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Topic: Ken Film's "Empire Strikes Back" digest
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Maurizio Di Cintio
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 977
From: Ortona, Italy
Registered: Jan 2004
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posted October 23, 2004 12:30 PM
Hi all.
I've recently purchased a German version, licensed by Ken Films, of this digest. Surprisingly there is no scene where Darth Vader cuts away Luke's hand during the final duel, though there are some excerpts thereof AND, at some point, you see Luke's arm cut at the wrist!
As this print has been heavily tampered with, and several scenes have been edited on a separate reel, I am wondering how is it that this digest, otherwise excellently abridged, has been edited so coarsely right at the topical point. Might it be the previous owner just deleted this scene? Is even a small hint suggesting the cut present in your prints? Or is this the way it should be?
Thanks for any info.
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Maurizio
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Michael De Angelis
Phenomenal Film Handler
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Registered: Jul 2003
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posted October 24, 2004 01:35 PM
Hello to all,
Indeed there are many gaps in the 2nd half of the 400' release of Empire,
and what is most questionable is, what happened to Han Solo?
I was not aware of a Marketing release of this film? Does any part of the Marketing version fill in the gaps missing in the Ken release versions?
Speaking about abridgements and cutdowns, is that a toy company named Kenner, sold clips of Star Wars in a picture viewer which you would hold up to the light and hand crank to watch the action. It contained brief color clips on Super 8 film. If I recall, it had Obi Wan and Darth Vader battling with Lasers, Tie Fighters and The Death Star finale all on about 25 - 50 feet of film.
The Second 400' part of Star Wars was released by Ken with the Cantina Scene and the Death Star Battle.
This was good, but very confusing.
Also, years later I had learned that a Scope version of a 400' Star Wars was released in Germany. What's that all about?
Best,
Michael
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Maurizio Di Cintio
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 977
From: Ortona, Italy
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posted October 24, 2004 02:03 PM
Yeas, Andreas, I forgot about the fate of Han Solo: his burying in the carbon is very important, and it's missing too in this digest.
I guess the cut down I have just received was struck from the same negative as the Ken film release.
That was licensed in Italy too, under the label "IE International", and - yes - it wws 3 x 45 meters. From which you can understand it was shorter than the original Ken Films release. MOreover the Italian version is not more tightly edited: it just covers the 3/4ths of other versions, so the last ca. 8 minutes of the digest were never printed in Italy, do not know why. The "Star Wars" digest was broken down into four parts instead but I've never seen it.
Anyway the Italian print by IE International should be avoided: the scenes on the snow are almost completely washed out - all white, perhaps due to some sort of underexposure. The master material used here is dirty with white sparks and hairs etc.
The German version is much better, although mine suffers from a slight reddish cast on the second 400 footer.
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Maurizio
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upps - hope these are the right english words - ) That is, what I remember. I think some more but I do not remember the other Ken scenes.
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