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Hi everyone, I am big laserdisc audio girl and I see this forum has LOTS of it. I also just love media in general so I'm happy to be here

Hey all, do we have these?
The new kino disc has a revised sound mix

https://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=140419

Howdy I watch a lot of obscure foreign stuff and hope to get some use from these forums.

David Lynch's Blue Velvet was prepared for broadcast television for Dino De Laurentiis by the film's assistant editor and future full-time Lynch collaborator/ex-wife Mary Sweeney. Sweeney used cuts, video zooms and alternate footage to make things well, softer (than satin). She also brought back on Dennis Hopper to sanitize his expletive-filled speech (presumably Dean Stockwell for a single line as well), and the rest is history. Full interview with Sweeney from August 21, 1987:
https://www.upi.com/Archives/1987/08/21/...556516800/

When all was said and done, it ran only a minute shorter than Lynch and Dunham's 2-hour theatrical cut. I don't think it really ended up receiving much, if any domestic airplay stateside ("Blue Velvet" is hard to crawl for on newspaper repositories), but it made it to international markets, airing on May 29, 1991 on Channel Ten in Brisbane, Australia, for instance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=693q3FnBtLo&t=10s

I believe these highlights of Hopper's dialogue from the TV version are from a PAL source, likely of Australian origin, as these clips are 25fps: https://www.youtube.com/@sonnyhammond6671/videos

This version I feel is important to have represented and preserved. The presence of alternate visual material is intriguing. It was also the basis for Dennis Hopper's appearance on SNL, where he spewed the same absurd, network-friendly language in reprising his role as Frank Booth: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xrfiu3

I've searched and have had help with searching to no avail. Any help in locating or obtaining this version would be greatly appreciated.

If it is located, I would like to do a few things:

1. Preserve the original source in the best quality possible. If it's an original videocassette source, I have a reliable contact who does lossless captures of analog media, so that's no problem.
   
2. Reconstruct the TV edit in its intended AR (pan and scan 4:3) in slightly better quality, using the original U.S. Lorimar Video LD release for the baseline theatrical cut footage, which I've confirmed from the YouTube clips is the same base P&S telecine used to construct the TV version.
   
3. Present the edited soundtrack conformed as an alternate audio option for the uncut theatrical version. This would be an extremely easy and seamless task, given that either of Blue Velvet's surround remixes are totally voiceless beyond the center channel.
   

Big fan of fan cuts!

I recently found out about Meaning of Life having a 4k UHD release. I researched to see what bonus features are there versus my old DVD and found there was only one new extra.

What really got me down (Mrs. Brown) is discovering that there is no Director's Cut of the movie included. 4k or 1080p even.

Has anyone been considering reconstructing this?
I haven't done any edits like this in a long time and 4k/HDR source material is, at the moment, outside of my skill set. (Things seem hard or tough.)

I just haven't had this kind of free time in years (And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft.)

In the end, I just don't have interest in getting a 4k disc that's going backwards to the theatrical cut. I'm sick of studios doing this: upgrade the quality and downgrade the cut. (And you feel that you've had quite enough....)

Does anybody happen to have this laserdisc on them?

https://www.lddb.com/laserdisc/05476/418...d-Confused

If so, can you rip the audio and send it to me so I could sync the original Dolby Surround track to the Criterion UHD? Thank you.

Hi everybody! My name's Nic. Glad to be here!