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#246201
Topic
<em><strong>Eyes Wide Shut</strong></em> (Original Cut Preservation / Edit) (* unfinished project *)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/246201/action/topic#246201
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Let me jump in. Maybe this will help. I lifted this from Matthew Hunt's website

"Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
5.1 Dolby Digital stereo, colour, 1.85:1, 35mm.

Directed, produced, and co-written by Stanley Kubrick. A sexual and psychological thriller starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, released in 1999. The narrative concerns marital jealousy and temptation, and it seemed to prefigure the collapse of Cruise and Kidman's own off-screen marriage. Eyes Wide Shut was the subject of intense speculation and rumour, climaxing in a frenzy of anticipation. The increasingly lengthy periods between Kubrick's completed film projects caused much online debate. The secrecy in which Kubrick shrouded each of his productions, and his seemingly endless filming schedules, added to the internet gossip. Kubrick did, however, allow stills photographer Manuel Harlan onto the otherwise closed set.

Before the film's premiere, the scene in which Cruise and Kidman kiss in front of a mirror was released in isolation as a teaser-trailer at the ShoWest trade fair. Intriguingly, the two versions of this kissing scene (the one in the film itself and the one in the teaser) differ slightly. The film version is shorter, is cropped on all four sides, and utilises an alternate take for the moment when Kidman removes her glasses. Kubrick died of a heart-attack a few days after completing Eyes Wide Shut and it is perhaps no coincidence that this posthumously-released film is not available in the version he originally intended.

In America, black-cloaked figures were digitally inserted to mask the simulated sex in the film's orgy sequence, in order to secure an 'R'-rating from the MPAA. (Like A Clockwork Orange, the film's extensive nudity is exclusively female and largely gratuitous.) The digital figures were, thankfully, not present when the film was screened in the UK. However, for the UK release the orgy scene was censored in a different way: a recital from the Bhagavad Gita during the Meditations music in the orgy scene was removed from the soundtrack, replaced by meaningless chanting.

The Bhagavad Gita recital is not present in any video edition of the film, though it is included on the film's soundtrack CD. All Warners VHS and DVDs are 1.33:1 unmatted (Kubrick's preferred video format for the film), though they have numerous alterations: they are clearly cropped when compared with the ShoWest teaser, a reflected crew-member in the bathroom overdose scene was digitally erased, the jarring reel-changes were smoother, and the intentional graininess of the image was reduced. All NTSC editions have the orgy sex digitally censored whereas all PAL and SeCAM editions do not. Italian inserts were filmed to replace the English-language text in the warning letter handed to Bill and the newspaper article he reads, and are available on the Italian PAL VHS version."


There is also a web page that has photos that compare scenes between the US and the International versions. I have the link but I am not sure if I can post it.
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#244053
Topic
'Let It Be' - has anyone done done a quality preservation? (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/244053/action/topic#244053
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Originally posted by: TheCassidy


If you're interested, I made a cover for Let It Be, specifically for the Demonoid version which I downloaded. Here it is, if you want the high-res version, let me know. I have also designed replacement covers for the other Beatles films, to match. Cheers.



Could yould post a link to this or at least upload a flat version. I can't get the image you posted to come out right for my cover.
Thanks
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#237388
Topic
Idea &amp; Info: a Preservation of Alien Evolution doco?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/237388/action/topic#237388
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Originally posted by: triffid
Can you be more specific about this, Suntech? They never told us that the AQ disc 9 contains ALL the stuff from the laserdiscs. But they transfered the materials in a way which make us believe it is everything.


The Laserdisc is the Special Widescreen Collector's Edition. (CAV)
Exclusive Collector's Section including
Premiere Presentation of Out-Take footage.
Interview with Ridley Scott.
Behind-The Scene Footage.
H.R. Giger's Paintings and Drawings.
Conceptual art work.
Rare Production Photographs.
Screenplay Excerpts.
Annotated History of the film.
Theatrical Trailer and original Advertising Materials.


I do not have the remote to my laserdisc player so I can not step through all of it but what I have seen, to me looks as though that it is presented differently than that of the DVDs
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#237208
Topic
Idea &amp; Info: a Preservation of Alien Evolution doco?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/237208/action/topic#237208
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Originally posted by: triffid
Both Suntech and Bigrob are mentioning their laserdiscs. Are you able to compare the LDs with Alien Quadrilogy disc #9, guys? Did Lauzirika's team move all bonuses from the two collectors edition laserdiscs to the DVD set or did they leave something behind? Suntech is even suspicious that he found some unused footage already. I am waitng for a definitive answer about the LDs content for years and nobody can tell this for sure.
I recorded the Making of Alien3 on a DVD-R again, this time without the drops. I am also buying the Making of Alien Resurrection LD now, but I cannot copy it. Should I borrow the LD to Meedermow or Jonno?



There are some things on my Laser disc that I do not see on any other format. Most of it is just presented differently.
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#233743
Topic
Alien 3 HD - on TV... (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/233743/action/topic#233743
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Well since it will be a High Definition Broadcast, I thought it some of us would want to know about it and check it out. I will not be able to record it in HD and preserve it myself. But I will be able to watch in in HD and see how it compares with the transfers that I have in the Legacy and Quadrilogy box sets. Seeing that Blade Runner in High Definition was done by at least two different members of this forum and there are multiple versions of Blade Runner in HD out there. I thought it might be of interest to someone.
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#233591
Topic
<em><strong>Official Release Thread - Alien Appendix</strong></em> - Updated with #2 info (Released)
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/233591/action/topic#233591
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Originally posted by: meedermow
suntech - what client are you using, with Azureus this sometimes happens to me - actually remove the torrent from your client window (but elect to keep the files on your harddrive) - when you open the torrent again - the client should recognise the files - let me know if that works.


Well I tried that and though it took a while it got to 99.9%. It dit a hash check got to 99.4% then it downloaded until it go to 99.9% then it stoped down loading. So I deleted the files were less than 100% and copied them back from the disc. and success!
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#233541
Topic
<em><strong>Official Release Thread - Alien Appendix</strong></em> - Updated with #2 info (Released)
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/233541/action/topic#233541
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Originally posted by: dark_jedi
OK ALL of you that got this disc from meedermow(the Dual-layer version)PLEASE help get this seeded,I need to make it up to the few guys that were almost half way done,I have deleted the old one and re-upped the new one,so jump on board.
DJ


Well The best I could get this time is 99.3 % and It wouldn't seed. It is uploading as some files are 100% but it won't seed. Now this is my first time at doing this so I may be doing something wrong. here is what I did.
1. Went to mysppleen and clicked on the torrent.
2. Started the torrent to set up the directory files.
3. Stop the torrent and copied the files from the disc to the torrent directory
4. Had my torrent program do a hash check.
5. Restarted the torrent

Did I miss something?