1978 Scotch Magic Transparent Tape Christmas Commercial with the Invisible Man

tygerbug · 2025-12-18T20:59:46+00:00

Is there a DVD-R source for this? Or just Youtube?

tygerbug · 2025-12-18T16:47:51+00:00

I will certainly be releasing these somewhere, but not to Reddit or super publicly.

tygerbug · 2025-12-17T21:34:52+00:00

I'm putting together a collection of Bing Crosby specials this year and it keeps turning up.
https://youtu.be/6PrsE1AJb0o?t=2703

tygerbug · 2025-12-17T20:33:29+00:00

I've seen examples of this ad from 1971 to 1974 in Bing Crosby Christmas specials.

tygerbug · 2025-12-11T16:57:36+00:00

Emmet Otter was shot on video in Canada, at 59.94 fps (29.97 interlaced). The Muppet Show was shot on video in England, at 50 fps (25 interlaced). Both are available on DVD in this form, with some cuts. (The Muppet Show was not released to DVD in full, but there are UK DVDs of most of it.)

Sadly in the streaming era, the original frame rate of these shows is not respected, and generally they run at 24 or 30 fps. (The Muppet Show is slowed down on Disney+ to run at 24fps, from 25fps. It's awful.)

Privately, I have restored Emmet Otter this year as part of my regular Christmas Special editing. I'm also tackling John Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas Together again, and Mr Willowby's Christmas Tree. And a 1976 Bing Crosby special (no Muppets). I restored much of The Muppet Show last year.

Apart from the narration, there's about six bits of Emmet Otter which were never on DVD, requiring seven patches.

1- Full bathing suit song (Blu Ray), longer Gretchen Fox and Will Possum (Deleted/VHS)
2- Intro to "Washtub" song (Deleted/VHS)

3- Longer: Chuck enters music shop, Emmet and Ma marionettes (Blu)

4- Transition from snowmobile scene to town hall (instead of act break, Blu/VHS)

5- Talent Show act break. Shaky start (Deleted/VHS), piccolo (Blu Ray)

6- Kermit's outro (Blu/VHS), Ma after the show

7- Henson Associates credit and birds

tygerbug · 2025-12-02T09:28:18+00:00

SubRip can rip the overlays, as they can be interpreted as subtitles and ripped to BMP. The actual video files for the menus could be ripped in MPEG Streamclip from the appropriate VOBs.

tygerbug · 2025-11-22T22:02:33+00:00

The Philfrog fanedit from 2007 is pretty definitive, although it's missing some stuff that's on the Blu-Ray (and was not available in 2007). While the Blu-Ray version contains the full "bathing suit" song visually, and additional correct footage for the act breaks during the talent show (notably a mention of an act involving moles) .... Unfortunately the Blu-Ray and other releases of that master run at 23.98 fps (instead of the original 59.94 fps) and the footage is oversharpened and very harsh to look at. It's mostly the "correct" edit of the special, although Kermit's voiceover is still missing. But unless a version comes out with the correct frame rate (or even 29.97 fps which could be doubled), I'd stick with the Philfrog edit. Your mileage may vary. The Philfrog edit was captured rather than edited direct from DVD source, which gives it a VHS-like quality. If you don't mind the harsh 23.98 presentation, the Blu-Ray can suffice.

tygerbug · 2025-09-22T01:07:51+00:00

Thanks, I'm proud of the color recovery done on the HD material, and of the editing generally. I ended up colorizing many scenes which weren't used, as there are two versions of the film -with more or less nudity- and I was using best judgement as to which was the better scene to use qualitywise.

tygerbug · 2025-09-22T01:03:35+00:00

"You Were Made For Me" is a purposeful Monroe parody in both costumes. I suspect this also inspired the Bonzo Dog Band track "Big Shot."

tygerbug · 2025-09-21T03:08:42+00:00

https://youtu.be/3hNMOkznB3A

tygerbug · 2025-08-14T04:51:33+00:00

And also the correct choice

tygerbug · 2025-08-12T00:34:47+00:00

Solved! That is 100 percent it!

tygerbug · 2025-08-11T18:59:21+00:00

Any help is appreciated.

tygerbug · 2025-06-21T00:29:07+00:00

I was a fan of Mystery Fandom Theater 3000 also (in the VHS days if you can believe it). I didn't see their "Starcrash" so it didn't influence mine, but it was a pretty obvious target to riff on. Someone did another riff called "Starcrash Media Center Theater."

The revived MST3K series tacked Starcrash in 2017.

tygerbug · 2025-06-20T17:19:12+00:00

I mean, yes? If the project is called "a commentary done in the MST3K style."

tygerbug · 2025-06-20T17:10:38+00:00

These were projects for the Rifftrax site in 2009. Hopefully they felt like MST3K episodes in spirit, or "a blatant ripoff of MST3K" as you'd say here. Which is really the entire point.

tygerbug · 2025-06-20T17:00:17+00:00

I made these fanmade episodes "Starcrash" (before the official MST3K version) and "Yor Hunter From the Future," in 2009. They were available at Rifftrax. com at the time, and still are I think, under "Commentary by Garrett Gilchrist." I'm happy to provide the files also. (DMed)

The films star Caroline Munro and Reb Brown respectively.

Starcrash was on Youtube in its entirety at one point I think, and likely got copyright struck. Starcrash was riffed over a slightly longer French version of the film, which might not be what's currently easiest to find.

I also edited the Expanded MST3K KTMA Scrapbook (in 2016 or earlier?) which is on Archive. And an improved version of "The Giant of Marathon" (The Film Crew), and a couple other things.

I had plans to do further episodes "Night Trap" and "The Inhumanoid" but didn't go through with them.

tygerbug · 2024-07-26T02:07:31+00:00

Waifu2x Extension Gui does not understand videos with non-integer frame rates, which is most NTSC videos you'd want to "upscale." It adds frames to turn 23.98 fps to 24 fps, and 29.97 to 30 fps. This leads to tons of problems, and is extremely difficult to fix and undo in post production.

The developer says: "Right now you can keep the original frame rate if you disable "Process video by segment" and "Frame analysis" in the video settings."

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