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I’m pretty sure several copies are circulating

Good luck man. Star Wars can wait, health is the most important thing

Jesus, did people forget how to READ?

Brand new clips from “The Roddenberry Vault”. I f’in can’t wait till my copy arrives. Come on, amazon!!!

BTW does anybody plan to do some colour correction of the clips? I plan to do some noise reduction, but I suck at colour correcting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8c9Ox9ZvmM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMNZvOhl0cY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=En7AOULh4Bc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vdUgDH_rEE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcjx1dTCm7o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qn9XN1iwt0M

The colours - oh sorry, I meant colars, look absolutely beautiful. No crushed blacks, no overblown whites, nice contrast, love it. But I have a question - why does the level of grain change from shot to shot?

OK, that looks like a fun action movie. But it’s weird to see my favourite Batman to play a villain.

Interesting. So I was right and it was them trying to get the best mattes? Thanks for the info guys

Isn’t it during the closing credits of Empire of Dreams? If I remember correctly

I unfortunately can’t afford to help right now so I just wanted to tell you how much I LOVE what you uploaded till now 😃

Bill Organa said:

Hello!!! I am new in Originaltrilogy.com and I do not know how to download the Respecialized Edition (if I can). Somebody could help me?

Well, reading is a good start.

If you would read the first post, you would find this

This can be found at the usual paradoxical place in the same thread as the Despecialized Edition.

So the next logical thing is to read the Despecialized edition thread : http://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Harmys-STAR-WARS-Despecialized-Edition-HD-V25-MKV-IS-OUT-NOW/id/12713

There are detailed information in the first post how to get this.
To make it even easier, this is a direct link to a google document : https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yLsvexWBVM8IYSGopKuSfsGk5YIgCwQWd23bqb5ryD4/pub

OK this is straight forward question from a guy who tries to understand everything behind blue/green screens etc.
After watching several documentaries, mostly about Star Wars and Star Trek I noticed one thing - ILM created (or popularized?) a new method of filming miniatures - filming them in multiple passes using their motion control camera system.

I know that they did like one pass with the unlit model, one pass with only the lights etc., however I have no clue WHY they did shoot it like this? Does the final optical composite look more “real”, more “3D”? Or is it simply because of some purely technical reason, e.g. minimize the “blue/green spill” problem?

I love TOS and TNG. I didn’t like Ds9 in the beginning but I learned to love it. I didn’t learn to love Voyager. And I loved the first 3 seasons of Enterprise. Plus most of the first 9 movies.

poita said:

Swazzy said:

Would this do any good for laserdisc captures? (i.e. the neglected, unaltered version of Millennial Garbage Movie '98)

Yes, stacking frames can really help with laserdisc and VHS captures, it can get rid of player-induced noise, and if you have multiple discs, then it can help remove dropouts and pressing errors, while reducing the chroma noise etc.

I’ve got an opposite question - if you have a grainy DVD and a Blu-ray so degrained that it looks too cartoony, is there a way to combine the HD image with the grain from the DVD?

Yep, the only person on the team who understood Star Trek is gone. But don’t be sad, they at least have the guy who wrote the Joel Schumacher Batman movies, so it still can be great

This is the first time I have ever seen a “full” scan of a film including the audio track. It’s fascinating to watch, thank you very much for that

Finally some good news.

Looks nice!

If they won’t release the theatrical cut next year for the 40th anniversary, Star Wars fans will be as pissed as Star Trek fans were this year, at the 50th anniversary

Yes, the only reason why to get them is to get the scenes which are not available anywhere else and the original color timing

So here is the list of all the videos from the Rinzler ebooks

Making of Star Wars

• Stuart Freeborn and his people creating alien costumes
• test footage of earlier design of R2D2
• test footage of different lightsaber techniques
• test footage of Kenny in an unpainted R2D2
• Luke with Treadwell and the moisture vaporator, different takes from the Blu-ray version
• Alec Guiness having fun with Kenny Baker as R2 and picking up 3PO in the “wrong step” scene
• “Well there we are, Mos Eisley spaceport” - “I’m ready for anything” - longer version of the scene used in the movie
• eating in the Lars homestead
• random Arabs in droid costumes
• interview with Alec Guiness, longer version of the interview used in the 1977 documentary
• cantina fight, I think it’s the same as in Empire of Dreams
• different takes of Han / Greedo sequence, includes Greedo’s “Jabba would rather have your ship” line which is missing from the Blu-ray deleted scene, also “I’ve been looking forward to it for a long time”
• putting Vader into his costumer
• stormtroopers running in corridors, probably cut from the final Death Star battle
• a longer version of “you’re braver than I thought” scene, includes the heroes running into some imperials and just walking casually away
• Han hunting the stormtroopers, I think the same scene was used in Empire of Dreams
• Luke and Leia jumping across the gap - alternate take -with more dialogue (for luck, we’re gonna need it)
• extended scene of destruction of Alderaan (and you call yourself human)
• escape from the Death Star - alternate angles
• Vader / Obiwan duel
• interview with Mark Hamill
• “That old man is mad!” “You said it Chewie” + “She’s beautiful.” - “So is life”.
• battle on the Tantive IV - alternate takes / angles
• Vader strangles the captain, original cut with original dialogue, a longer version of the clip used in Empire of Dreams
• extended scene of sandpeople trying to climb on the bantha
• bit of original title crawl + more previously unseen shots from the Tantive IV battle
• gag reel - different from the one on the official DVD

The Making of Empire Strikes Back

• Vader and Boba Fett on some parade or something?
• the droid from the beginning explores some flaming metallic debris - I wonder what it is
• alternate take of the scene where Luke says to Leia he wants to leave - different angle, and longer than the version on the Blu-ray, includes dialogue about the ice creatures and their invasion of the base, and Luke’s “stoned” reaction to “laser brain” and “fuzzball”
• Mark training with sword
• Mark interview
• instructing the rebels before the snow battle
• different angle of the scene where Vader has no helmet on
• Kerschner shooting the hangar scene
• Kersch instructing the actors for the briefing scene in the hangar with a coked up looking Carrie
• different longer version of Han yelling at Chewie, Chewie speaks english
• different version of Luke landing on Dagobah
• interview about Yoda
• different angle of Luke / Vader “steamy” duel
• Luke meets Yoda, different version
• divers rescuing R2 from the swamp
• interview with Carrie
• temp version of the snow battle, temp music from Star Wars, animatics instead of ATAT footage and death of general Veers
• ILM backstage
• watching dailies
• longer version of the wampa attack on Luke
• early version of droid at the beginning destroying something metallic, half of it is just animatic + Luke killing a wampa
• scoring
• Ben Burrt creates sounds effects
• scoring

Making of Return of the Jedi

• animatic of the forest sequence
• building Jabba
• Ewoks welcome the heroes to the tribe, different angle
• Jabba’s original English dialogue, quite different from the final subtitles
• Jabba’s death - alternate take
• 3PO loses his eye - alternate take
• preparing admiral Ackbar
• behind the scenes footage before the briefing
• bearded guy and his crew
• Luke / Vader duel alternate
• lost pilot - not on the blu-ray scene
• death of Palpatine - alternate take
• Luke tries to persuade Vader, with the director speaking for Vader
• various Sarlac shots
• shooting the desert fight
• shooting the forest battle
• temp version of the attack on the Death Star from inside features different shots from the Blu-ray scenes
• Luke in the cave, he tries to jump up and get through the bars
• Emperor teases Luke, and asks the commander to blow up Endor - different angles from the Blu-ray deleted scenes
• longer version of the team splitting up
• temp version of Luke constructing his lightsaber, with different actor playing Luke and R2 and 3PO played by toys
• Vader teases Luke - original audio
• 3PO and R2 going to Jabba’s palace - different dialogue
• original ending, with Yub Nub with English lyrics and I think also some different editing

Was this ever finished / made public?

Well if you decide to do a private topic I’d like to be invited. Even though most of my comments are how I don’t like something 😃

Wazzles said:

flametitan said:

I know AoTC and ROTS have a hard time restoring the film versions of their theatrical release…

Not ROTS. The only difference between the theatrical and DVD is a cut vs. a wipe. The DVD version was shown in HD so it is available, and the BD has the proper wipe, so a reconstruction would be very simple.

Nope. The wipe, different Wookiee houses during the battle, different audio including e.g. added stormtrooper voices when they attack the tall people …

I would really love to see proper restorations of the prequels. I mean episode 3 could be recreated easily using the Bluray, the HDTV broadcast and the NTSC DVD audio, episode 1 could be recreated using the Blu-ray, the many TV broadcasts and / or the LD transfer, but we as far as I know have no proper source for Episode II

I thought the list was covered properly on this forum but I can’t find any thread which would contain a full list of videos, so I’ll try to write down a list later today.