Just out of curiosity, any estimates on when you'll have at least one of the films transferred?
The idea that this movie fits in with TOS better than anything else is a great thought. I agree.
As for TNG/DS9/VOY - They make so much more sense if you just assume that TOS isn't canon.
I wonder what will you do with RotJ:R battle
You and me both. I am excited for someday seeing what happens there.
I apologize if I misunderstood the situation.
As for the ability to help yourself to creative projects - I think it's the future.
ABC. you're being bypassed by a better distribution method. I'm not saying that what AVP did was right (I have my doubts), but is it more important that people personally ask you for the files and talk to you, or that lots of people hear this score in the highest quality possible?
Which ones? I don't remember details, but I can tell you that that opening shot going to Mos Eisley looked absolutely terrible.
vbangle said:
Here ya are, just for you Timmy.
For someone who knows all about the internets I'm shocked that this was so hard.
Haha. I did that, of course, and turned right around when I saw it cost money. This is, after all, the internet (see other paywall models (newspapers) for examples). No one's been prosecuted for Usenet because it's not popular enough for the MPAA&Co to bother. Rapidshare is a better solution that Usenet, certainly, but I can't remember seeing a reliable rapidshare (and other file sites, yes) search/index. As for torrents, Ady states the problem well.
If you ask me, he should just get Critereon to do it. I mean, Star Wars is a huge part of cinematic history. They did Armageddon and they wouldn't do Star Wars?
Chewtobacca said:
timdiggerm said:
This is one of the biggest problems with this site : The current project distribution model basically relies on it being a small community, and the community's not going to get bigger without a way for just anyone to come here and download at least some kind of sample of why the Lucasfilm releases suck.
I see your point, but there is the newsgroup. All Adywan's AVCHD releases are there, and anyone can find them and download them however big the community becomes.
Excuse me, there is the what? I'm pretty decent at the whole internet thing, having been on the web since it was called the web back in 1998, computer science degree, etc, and I have no idea how to access "the newsgroup". Very few people use those things anymore; torrent is where it's at, when it comes to distribution.
This is one of the biggest problems with this site : The current project distribution model basically relies on it being a small community, and the community's not going to get bigger without a way for just anyone to come here and download at least some kind of sample of why the Lucasfilm releases suck.
Okay, so let's be clear on some things:
The scene where Luke's hand is repaired isn't Mark Hamill. It is, however, Luke Skywalker, and it is, despite not being Mark Hamill, part of Star Wars. I mean, obviously.
John Williams wrote music for a scene in which Luke builds his lightsabre. Composers write music for things that have been filmed, not things that haven't been filmed. It's reasonable to believe that such a scene was, at some point filmed. I believe Anthony Daniels even said it was filmed, right?
Thus, even if that's not Mark Hamill, that is the scene, and it's not "fake". The corridor Vader is walking down is seen to be outside the Death Star Hangar in the film "Return of the Ewok", which makes this scene fit incredibly well between Vader's arrival and the Droids going to Jabba's. Even if that's not Mark Hamill and he's lying in that clip, it's still a real Star Wars cut scene.
That being said, people's memories are imperfect. Mark could have filmed the scene and forgotten about it until he saw it again. Things like that can jog your memory, you know.
Yeah, not flat grey. Sorta blue-grey. More grey than anything else, but not plain grey.
Bingowings said:
^Didn't he look more like that in ROTS?
Noooooo
Actually, yeah, after some thought, I realized that I don't know that the collector is British - It's the print that is. So, could be and probably is an American who owns it.
Baltimore, Maryland, USA, North America, Earth
For the record: I think evidence in the dreaded prequels suggests that just because you see the viewer as a little man doesn't mean that he sees you as a giant. I'm thinking of Obiwan speaking remotely to the Jedi Council, I think.
My friend has got his photos up, now viewable at http://petergaultney.smugmug.com/Movies/historic/Star-Wars-at-The-Senator/13089279_nXePV#948662138_wuqj9
As for costumes - There were several folks with lightsabers, and some of them were dressed as jedi. No troopers though.
As much as those look cool, Angel, they're a long ways from footage, aren't they?
Also, way too colorless.
Oh, okay, didn't realize that line was absent for so many versions.
As for the Binary Sunset comparisons, I wish I could help you, but I don't remember now. A friend of mine took some photos, and while that's yet another layer of processing going on there, I'll let you know when they're available.
Well thanks! Like I said, what I saw didn't perfectly match Ady's work.... but the Star Destroyer was slightly red in what I saw, and that's probably not right either. So, Ady's probably spot on.
I was there.
1. From what I've read, it was actually the 1981 re-release print, as it had "EPISODE IV - A NEW HOPE" and "Close the blast doors! Close the blast doors!" was missing.
2. The print is in really, really, really great condition. The Star Destroyer in the opening looked a little pink, which I'm guessing was a tint affecting the whole film, and there was some dirt when Owen was buying the droids (I think...it was on Tatooine, I remember that). But other than that? Amazing. It was beautiful.
3. Seeing Star Wars with an enthusiastic crowd that laughs and cheers and claps throughout is a lot of fun. Also fun is the mixed reactions to Leia kissing Luke on the cheek. "Yeaaaah!" and "....uuuuuh....."
4. The print is owned by a private collector in Britain. The Senator had been run by the same family for 71 years, so they had a lot of connections. Thus, when word got out that they were closing, friends talked to friends talked to friends and got them the print to use.
P.S. The Senator will reopen under new management...soon, hopefully. Gorgeous theatre.
P.P.S Some footage viewable at the end of this - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEctWVF4J_w
A few nights ago, in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, a historic theatre called The Senator, built in 1939, closed down. It'll be reopened under new management soon, but it's the end of an era. But that's not really what I'm posting about.
To commemorate this, they got ahold of a British IB Technicolor print of A New Hope. They said it was the original, 1977 version, but things like "EPISODE IV - A NEW HOPE" and a lack of "Close the blast doors!" tell me it was the 1981 re-release. That being said, it was a high quality (like I said, IB Technicolor, if you know what that means) print, barely faded if at all, only dirt in a few places. It was beautiful.
The first time I ever saw Star Wars was on the THX Remaster VHSs, and then of course the Special Edition in theaters and the 2004 DVDs later. When I first watched Revisited, I was pleased, but not fully convinced about all of the color correction.
After watching the original version on a big screen, I can confirm that Adywan is doing this brilliantly well. Folks can argue about the changes, the newly composited lasers, etc, but the basic premise, that Adywan is color-correcting the films so they look how they looked, how they ought to look is 100% right.
Thanks, Ady.