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Replicant Sasquatch said:
I still have my VHS copies of the last home release of the pre-Special Edition Star Wars trilogy. You know, that box featuring the veiled threat from Lucas about things to come?

I wish they would just release digital copies of those movies. The new Blue Ray versions look really good but they still have those fucking autistic edits to them which I hate.
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Try Harmy's Despecialized Edition, a fan reconstruction of the original trilogy as it was originally shown, using HD sources. Like most fanedits, you have to jump through annoying hoops to get the movie files, but if you don't mind watching a lower grade HD version of the trilogy, you can find it at A.R. Chive's Video Store.

Star Wars
Empire Strikes Back
Return of the Jedi.

Watch the Matroshka version, as the mp4 versions have a lower file size and lots of artifacting during action scenes.

I've been looking for this weird ass sex ed cartoon I had seen as a kid that might've been made by a French studio, by the look of it it must've been from somewhere around the '70s or '80s. I don't remember much of it, but I think it involved a granny going though a family photo album with her roughly 8 year old nephew and niece, with the occasional picture of the children completely nude triggering the old hag into telling stories about how sex works. The tales of procreation were full of cartoon bears playing each others' junk (don't worry, no homo, all True and Honest Straight cartoon bears). It was also full of really tightfisted metaphors, like penetration and ejaculation being show through artillery cannons sticking out of mountains thorugh weirdly vaginal creaks and firing their loads into the ocean.
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It sounds like the weird sex ed cartoon that the Red Letter Media gang reviewed on Wheel of the Worst #3. It looked like something a bunch of hippies put together to try to demystify sex so that kids wouldn't be scared of it, but it just seemed wildly inappropriate. To be fair, I can't think of any way to explain sex to kids that wouldn't be horribly awkward and traumatizing to at least some of them.

I admit, I have a morbid interest in listening to Timothy Treadwell's "Grizzly Man" death tape, if only because I think there would be value in playing it for reality-challenged idiots who have a romantic view of Nature, and who believe they can faff about within it however they want to and not die a horrible death. Same thing with the Crocodile Hunter death tape. Stay the hell away from things with sharp claws and horns and you won't get killed!
 
Francis E. Dec Esc. said:
I'd like to see the original eight hour long cut of Erich von Stroheim's Greed.
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TCM did a 4 hour reconstruction of the 8 hour cut of Greed back in 1999, which restores the cut material as stills and text pieces. It airs on TCM every so often but has never had a DVD release (nor has the heavily cut version).

Also, part of me wants to get my hands on Eagle Riders (the butchered adaptation of Gatchaman II and Gatchaman Fighters with Bryan Cranston doing the voice of one of the main heroes).
 
tehpope said:
Disney is working on those. But I think the rights to Ep. IV is holding it up. That one is partially owned by Fox and the mouse doesn't want them to have any profits from it. We'll probably see it soon enough after they buy Fox.

Also laserdisc is slightly better in quality. But there are a ton of fan recreations of ep. IV-VI out there. Ep. IV even has a 35mm transfer out there.
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The chief issue preventing the proper release for the non-Special Edition versions of the OG Star Wars trilogy remains George Lucas. He had the foresight to include a clause in the sale of the franchise to Disney that they are LEGALLY BOUND to treat the Special Editions as the only version of the OG Trilogy for sale on home media, theater distribution, streaming, TV broadcast, digital download, etc. ANY release of the non-Special Editions (such as a one night only theatrical airing of a non-Special Edition of A New Hope that Disney arranged with help from someone who had an original non-Special Edition version of it Disney arranged for charity) has to be approved by Lucas and IIRC the only reason he approved of that one-off screening was due to it being for charity and the fact that Disney managed to hide the fact that they were showing a non-Special Edition edition from people buying the tickets for the event until they got into the theater and saw onscreen they were seeing the non-SE version.
 
Frank D'arbo said:
Alright so I didn't live in Canada but I lived in Washington State where we got CBC, and as a kid for whatever reason I preferred Sesame Park over Sesame Street.
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When I was a little kid, it was still Canadian Sesame Street which was around 66% American Sesame Street including the main "Street" segments with the humans and Muppets and 33% original Canadian content especially with segments teaching French words replacing the Spanish segments from the United States.


I think CBC added original segments with the Canadian Muppets starting around 1985-ish if I remember correctly, and a decade later, CBC shortened it to half-an-hour and officially renamed it Sesame Park in 1996.


I don't think I've actually ever watched a full episode of Sesame Park due to my already being in college in 1996.

I already noted earlier in this very thread that I've been wanting to see the very trippy "Nanabush" ("Nanabozho") animated segments featuring the Ojibwe trickster spirit but, even three-plus years later, I still can't find them online.
 
There's been so many videos deleted from Youtube in the last few years. Clips from TV shows, personal videos., reuploads of other people who've taken down their accounts. Some of that stuff will never be back. Many old lolcow threads now lead to a broken youtube link. I wonder if it was a bot.
 
I think I've talked about this in another thread but the majority of season one and half of season two of Callan, an excellent '60s British spy show, are likely forever gone. It's largely due to the old practices of tapes being overwritten or thrown out after a while. Unless someone finds a box of old personal recordings of the show in their grandfather's attic I doubt we'll ever see the missing episodes.

There is a group called Talking Pictures TV that specifically try to locate lost episodes and movies, so maybe one day something might turn up.
 
MirrorNoir said:
TCM did a 4 hour reconstruction of the 8 hour cut of Greed back in 1999, which restores the cut material as stills and text pieces. It airs on TCM every so often but has never had a DVD release (nor has the heavily cut version).
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One film I discovered a while back, an "homage" to film serials produced by a group of amateur movie buffs and historians was the 1966 hour long "Captain Celluloid vs. the Film Pirates" (shot a silent pic with interstitial cards, since recording dialog would have been costly) which centers around the discovery of the complete, uncut negative of Greed, Movie fans around the world are excited by this, but then the negative is hijacked by the Film Pirates while being transported to a museum. Their leader, the masked Master Duper has a device, the Instant Transmission Printer, that can create physical copies of films in just a few minutes.
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It can't fail, and being on the board of the Association of Film Distributors allows him to have inside information, but not so fast for another member of the association. a mild-mannered film archivist by day, is secretly the hero Captain Celluloid.

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An interview Jon Pertwee did with William Shatner ( sometime between the first Teo Trek films ) used to be on YouTube but appears to have disappeared entirely.

Wasn't very long , maybe 10 mins. Cool to see two TV legends having a chat.
 
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Tim Burton's Hansel & Gretel

1983; Tim Burton's first Directorial effort for Disney Channel; I was the Audio Sweetening Mixer.
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In 2021, William Gazecki, a sound mixing for Tim Burton's short Hansel and Gretel, uploaded a better quality version of the short with less crappy audio.

It costed $116,000 to make, was filmed on 16mm film, features East-Asian-American actors, stop motion, Japanese toys, piano music done by Johnny Costa (Mister Rogers' fame), kung fu and a creepy-ass gingerbread man with a fetish for being eaten alive.

...This short is weird as fuck.

It only aired once on the Disney Channel on October 31, 1983, at 10:30 P.M. It aired along paired Tim Burton's other short Vincent and had an introduction with Vincent Price during it's original airing.
(which sadly, wasn't included in leaked VHS recordings of the short.)
 
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