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SpacemanDoug

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#1633656
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: original broadcast reconstruction project
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kineticsolace said:

I know the original broadcast version of Series 6 finale (eps 21 and 22) was 2 episodes together as a “film”, I should have it recorded on vhs and all intro credits are at front, nothing for second half. The vhs release for season 1 episodes 1-6 (https://buffy.fandom.com/wiki/The_Slayer_Pack) I believe has the 90 minute version with no credits on Harvest episode. I also have this series of PAL release (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Buffy-Vampire-Slayer-Complete-Seasons/dp/B005MX6Y6E)

If you have the uncut version of the season 6 finale that’d be fantastic

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#1603975
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LOST (2004-2010) -- ORIGINAL BROADCAST RESTORATION PROJECT (ON HOLD)
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DJPitaB said:

Also, I noticed that you made no mention of the LOST Pilot episode, which also originally aired as a two-hour “movie” version… Does a proper version of this already exist somewhere in 1080p?

Incorrect actually, the movie version of the pilot never made it to broadcast, it originally aired in two parts and has always been that way since

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#1603642
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Friday Night Lights: NBC captures for seasons 1 and 2
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Anyone have captures of the original NBC broadcasts for the first two seasons of this show? I already have the extended 101 Network captures for seasons 3-5 and was hoping I could get the first two seasons from the NBC run as well. Mostly because I want to make sure there are no music edits on the DVD and BD releases.

Please PM me if you have them.

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#1591014
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Info: Mono soundtracks that were butchered with 5.1 remixes in later releases
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The Decimator said:

Bruce Lee’s classic film Enter the Dragon is only available on DVD and Blu-Ray as part of an “extended version”. This version of the movie has different music cues in some scenes and most of the sound effects have been replaced.

The 4K release from last year that Warner Bros. themselves released has the original mono and remix options for both cuts and apparently they tinkered with the remix to more resemble the original

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#1587814
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Beavis and Butt-Head - Project Buffcoat (Dot Crawl Removal)
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towne32 said:

SpacemanDoug said:

towne32 said:

SpacemanDoug said:

One thing I will say is while it’s a shame the episodes aren’t completely uncensored (not Paramount+'s fault), they’re at least a lot better than the bastardized DVD episodes

MTV in general bastardized their catalog considering the state of the original Jackass series on Paramount+

Yeah, we are still discovering changes made to the Mike Judge Collection DVDs even in recent months. Part of it is revisionism, and part of it is going back to lower gen masters for that set (like Citizen Butt-Head, for example came out less censored). But their new releases just grab a random tape for an episode, clearly. Beware of the Butt is fully uncensored, and that tape was pulled from rotation after like two days in 1993.

Just to be clear, though, this project is fully uncensored.

I believe some of the censorships are permanent since apparently some episodes had their actual masters altered

It’s hard to say other than speculation. In some cases, probably. In other cases, like Citizen Butt-Head, clearly the master was not altered.

Doesn’t matter for the new streaming masters though, because those are all from broadcast tapes and not the upstream masters. Which is why we can have things like the Beware of the Butt “F UCKER” scene even though it only aired around twice in May 1993, and always censored after that. Or the voiceover on Give Blood’s credits, which was changed, etc.

I remember reading somewhere that Mike Judge once said he doesn’t even know if the early episodes in some cases even exist in their original form by now

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#1587810
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Beavis and Butt-Head - Project Buffcoat (Dot Crawl Removal)
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towne32 said:

SpacemanDoug said:

One thing I will say is while it’s a shame the episodes aren’t completely uncensored (not Paramount+'s fault), they’re at least a lot better than the bastardized DVD episodes

MTV in general bastardized their catalog considering the state of the original Jackass series on Paramount+

Yeah, we are still discovering changes made to the Mike Judge Collection DVDs even in recent months. Part of it is revisionism, and part of it is going back to lower gen masters for that set (like Citizen Butt-Head, for example came out less censored). But their new releases just grab a random tape for an episode, clearly. Beware of the Butt is fully uncensored, and that tape was pulled from rotation after like two days in 1993.

Just to be clear, though, this project is fully uncensored.

I believe some of the censorships are permanent since apparently some episodes had their actual masters altered

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#1583488
Topic
Say Anything - original theatrical stereo mix preservation
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The original stereo mix of this movie hasn’t been released since the pre-DVD days and apparently the 5.1 track has some changes in it. Namely added music during the after party scene when Lloyd walks Diane home, which originally played silent. It’s possible some other changes occurred but I’m not entirely sure about what they’d be.

If one does have a laserdisc or VHS of this movie, please contact me

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#1583026
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Napoleon Dynamite 35mm scan(V2.0 released)
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SpookyDollhouse said:

halypo said:

Really interested in the project, maybe even in contributing. Just one question first, is there something about the blu ray release that is wrong or messed up that you are trying to fix with this project. Or are you doing this just to do it, for the fun/educational process.

Really just curious, most of the projects I see here are trying to fix poor color timing or subsequent director/studio meddling. What’s your reason?

The current Blu is an ancient flat sharpened 2k master. A 35mm print scan is very welcome until Paramount releases the new 4k master.

Isn’t it with Fox in the US?

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#1581479
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Info/Help Wanted: Dracula (1931) with original ending?
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crissrudd4554 said:

By most accounts there aren’t any surviving prints of the film with the epilogue intact. What little has survived is not enough for a full restoration. This is why the epilogue is only shown in brief clips in the documentary on the DVD/BD.

In fact it was actually a miracle that the flower girl scene from Frankenstein was found fully intact, considering it was cut from the negative and destroyed soon after

What was used in the current restoration was from some print in the UK that happened to have it, it has noticeably worse quality than the rest of the movie and you can even see the quality shift in the next scene after it cuts back to the lower generation footage (idk what element they used for the rest of the movie)

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#1580103
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Info Wanted: Duel Aspect Ratio
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It works both ways, however the 4K has some issues with it

The theatrical cut being the shortened 2003 cut used since the DVD release, with various small trims throughout, but unlike before the mono mix this time was excluded as an option so you’re now stuck with the remix

The TV cut is also included in its first ever home video release but an SD source was used and it was AI sharpened really badly