok, this fun little disc will transport you back to 8 years ago in a galaxy very near … when Star Wars was coming back out in theaters and you couldn’t watch TV without running into some cheesy special about the Special Edition.

The DVD collects the specials The Magic and the Mystery (FOX), Star Wars: An MTV Movie Special, and The Force Returns (Sci-Fi).

This DVD is based on a VHS tape Alex Brunelle (ReverendBeastly) sent me … the quality isn’t great, but then neither are these specials! I’ve done them what justice I could by including the original commercials from 1997, which you can watch the specials with or without. It’s amazing how dated/cheesy these specials already are …

Also included, as an easter egg, for the first time ever on DVD, is my 24-minute documentary from 2002, “Talking to People About Star Wars” … in which some friends of mine … amateur actors and actresses I know actually … express their thoughts about Phantom Menace, and how it’s hard to be a Star Wars fan these days. It’s a very interesting watch, as they kind of speak for all of us, in different ways, with different opinions. The doc can be watched at orangecow.org somewhere.

Here’s the specs for the DVD:

Original ads:
Taco Bell - “Feel the Force”
Pizza Hut - “The Pizza Head Show”
Pepsi - “Boy/Usher/Vader”
Empire Strikes Back SE tv ad

Star Wars: The Magic and the Mystery: Hosted by Howie Long, this hourlong special by FOX looks back at the impact of the saga, talking to the cast (Fisher/Ford/Hamill) and famous filmmakers (Ron Howard/Ridley Scott/Irvin Kerschner), while hyping the Special Edition. Features footage of Declan Mulholland as Jabba the Hutt unavailable elsewhere. Interviews are taken from the same sessions as “Making of The Special Edition,” but are occasionally different. Interviews with famous filmmakers used in this special were also used on the 2004 DVD, for that featurette with Peter Jackson in it. The special is fairly cheesy, and Howie Long is a particularly awful host. We see footage of the SE premiere. Notorious USC professor Drew Casper is also featured, frightening any USC film student who might be watching. Steven Spielberg, Magic Johnson.

Star Wars: An MTV Movie Special - Fairly amusing interviews with Fisher/Ford/Hamill. Very random MTV type celebrities are asked about Star Wars. Carmen Electra. Gwen Stefani. Green Day.

Sci-Fi: The Force Returns - Ultra low-budget documentary. The Sci-Fi Channel was still kind of in its infancy then, and this one is kind of amusingly ghetto. More stock interviews from Making of the Special Edition sessions, and poorly-filmed stock from some convention somewhere. Men dressed up as Princess Leia. And hype, Jabba hype, Jabba hype!

Talking to People About Star Wars - 2002 doc by myself … Real fans talk about coping with their disappointment about Phantom Menace, and what comes next …

The three specials can be watched either with or without the original commercials. Menus have chapter selection. There is also a section for just the four Star Wars related ads.

The opening menu is kind of my very non-affectionate tribute to the Special Editions. Might amuse those O-OT purists.

Enjoy, folks!

My email is, as ever, tygerbug at yahoo.com.

Post
#105392
Topic
DVD: Return of the Ewok and Other Little Films (Released)
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/105392/action/topic#105392
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I don't have the non-Conrad Making of Star Wars. Perhaps someone will do a disc of that with the alternate audio, would be easy enough and somewhat interesting I suppose.

I have the 97 usher Pepsi commercial on tape somewhere as well. A while back, I promised ReverendBeastly that I would transfer three of his poor-quality 97 Special Edition specials (and commercials) to DVD as "Special Edition Hype" ... so it might wind up on that.

The Donny and Marie segment is the same from Rarities I. The video quality is pretty good but the audio is crackly.

The Richard Pryor Cantina segment appeared on Rarities II a while back. Someone ought to grab the new official version from the new Pryor DVDs, as the quality would obviously be much better.

Hopefully more news on Star Wars Classic Edition soon. Waiting on some new stuff from Russ Dawson, actually.


By the way, many thanks to Skot Kirkwood, Kenneth Anderson, Russ Dawson, JED, and Guillermo Gomez for their contributions to this disc.

The Mark Hamill Muppet Show is indeed available on DVD, and can be rented at many Blockbusters.

This encode is taken from that DVD, but it might be an extra generation of quality down the line by now. I'd have to check to be sure - quality is quite good though.


The encode of Making of the Special Edition is courtesy Russ Dawson, and is the best I've ever seen. It includes the Jedi SE trailer. The encode of Soundtrack! is courtesy Kenneth Anderson and is official-DVD quality. It is 16x9 formatted even though it's a 4x3 video, so on your computer it may appear in a smaller window onscreen. It will play fine on a TV however.




I have completed my third and I think final version of the Return of the Ewok disc.

Here's the info:

D1: first attempt.
D2: Same as D1, with an extra Jacket Picture added.
D3: Jabba scene further reedited and improved.


I have burned several copies of D2, so you might not get quite the best version of the Jabba scene ... all D1 and D2 copies are marked as such on the disc.

I would like to request that only the D3 version be torrented.
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#105244
Topic
DVD: Return of the Ewok and Other Little Films (Released)
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/105244/action/topic#105244
Time

The second DVD from the creator of Deleted Magic.

Orange Cow Productions is proud to present "Return of the Ewok and Other Little Films."

This classic 24-minute film stars Warwick Davis as he tries to become a star - shot on the sets of Return of the Jedi, the film features your favorite Star Wars stars (Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, David Prowse, Jeremy Bulloch), as well as veteran actor Roy Kinnear.

I’d like to thank Skot the man Kirkwood for digging up a tape of Return of the Ewok that some fan shot with a camcorder at a screening. I’ve done a restoration job on it, as best I could, and I’m proud
to provide it on DVD.

Extra stuff on the disc includes new “Deleted Magic” edits of the deleted Treadwell and Jabba scenes from Star Wars, with the Biggs, Chief Bast and Cantina scenes …

You’ll also get a good transfer of The Making of Star Wars Special Edition (1997), along with other classic stuff -

+  Commercial for C-3POs
+  Burger Chef Commercial (1977)

  • Hi-Vision - George Lucas Japanese commercial
  • “The Creatures Go To England” - Return of the Jedi (from Classic Creatures/From Star Wars to Jedi)
  • Donny and Marie Osmond Star Wars Tribute (1977)
  • The Muppet Show with Mark Hamill, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew and R2-D2
  • Mark Hamill intro to Star Wars on TV (1984)
  • Star Tours Ride Video
  • THX Soundtrack! narrated by James Earl Jones

As always, you can ask me for the discs at [address removed].
 

RETURN OF THE EWOK

Written and directed by
David Tomblin

Starring Warwick Davis as himself

Roy Kinnear as the Talent Agent

Robert Watts as the Producer

Harrison Ford as himself

Mark Hamill as himself

Carrie Fisher as herself

Anthony Daniels as C-3PO

David Prowse as himself and Darth Vader

Jeremy Bulloch as Boba Fett

Frank Oz performing Yoda

Tim Rose performing Salacious Crumb

Peter Mayhew as Chewbacca

David Tomblin as the Choreographer, and the voice of Darth Vader and Boba Fett

Sue Davis as Warwick’s mom

Ashley Davis as Warwick’s Dad

Kim Davis as a little girl

Chelsea Football Club as themselves

R2-D2, Jabba the Hutt, Max Rebo, Droopy McCool and Sy Snootles as themselves

Music by John Williams

“Take the Long Way Home” performed by Supertramp

Special thanks to
George Lucas
Richard Marquand
Elstree Studios
Heathrow Airport
Chelsea Football Club
and the entire “Revenge of the Jedi” production team

Unofficial version edited by
Garrett Gilchrist

Materials provided by
Skot Kirkwood

With special thanks to
Starwars.com Hyperspace
Originaltrilogy.com
The Star Wars cutscenes list
Connie Green, Lepconnie.com

An
Orange Cow Productions
release

24 min., 1982-3
 

Also featuring:

+  Commercial for C-3POs
+  Burger Chef Commercial (1977)

  • Hi-Vision - George Lucas Japanese commercial
  • “The Creatures Go To England” - Return of the Jedi (from Classic Creatures/From Star Wars to Jedi)

Deleted Magic clips:

  • Luke and Treadwell

  • Biggs 1

  • Biggs 2

  • Early Cantina Scene

  • Jabba The Hutt

  • Vader and Chief Bast

  • Donny and Marie Osmond Star Wars Tribute (1977)

  • The Muppet Show with Mark Hamill, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew and R2-D2

  • Making of Star Wars Special Edition (1997)

  • Mark Hamill intro to Star Wars on TV (1984)

  • Star Tours Ride Video

  • THX Soundtrack! narrated by James Earl Jones

Post
#105243
Topic
Star Wars: Deleted Magic (Released)
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/105243/action/topic#105243
Time
Hey Eric! You mean the disc of little web videos, right? I'd seen it all before, but thanks for sending it.


Review of the day --

Andrew Sandford

I watched Deleted Magic tonight and I just have to say thank you very, very much. Thank you for your time, thank you for your effort and above all thank you for treating a major part of my childhood with the love, care and attention I've always felt it deserved. I hope a copy of your work finds its way into the hands of George Lucas, maybe it would help him realise that the reason Star Wars was so popular was because they were films with a soul, far removed from the charm free leaden scripted CGI affairs he's attached the Star Wars name to in recent years. Looking forward with much anticipation to yor next instalment of Deleted Magic.

Kind regards,

Andy
Post
#104885
Topic
Star Wars: Deleted Magic (Released)
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/104885/action/topic#104885
Time
Thanks to TheDarkOne, who is posting the DVD on the newsgroup tomorrow. Newsgroup folks, enjoy it there. It's still available on myspleen of course (when I checked yesterday it was one of their top 10 most active files), and Brian McElheron has posted it ... somewhere, I don't know. He writes to say the following:

Hi Garrett,

Congratulations on the great review from Biggs Darklighter.
Only one important review left. The one and only George Lucas.
Hopefully he will see it for what it is and not sue.

The site that I posted the DVD to is full of Star Wars fanatics.
I've been getting a lot of positive feedback that I wanted to pass
along
to you. All I did was act as a distributor. You deserve the all of
the
praise I'm getting. Here's a few excerpts;

From Coraniz;
"Wow, this is really awesome. About 20 times more interesting than the
shit on the special edition."

From PepsiOtaku:
"Just finished watching this. So amazing"

From rob5d4:
"just watched this thing and it was amazing.
best star wars related fan thing ive ever seen.
cant wait for the other ones"

And after the site went down, a little humorous reply;
From Zogo:
"the guy who put this site up is being tortured at skywalker ranch as I
type this."


Most of the rest of the 100+ replies I've gotten have been fairly
generic "Thank Yous" but I thought you should know that I have not
heard
ANY negative feedback at all.
Post
#104701
Topic
Star Wars: Deleted Magic (Released)
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/104701/action/topic#104701
Time
So, today as it happens I got the only review for this film that really matters.

Sure, the fans seem to like it.

But what does the star of this film think about it?

What does Garrick Hagon - Biggs Darklighter himself - think about Star Wars: Deleted Magic?


Dear Garrett,

The answer is--it's great! I had a fun morning yesterday watching it.
Brought back memories and had a wealth of stuff I hadn't seen. What a
terrific edit and collating job and such very good quality
reproduction!

Thanks to you and Skot and all best wishes, hope to meet up again in
the
future.

Garrick



There's your answer then.

Hard to explain how happy I feel, but you can guess on that.


Having Mr. Hagon enjoy this film is all the validation one could ever need ... I feel incredibly happy and proud, and go off happy now .... before the inevitable cease and desist and lawsuit.


Ruben, that's a beautiful cover ... I was going to use that same photo of Luke and Biggs for my own cover. I might actually make a similar one myself. =) Needs Jabba on the front, and other stuff, though. And needs to be about 5 times bigger.



The fact that we're mentioned on Ain't It Cool News is scary ... everyone on the internet knows now. What was an underground thing in my little room here has now gotten to the point where Lucasfilm surely knows. Oh well.

As I said, downloads have been insane, and yes, the Starwarz.com website for the film has been taken down for now. It was crippling poor T'Bone's bandwidth. This was not my decision, I'm finding out about it right now.

You can NO LONGER DOWNLOAD the film from starwarz.com, as I write this, hopefully the site and FAQ will return but they're gone for now, yes.

The torrent should still be available at myspleen, enjoy the full DVD there.


I'm really glad that the discussion at Ain'tItCool came down on the side that it was okay to do this, though. Maybe Lucasfilm will think the same?




And Neil - sorry about the 2004 audio, it bothers me too. I was trying to create a version of the final battle that was less effective than the final cut, so using the badly-remixed audio didn't bother me too much there ... I know I should have used the real thing though.

However, I'm working on an ANH that will solve such troubles.


Please refrain from asking for copies of the film in this thread. It's floating around there now. It will come to you.
Post
#104470
Topic
Star Wars: Deleted Magic (Released)
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/104470/action/topic#104470
Time
Thanks everyone!

Excerpt from another email I just wrote:

It's really hard to tell how many copies there are out there now ... The MOV version seems to have been downloaded 400 times in 5 days from T'Bone's site ... Putting him at 100% in under a week - I've really crippled his traffic! The response has been insane. This was just a little something I slapped together in a couple weekends, in my spare time, kind of creating the DVD that I wanted to see, and the response has shown me that I was definitely on to something ... It's clear that there is a HUGE demand for "real" 1977-style Star Wars stuff, that Lucasfilm is not necessarily living up to. (Which is the entire purpose of this site.) I really hope that if he sees this (or any originaltrilogy.com project), he gets the point and actually releases his own DVD of cut scenes and archive footage, and the original trilogy on DVD, and all that .... and doesn't just sue me. =\ That said, Lucas has finally started talking about a Deleted Scenes disc in the 6-disc box set, so we'll see.


--

I'm hoping to include more random interesting Star Wars things on the *Cough DVD. So look for that.
Post
#104314
Topic
Star Wars: Deleted Magic (Released)
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/104314/action/topic#104314
Time
Here was my reply, by the by, if you're curious.



Now that letter made my day. =) Thanks Brian. When you work hard on something, you really want to know that people like it, and appreciate it in the way it was intended, and so it's really nice to get letters like that. If only I could get letters like it for my own original films! =)

I have the same opinion of what's happened to Star Wars ... it's a shame that we can't get the original versions of the films on DVD, and that Lucas seems to have vanished into his own success. The prequels are a shame, and it's easy to forget what an accomplishment the original film really was, and what classics all three films were. For me, making this DVD was a great way to rediscover Star Wars in an strange way, by taking it apart until it all started to look new. You tend to miss things when you watch them a million times over since you were a kid ... y'know?

Star Wars was a classic of its time, and for all time, and I think it's up to the filmmakers of today, the youngsters growing up on Jackson and Raimi and Aronofsky and Rodriguez, to create the great classics of tomorrow in the same mold. I write a lot of fantasy these days, and a Star Wars type film is definitely what I'd want to make if I could ever get the budget together.

All the best, glad you liked it, and have a good one .... stay tuned to originaltrilogy.com forum 9, as I'm working on some other discs, including a restoration of Return of the Ewok, and a restoration of the original Star Wars.

Cheers!
Post
#104312
Topic
Star Wars: Deleted Magic (Released)
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/104312/action/topic#104312
Time
Ha on the covers ... quite cute. There IS an official CD cover (er ... label) y'know. People who bought the dang thing know that. There IS going to be an official Amaray-size cover soon, I haven't heard from my pro cover artists in a long time, I may be forced to do it myself ... I'll email them I guess.

Orders for the real thing have dropped off completely now that it's torrented, proving what I always knew ... people on the internet are ridiculous cheapskates.

Here's my review of the day:



Hi Garrett,

 


    I stumbled onto Deleted Magic on a bit torrent site.  I downloaded it without really having a clue what it was other than a collection of deleted scenes.  I figured I had probably seen all of them since I grew up a Star Wars nerd. 


    What I found left me speechless.  I've only finished about 2/3 of the Lost Cut of Star Wars.  I can't believe how awesome it is.  I would have watched everything on the DVD last night if I didn't have to get up so damn early for work.  


    I've become somewhat disillusioned with the Star Wars franchise in the past few years.  Between George Lucas raiding my wallet every few years for yet another new edition with minimal "improvements" or extras and the sheer god-awful acting in Episode 2, I had almost quit caring about something that was a big part of my childhood. 


    Like any self respecting Star Wars nerd, I still saw Episode 2 several times and am quite anxious to see Episode 3.  Still, the magic has been slipping away for me.  Your "Lost Cut" was exactly the kind of thing that the DVD releases have been missing.  Congratulations Garrett, you rock as a film maker because you have succeeded where Lucas has failed miserably over and over.  Deleted magic had me once again, captivated with the original.  Its been years since I was that excited about Star Wars.  I am driving all my friends insane talking about it all morning.  What's more amazing, I'm writing a damn fan letter.  That is so... not me. 


    I just wanted to let you know that I thoroughly enjoyed the work you did with this.  I thank you very much for providing me with such great entertainment.  I wish you nothing but prosperity in your film making career and I hope that when George Lucas finally does get wind of this, rather than sue you, I hope he asks you to come meet him.



Brian McElheron
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#104310
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Idea & Info: Return of the Ewok - on Hyperspace
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/104310/action/topic#104310
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Return of the Ewok was shot at the same time as Jedi obviously, so footage intended for it appears on the "making of Return of the Jedi" film reels, and even on the actual film reels for the film, in the case of the Boba Fett clip.

It would be simple enough to construct a very nice looking 35mm film print of the film, if Lucas ever wanted to. I assume most or all of the footage has survived.
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#103816
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Idea: Star Wars (1977): Classic Edition
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/103816/action/topic#103816
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Yes indeedy!

As far as spanish subtitles go, don't really want to go through the work of putting 'em into DVD Studio Pro 3. A spanish audio track might be cute, but I'd rather use my audio space for alternate English audio. I could, I suppose ....

I'll probably not screw with the colors on the 2004 DVD too much. It's an awful-looking transfer, very poorly done, but it would take a LOT of work to make it look any better. As mverta has found out. I'll just keep it the way it is for now ... apart from the opening shot, which will be redone. Maybe someone can steal mverta's copy for future use ...
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#103544
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Info: Interesting Video Finds Alternate Return Of The Jedi Dialogue
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There's an old Maria Shriver interview where Mark Hamill also talks about playing Luke again in episode 9. He's wearing a horrible blue striped shirt. It's on a disc called Star Wars Rarities that Russ Dawson sent me ...

Can you email me a capture of that aide clip, Jay? ... tygerbug at yahoo.com. Would like to confirm/deny its cutness.