2015-03-21, 02:34 AM
(This post was last modified: 2015-03-21, 02:42 AM by TServo2049.)
(2015-02-07, 05:18 PM)CSchmidlapp Wrote: The 35mm stills in the OP are interesting. Is there a 'bootleg' CAM from back in the day floating around that would have been a capture of a 35mm showing?
I don't condone such things, but outside of a 35mm showing somewhere, it maybe our only way of getting to the bottom of it.
"Speak of the devil, and he shall appear!"
I actually decided to look them up on Usenet search engines and see if I could find some old postings from before the DVD release. I ran into some NZBs that were missing pieces and couldn't be repaired, as well as some that gave me errors that download failed and the files might be outside of my newsreader's retention period. (These were ~2400 days old, which is basically my provider's maximum retention.)
But miraculously, I was able to successfully get both a full-size IMG file of the studio screener (not just a compressed rip), and both halves of a German camrip (anybody remember when these things would be compressed and split to fit onto two CDs?). I didn't find a DVD-sized version of the camrip anywhere, not even any dead torrents or incomplete NZBs of one, but I'm lucky to have even gotten both halves of this version, so I can't complain. These things may have been weeks away from being unrecoverable. (Who would have ever thought old bootlegs would become archaeological artifacts?)
So we now have two different, complete pre-home-release versions. CSchmidlapp, I know you said you were taking a break, but if you're interested in them...