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#217374
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Info & Help: Looking for... Raiders Of The Lost Ark - on HDTV
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/217374/action/topic#217374
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Have scenes actually been cut for time, or are there just abrupt jumps where commercial breaks weren't cleanly edited out? Because if the scenes are intact, you should be able to clean up the commercial cuts and sync up the DVD audio tracks with the HD video. It would be a shame if scenes have been edited down for commercials...
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#214815
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The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Director's Cut (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/214815/action/topic#214815
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Originally posted by: julianhoek

1- have you been in any contact with richard williams so he provide you with acurate input or even better, with original material, workprints or art?
2- i read that you allready did one edit of this movi like 6 years ago, was that part of some job or also like a proyect?
3- is it going to be a torrent to download the the movie in full quality with all the extras for hyper fans or you are planing to sell it ??
well, that's all for now. thaks!
sorry for the crappy english!
julian from argentina


I'm (obviously) not ocpmovie, but I know enough to answer all of your questions.

1) No, he has not had any direct contact with Richard Williams. He HAS had contact with Richard Williams's son Alex, who also worked on the film, as well as several other people who worked with him on the film. Some of them did provide him with new content. However, the copy of the workprint he used is a new version that showed up on emule recently.

2) His first version of the edit was a full screen (1.33:1) version that he did as a personal project.

3) The final cut has been torrented. I can't link to it, but it's available on The Pirate Bay. Go to the site and do a search for "Thief and the Cobbler". You'll find it. The tracker says that there is zero seeds, but that is incorrect. It is being seeded right now. Some of the bonus materials have also been torrented on Pirate Bay. Send OCP a PM (personal message) for more info on directly obtaining copies of the edit/extras.

OCP--

I received your care package a couple days ago, and was completely taken by surprise. I'm really anxious to check it out--as soon as the 30 pages worth of papers are written for my classes, I'm checking it out. THANK YOU!
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#213736
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Help: looking for... 'Back to the Future' TV broadcast from 1989 with Leslie Nielsen (BTTF II promo)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/213736/action/topic#213736
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I know this might be a little obscure, but I’m sure there’s a few compulsive tapers out there that might have this in their collection. The month before BTTF II came out in 1989, NBC did a promotional broadcast of BTTF I, with Leslie Nielsen doing an intro to it, doing some interstitial bits before commercials, and hosting a short documentary about the making-of after the movie ended. I used to have a tape of this, a long, long time ago that I watched as a little kid, but that has long since disappeared.

Does anybody happen to have this in their collection, and could I somehow get a copy of it?

You know, considering the popularity of the movies, it might be interesting to compile the documentaries and specials for the movies that didn’t make it onto the official discs…

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#212168
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Lord of the Rings - FOTR - The Book-Cut (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/212168/action/topic#212168
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Well the other problem is that what he thought was DVD compatible is in fact not. Secondly, the number of people downloading and watching his project on his computer, versus the number that are actually going to the trouble of making the files into DVD, is very high...not many are making DVDs. So its a very few people who are benefitting for all that extra file size.
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#212080
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Lord of the Rings - FOTR - The Book-Cut (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/212080/action/topic#212080
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ShiftEyes:

Yeah, I was looking at a couple tools on that site as well...namely Pulldown.exe with the PullDownBatchFE frontend. I think the tool you suggested is better.

Lord Phillock:

This kind of thing is why I'm a pretty firm believer in learning to do everything yourself. It takes a lot longer, but it avoids issues like this, and it makes life a lot easier on the people wishing to look at your stuff. In the future, I'd suggest either going with fullblown DVDs, or going the xvid/divx route, which would make the filesizes a lot more convenient.
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#212058
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Lord of the Rings - FOTR - The Book-Cut (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/212058/action/topic#212058
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Crap, I misread the original poster's comment. I was thinking that he was saying that it was a PAL-formatted DVD...I should have remembered the Phillock only uploaded MPEGs. So the MPEG is 23.976, and the framerate needs to be adjusted to 29.976...

Done a bit of reading...what the issue is, is 23.976 in itself is not DVD compliant. You can encode to 23.976 fps and have it work for DVD....BUT, when you encode, you have to activate 2:3 pulldown...you wind up interlaced video that is 23.976 fps, but when transferred to DVD, plays at 29.976 fps, because the frames within the video have been flagged to repeat in a certain order, so that it plays at 29.976.

It would appear that you did a straight conversion to 23.976, with no pulldown involved, so the video, as is, will not work in a DVD player. There is a program that can take a video running at 23.976 and do pulldown on it, but I need to do some more reading...
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#211592
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Until the end of the World: Director's Cut (* unfinished project *)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/211592/action/topic#211592
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I remember reading about this film a while ago, definitely very interested. Do you actually have copies of both the long and short films?

BTW, this is apparently coming out in the UK on June 26th, might be useful for the subtitles. No clue as to what cut it is:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000EHRUFW/qid%3D1147335334/202-6943819-8091823
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#211515
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Info & Help Wanted: for a 9/11 News Footage Preservation Project...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/211515/action/topic#211515
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You're right about it being an immensely traumatic experience--again, I can't imagine what it was like, but I've seen many people who lived through 9/11 (and also the invasion of Normandy, in the case of Saving Private Ryan) say that they couldn't handle watching footage of it, simply because it was an experience that was incredibly traumatic and horrifying. To be there when something like that happens...that would definitely change you. Those sorts of emotions are incredibly delicate, and that's why I mentioned above that I was so gratified that several people that had gone through it were actually interested in seeing this little project--it actually caught me by surprise.

As far as the use of the phrase "hide away," I was specifically referring to hiding away the evidence of what happened (i.e. video, etc). I have a feeling that many people have tapes of national or local newcasts of what happened, but don't want to make themselves known because they feel odd about it (see Zombie84's post for an example of this), maybe ghoulish in some way, or they think that that footage should just be allowed to fade away. I just don't think that should be the case, but I'm trying very hard to be respectful to people that lived through 9/11. In fact, if you look at the thread I have about this in the Myspleen forums, somebody (apparently joking) said that their mother died in 9/11, how dare I do this, etc, and I pretty much went into full retreat, until they admitted the joke.

So please be aware that I have nothing but sympathy for the people who were in NYC on that day, or who lost family/friends in the attacks.