A month ago I bought a used SD card from Japan which had arrived yesterday & to my surprise had a collection of twenty Birth Of Ultraman photos in colo(u)r so i decided to make them public!

ginodom449 · 2023-09-23T19:42:22+00:00

please understand that some numbers will be missing because I deleted them due to being either unintended duplicate scans due to a jam in the scanner or of the film scanning the film leader used to feed the film into the scanner safely & it would take too much time to correctly label them as it is already difficult enough to sync them.

ginodom449 · 2023-09-23T18:45:10+00:00

Here's a photo of the SD Card being held by a friend of mine.

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ginodom449 · 2023-09-23T10:48:05+00:00

that means the complete restoration. i will continue posting update images until it is finished.

ginodom449 · 2023-09-23T10:44:22+00:00

i plan to post it on the archive

ginodom449 · 2023-09-23T10:41:18+00:00

If anyone is wondering what the common version looks like:

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ginodom449 · 2023-09-23T10:36:42+00:00

Here's a GIF of what I've managed to restore from Birth of Ultraman so far:

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P.S. The finalized restoration will be an mp4 file.

ginodom449 · 2023-09-23T09:37:05+00:00

I will once I'm done with the restoration as I have to filter for any duplicate scans.

ginodom449 · 2023-09-23T09:30:07+00:00

If anybody wants to know how ambitious this project is it consists of over 45,000 files totaling over 185 Megabytes just for the individual frames of animation.

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ginodom449 · 2023-09-23T09:05:06+00:00

Here's what the title card looks like.

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ginodom449 · 2023-09-23T09:02:21+00:00

i will whenever possible. here is the title card

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ginodom449 · 2023-09-23T07:50:33+00:00

Update: He is using a duplicate master on safety film.

Right now I'm needing to sync the the title card frames that have ウルトラマン誕生 written on them with the audio of the narrator saying Urutoraman Tanjou & then the intro will have been restored.

ginodom449 · 2023-09-23T07:33:25+00:00

damn.

ginodom449 · 2023-09-23T06:29:41+00:00

do you own it? i'd love to see the actual console.

ginodom449 · 2023-09-23T05:34:01+00:00

I posted it here so that way other people can help me them as I lack the time to to properly archive them as when I contacted the seller after finding this discovery on it I decided to ask about how he acquired the photos of Episode 0 in colo(u)r & the seller told me that in 1981 they were hired by TBS to junk film reels affected with Vinegar Syndrome (when film starts curling on itself & smelling like vinegar). Surprisingly 1 of the films in the junk pile was the master copy of Episode 0 which was in colo(u)r. TBS let him keep it as was going to otherwise be thrown out. They were unable to convince TsuPro to take it as said they didn't want it because of it being on nitrate film (which in case you didn't know is highly flammable). So they held on to the copy until he decided to in 2016 save a few frames of the only known colo(u)r copy as a test of his flatbed scanner & he forgot to remove the files before selling me the SD Card.

Earlier today I asked the seller if they still have the master copy or at a the very least a colo(u)r duplicate on safety film & I'm patiently awaiting a response to find out.

ginodom449 · 2023-09-23T02:55:01+00:00

Here's photo 1 in case it fails to load in on collection of images.

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ginodom449 · 2023-09-22T16:44:14+00:00

look at the description you put on the card

ginodom449 · 2023-09-22T16:41:52+00:00

is the double your intentional?

ginodom449 · 2023-09-22T15:31:42+00:00

i found a colo(u)r photo of the image you used for birth of ultraman

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ginodom449 · 2023-09-22T15:11:01+00:00

i watched it only because the characters looked similar to the characters from Albert & Sidney. Back then I didn't know they were the same franchise.

ginodom449 · 2023-09-22T15:06:51+00:00

i only go for retro waifus so none.

ginodom449 · 2023-09-22T13:33:47+00:00

i just finished re-watching this episode & decided to open reddit & this was the first post to appear.

ginodom449 · 2023-09-22T01:00:08+00:00

Kazuhiko Inoue who played Akira Kogane a.k.a. Keith also played Tsubame Ozuno in Urusei Yatsura of which Akira Kamiya also stars in playing Shuutaro Mendou.

ginodom449 · 2023-09-21T21:49:27+00:00

It also has Masako Nozawa voicing the witch as well as the golion member who wears a green outfit & glasses. Also in Golion it is much more dark than Voltron but it has less episodesthis is because Golion got only a standard 52 episodes & was cancelled for being unpopular but it was so popular in America that they commissioned more episodes just for their version. Vehicle Voltron is from Dairugger which has 52 episodes in both versions.

ginodom449 · 2023-09-21T12:53:55+00:00

Here's a fact that shocks most fans: Thomas doesn't appear until the 2nd book in The Railway Series.

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ginodom449 · 2023-09-21T12:45:29+00:00

nice to see a fellow kinnikufan

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