On December 9, 1965, A Charlie Brown Christmas debuted on CBS, quickly becoming a beloved holiday tradition for millions.

However, during its creation, the production faced a tight deadline and skepticism from network executives, forcing the team to rush the special to completion.

A year later, the creators revisited the project to fine-tune details they felt could be improved, and that updated version went on to air/be released as the final, definitive version of the special.

Quoted from the book A Charlie Brown Christmas: The Making of a Tradition:

"When we saw the finished show, we thought we had killed it. It had so many warts and bumps and lumps and things. A year later we fixed up a few things, but we never completely recreated the show. The inconsistencies and little problems seem to make it even more endearing to a lot of people, and Sparky never wanted to change it."

Due to this, there has never been a proper restoration of this 1965 version of the special, which includes things such as:

- The Coca-Cola sponsorships.
- Non-revised scenes.
- Animation errors.

I have taken upon the opportunity to restore this version of the special using multiple sources, along with adding additional content to the special, such as:

- Special features (Includes A Christmas Miracle: The Making of A Charlie Brown Christmas, the original promotional ad restored by Cole Walker, the 1991 Shell promo, animation cels, the Christmas Tales ABC promo screener tape, and the Analogue Productions UHQR vinyl, which is the highest quality source of the soundtrack, as it's derived from the master tapes.)
- A brand new color correction to the 4K Blu Ray's, using publicly released animation cels as color reference, and color corrections and restorations of the 16mm film scan for removed scenes.
- Brand new custom subtitles using the Peanuts font and typography, cross referenced by Schultz's comics to better reflect character personality and delivery.

The video sources include:
- 2 separate 4K Blu-Ray uploads.
- 16mm scan by Thunderbean (for all other removed scenes)
- Garrett Gilchrist's restoration's of the removed Coca-Cola opening and credits (provided on his Patreon)

For audio, the only track that will be provided with this release is the 16mm optical audio (from Thunderbean's release.)

PM me for a copy.

I just decided to join this forum to learn more about fan restorations and the work that goes into them.

Greetings from Mexico!

I'm building a database collection of syncs/captures for laserdisc, VHS, and DVD, as well as some miscellaneous stuff. PM for downloads or to share your syncs/captures. Downloads will be provided via Resilio Sync keys.

LASERDISC

101 Dalmatians (1961)
2001: A Space Oddyssey (1968)
A Goofy Movie (1995)
Akira (1988)
Aladdin (1992)
Aladdin and the King of Thieves (1996)
Alice in Wonderland (1951)
Alien (1979)
American Graffiti (1973)
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
Back to the Future (1985)
Back to the Future Part II (1989)
Back to the Future Part III (1990)
Barbarella (1968)
Beauty and the Beast (1993)
Beetlejuice (1988)
Ben-Hur (1959)
Blade Runner (1982)
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Brides of Dracula (1960)
Carrie (1976)
Chinatown (1974)
Conan the Barbarian (1982)
Deliverance (1972)
Deliverance (1972)
Die Hard (1988)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Dr. No (1962)
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
Dracula (1930)
DuckTales The Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp (1990)
Dumbo (1941)
E.T. (1982)
Earth Vs The Flying Saucers (1956)
Fantasia (1940)
Frankenstein (1931)
Frankenstein Created Woman (1967)
Frankenstein Vs Baragon (1992)
Fury (1936)
Ghostbusters (1984)
Godzilla vs Gigan (1972) / Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla (1974) DF
Godzilla vs Monster Zero (1965)
Godzilla Vs The Smog Monster (1971) / Monsters From A Prehistoric Planet (1967) DF
Hercules (1997)
His Girl Friday (1940)
How The Grinch Stole Christmas (1966)
In The Mouth of Madness (1994)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1982)
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Jason and the Argonauts (1963) + Music & Effects track
Jurassic Park (1993)
Jurassic Park: The Lost World (1997)
King Kong (1933)
King Kong Lives (1986)
King Kong vs Godzilla (1962)
Klute (1971)
Letter From An Unknown Woman (1948)
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939)
Mrs. Miniver (1942)
North By Northwest (1959)
Oliver & Company (1988)
On The Waterfront (1954)
Once Upon a Time In The West (1968)
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Pinocchio (1940)
Point Blank (1967)
Revenge of the Creature (1955)
Rope (1948)
Se7en (1995)
Singin' In The Rain (1952)
Space Jam (1996)
Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr Toad
The Apartment (1960)
The Best Years Of Out Lives (1946)
The Big Sleep (1946)
The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957)
The Creature Walks Among Us (1956)
The Graduate (1967)
The Great Escape (1963)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)
The Hustler (1961)
The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
The Lady Vanishes (1938)
The Last Days Of Planet Earth (1974)
The Lion King (1994)
The Little Mermaid (1989)
The Mummy (1932)
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
The Return of Jafar (1994)
The Rugrats Movie (1998)
The Seventh Seal (1957)
The Terminator (1984)
The Spirit of the Beehive (1973)
The Thing From Another World (1951)
The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
The Train (1964)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
The Wolfman (1941)
Them! (1954)
Titanic
Toy Story (1995)
Wallace & Gromit (First 3 Shorts)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)

VHS HIFI

A Bug's Life (1998)
A Goofy Movie (1995)
An American Tail (1988)
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (1991)
Aladdin (1992)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Dune (1984)
Harry Potter & The Sorcerer's Stone (2001)
Irma La Douce (1963)
Monster's Inc. (2001)
The Brave Little Toaster (1987)
The Hobbit (1977)
The Land Before Time (1988)
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
The Treasure of Sierra Madre (1948)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)

DVD

Alien (1979)
Blazing Saddles (1973)
Cries and Whispers (1972)
Dekalog (1989)
Dune (1984)
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Ghost in the Shell (1995)
Ghostbusters (1984)
Ghostbusters II (1989)
Godzilla vs Megalon (1973)
Goldeneye (1995)
House (1977)
Lupin III The Fuma Conspiracy (1987)
Mothra Vs Godzilla (1964)
Mothra Vs Godzilla (1964)
Network (1976)
Puss N Boots (1969)
Raging Bull (1980)
Rear Window (1954)
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
S.L.C Punk (1998)
Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)
Spellbound (1945)
Summer Interlude (1951)
The 400 Blows (1959)
The King of Comedy (1982)
The Leopard Man (1943)
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
The Seventh Seal (1957)
The Shining (1980)
To Be or Not To Be (1942)
Tokyo Story (1953)
Vertigo (1958)
Watership Down (1978)
Wild Strawberries (1957)
Winter Light (1963)

MISC

A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965) Shell VHS to BD
Eraserhead (1977) Channel 5, Original mono VHS, FPS-corrected to 23.976
Rush Hour 2 (2001) DVD DTS-ES 6.1 Remix [Unsynced]
Scarface (1983) - 5.1 4-Track Stereo Mix (AE DVD DTS) [+83 ms to sync to 4K]
Seven Samurai (1954) BFI Player to Criterion BD
Suspicion (1941) BBC iPlayer to Warner BD
The Blue Angel (1930) MoC DVD
The Gold Rush DVD (1925) MK2 [eng] Piano Score
Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970) Warner Classics DVD

Was looking for fan edits of a couple of movies, ended up here. You folks have no idea how excited I am to be here. Thanks to all the hard working people who are making these fan restorations.

So glad I found this amazing community, thank you all for your great work.

Hi!!! I’m a Ukranian fan of horroror and thrillers, especially passionate about all those special / uncut / DC and so on, that hard to find. Glad to join the Fanrestore!  

Hi
Went through Soundman's impressive list and wanted to add some tracks that I didn't see in his list. Sorry if these are duplicates to other releases.

Bit depth : 16 bits
Sampling rate : 44.1 kHz

Airplane! (1980)
Ben-Hur.(1959)
Carrie (1976)
E.T..the.Extra-Terrestrial.(1982)
Evil Dead II (1987)
Glory (1989)
Thelma.and.Louise.(1991)
To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)
Under Siege (1992)

I'm looking for Top Gun LD PCM and Timecop LD audios. I've heard these both sound excellent!

Hello everyone!  My name is Justin and I just came across this amazing forum.  I've been into movies and home theater related gear since the mid/late 90's.  I worked at a movie theater as a teenager just to watch all the movies I could.  I've built my first home theater in late 1997.  I was a very early adopter of DVD and bought my first player the Toshiba SD-3600.  I now have a large collection of 4K UHD and have been bitten by the Laserdisc bug.  I bought a used Denon AVR-5803a and a Pioneer Elite CLD-79 to enjoy some of the original AC-3 and DTS Laserdisc releases.  I had thought about synching the laserdisc audio with several of my current 4K UHD titles and then I found this forum.

Needless to say, I look forward to looking through the discussions here and learning how to do my own syncs and contribute.  It's going to be a long 60 days waiting to PM some of you.  But I look forward to posting.

Aliens.1986.TC.DVD.Regrade.and.Upscale.2160p.SDR.HEVC.LD.PCM.2.0.v1.0 (Color Experiment #2)

This is also an experimental regrade similar to The Matrix. Just more of me testing different regrading techniques.

Quad DVD/BD/Regraded BD (1080p-SDR)
https://imgur.com/Uxk87LW
https://imgur.com/NXCsdDj
Also not 100% yet, still some artifacts, but its slowly getting there as I work out the bugs. Some more examples:

Original BD/Regraded BD (1080p-SDR)
https://imgur.com/ofHNtR8
Since I've done many Aliens project I added the standard fixes to the "fixes". Putting the knife marks back in, the fingerprints, the incorrect gun/flamethrower order and the bishop hole.

Video:
The BD regraded to the Quad DVD (with a slight adjustment) with parts patched from older HDTV broadcast (cleaned of dirt) to restore the movie before "fixes". That video was then upscaled to 2160p resolution.

Audio:
PCM 2.0 Dolby Surround (from the P&S LD 2.0)
FLAC 5.1 (upmix of the P&S LD 2.0)
PCM 2.0 Dolby Surround (from the THX LD 2.0)
Dolby Digital 5.1 (from the THX LD)
Dolby Digital 5.1 (from the Quad DVD)
Dolby Digital 4.1 (from the BD)
DTS-HD MA 5.1 (from the BD)
Dolby Digital 2.0 (Commentary  by James Cameron, Gale Anne Hurd, Stan Winston, Robert Skotak, Dennis Skotak, Pat McClung Michael Biehn, Lance Henriksen, Bill Paxton, Jenette Goldstein, Carrie Henn and Christopher Henn - from the BD)
Dolby Digital 5.1 (Final Theatrical Isolated score - from the BD)
Dolby Digital 5.1 (Alternative Score - from the BD)

Sync and Size:
Synced to the original BD

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