[Help] Pokemon The First Movie-US Theatrical Version HD Reconstruction

[Weskerredfield3]

Hey Everyone, 

I Am in the Progress of doing an HD Reconstruction of the US Theatrical version of Pokemon The First Movie; As according to the WB DVD Release. It is the Only release that i know of that includes the Full Theatrical Version of the film, Having Pikachu's Vacation before the Film. However, that DVD is in 4:3 Full screen and not in the proper Widescreen aspect ratio. The US Blu-Ray from Viz has the proper aspect ratio for the Movie, but it does not have Pikachu's Vacation. So, I decided to do a reconstruction of the Full US Theatrical Cut using the Video From the Viz Release, With SD inserts from the DVD when necessary mainly for the Pikachu's Vacation short due to there not being an existence of an HD Version of the Short to my knowledge. The only thing I am replacing is the Kids WB, Nintendo and 4kids Logos that appear before the start of the Movie, Since those don't have any HD Versions; Those will be replaced with the Period appropriate WB Logo.

Now, The Biggest question i have is the Aspect Ratio for Pikachu's Vacation. Was it animated in Widescreen, Or was it Animated in 4:3 and Cropped to Widescreen when it was shown Theatrically? I Want this to be as Theatrically accurate as i can make it except for the Logos as i mentioned.

I also do want to add the Dolby Digital 5.1 Track that was on WB's DVD, but Syncing audio is not my expertise. 

Any Help/Advice would be appreciated

[stwd4nder2]

Is the rest of the movie 4:3 open matte or cropped/P&S? I'd assume the short would be the same.

[Falcon]

If I can help you with this project, I think I have made quite a bit of progress in a similar project, and currently I have:


-Pikachu's Vacation (from BD Jap "Pikachu Short Movie", I know exist an Australian BD, maybe with English credits instead of Japanese)

-Narrative part of the expedition into the jungle X (when they find Mew's DNA) who started before the WB logo on theaters/VHS/DVD (isolated from "Mewtwo Origins" on the Japanese blu-ray.)

-The movie (maybe I can call it "4kids-Warner internationnal cut" or just "mewtwo strikes back") from the German Blu-Ray.



I was only 10 years old when I saw it, but Pikachu's Vacation was 4:3 on theaters.
I was surprised that the format was "like on TV".
When "mewtwo strikes back" starts, it goes to widescreen (1.78 or 1.85)


To complete my project, I was missing 3 things:
-Mini-DVD US/Canada of the movie (contains the French Canadian dubbing)
-Kids WB, Nintendo and 4kids Logos in HD (but I can upscale it with topaz, with logo from the WB DVD of Pokemon 2000)
-The introduction of Professor Oak which only exists on VHS to my knowledge.
This is purely nostalgic for VHS, because this introduction was not in theaters.


I synchronized all the audio from my PAL DVD (English, French, Portuguese, Dutch, commentary).
If anyone has this mini DVD ( https://www.amazon.fr/Pokemon-First-Movi...B0009298T8 ), I would be more motivate to sync audio

PM me if you want.

[Serums]

The Australian blu-ray definitely has Pikachu's vacation but I'm unable to confirm the language of the credits either.