How much footage have you seen?

[Canyon]

When the Indiana Jones trilogy was released on DVD, I was thrilled as I saw some great footage from the making of three movies!!!

As I have been an Indy fan for quite some time I have not only been lucky enough to own a copy of The Making of Raiders, but I also have a documentary on tape which shows how many scenes from Last Crusade were filmed! The most interesting thing about these documentaries is each of them have a few cut scenes in each!

Has anyone seen these tapes/programmes?

Firstly, with regards to Raiders, there are several very interesting parts which show:
* Filming in La Rochelle and the submarine scene
* On location in Tunisia
* (Cairo street scenes AND the cut scene where Indy fights with the Arab Swordsman!!!)
* The kiss between Indy and Marion!!!
* A cut scene between Sallah and a German Soldier
* Scenes showing the tank chase sequence
* Marion and Indy tied up (with alternative dialogue) Hilarious!

Regarding Last Crusade:

* Indy stepping out of an elevator at Donovan's place (cut scene)
* The Portguese Coast
* Castle brunwald
* Tank chase sequence
* Indy and his father arriving at Iskenderun Train Station

I would be very much interested finding out if anyone else has seen these documentaries, or indeed any of this footage. ;)

[Ayrun]

Ah.. man... I wish I'd seen all that stuff… but unfortunately I haven't. :(

[LaoChe]

Hey Canyon, what are the odds that you'd make a copy and send it my way? I'd buy the tape of course...

[Canyon]

Originally posted by LaoChe
Hey Canyon, what are the odds that you'd make a copy and send it my way? I'd buy the tape of course...

Believe me, I'd love to but there are a few problems. Firstly, I might get done for copyright, secondly I don't have two video recorders and thirdly, the tapes are Pal and not NTSC and may not play on your video recorder (if it is an NTSC format).

[LaoChe]

I work for an animation production company, so we always do NTSC to PAL conversions, so that's not a problem. But alas, sounds like you can't do it anyway. My loss!

[Canyon]

Have sent you a PM. ;)

[Got Pi?]

Unfortunately, I haven't seen all that footage. I wish I did though...I guess I'm going to have to look on eBay...

[bungle92]

This was a major let down for me with the dvd set. I really wish Lucasfilm gave us some more stuff like you guys mentioned, so we wouldn't have to scour the face of the earth for unused footage.

[Indy's_main_man]

True. The footage they did give was minimal as well as the interviews.

AND WHERE'S THE COMMENTARY!?

sorry. anyway, they really should compile all that footage on a collectable DVD of some sort.

[Johan]

seen most of them...should have been in the DVD's

[Ska]

Are you referring to:

Great Movie Stunts & the Making of Raiders of the Lost Ark

and

Great Adventurers & Their Quests: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

???

If you are, I also own them both and watch them just as much as the DVD Bonus Disk and the trilogy. Good stuff...

EDIT: I've tried copying them by hooking up two VCRs together, but a lot of Lucasfilm movies don't allow you to do so. The copies come out scrambled and unwatchable.

Ska

[Ska]

Originally posted by Got Pi?
Unfortunately, I haven't seen all that footage. I wish I did though...I guess I'm going to have to look on eBay...

BTW, that's where I bought them both. I had to buy LC to get the Great Adventurers & Their Quests free. Also, if you have a Hollywood Video near by, I believe they can order one for you to buy. Good luck on your search.

Ska

[ironmonkey]

yea, it should definitely all be on the dvd release. im still let down by how little they included. im affraid that the star wars dvds will be even an even bigger let down.

btw:

Great Movie Stunts & the Making of Raiders of the Lost Ark

and

Great Adventurers & Their Quests: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

are both on ebay now.

[Fedoraman]

The reason they were not included? So that in a few years they could release the Ultimate Trilogy with all the good stuff that should have been inclued in the first release - that way papa lucas and uncle stevey can cash in TWICE.

We should all feel ripped off - don't get me wrong, I am glad we have the films on DVD now, but I am sooooooo tired of film companies pulling this crap just so they can make more $$$.

[Indy Benson]

I'm afraid Fedoraman is right. This seems to be the trend of late.

[Indy's_main_man]

I don't think it's Steve's way of thinking...but the kind of backhanded thing Georgy would do

[Ayrun]

Please explain to me why when it comes down to Spielberg and Lucas… Lucas is always the bad guy?

[Indy's_main_man]

Because If Lucas weren't so controlling we'd already have a trailer for Indy 4

If Lucas wern't in charge the star wars pictures would have original thatrical cuts on DVD

If it weren't for Lucas there wouldn't be so many star wars plugs on the Indy DVDS

[Ayrun]

Originally posted by Indy's_main_man
Because If Lucas weren't so controlling we'd already have a trailer for Indy 4

You can't blame the delay of an entire movie on him alone.

Besides.. in case this is about the script-changes again…..just for the sake of argument; he might have had his reasons. Maybe even good reasons.

Originally posted by Indy's_main_man
If Lucas wern't in charge the star wars pictures would have original thatrical cuts on DVD

This has nothing to do with Spielberg or Indy.
This is Lucas his thing. If he wants to make changes in his own project; nobody can stop him.
Btw.. Didn't Spielberg make some changes in E.T.? People weren't all that happy about that either.

Originally posted by Indy's_main_man
If it weren't for Lucas there wouldn't be so many star wars plugs on the Indy DVDS

I'm not sure what you mean by this… My English lets me down now and then.


Don't get me wrong… I'm not pro-Lucas. But I'm not against him either.

[Indy's_main_man]

Spielberg taking the joke about a boy going as a terrorist for halloween was a smart move after 911.

The replacing the guns with walkie talkies was strange though...but spielberg figured they wouldn't chase kids with guns

and as for blaming lucas alone for the delays I just did. Everything was ready for greenlighting.

Mr Ford: Check

Mr Spielberg: check

Mr Lucas: BEEEEP

maybe if he was this particular about star wars, a movie which HE DIRECTED, I wouldn't mind.

Lucas is too controlling. period.

Oh and example of Star wars plugs include George's first lines on the "making of" documentary being about star wars and talking all about hoe these films didn't use as much special effects as star wars. that's not what we payed for.

did spielberg say "after the huge success of Jaws I decided that..."?

ps: what a lively thread :D

[Ayrun]

lol :D

Originally posted by Indy's_main_man
Oh and example of Star wars plugs include George's first lines on the "making of" documentary being about star wars and talking all about hoe these films didn't use as much special effects as star wars. that's not what we payed for.

did spielberg say "after the huge success of Jaws I decided that..."?

Well… with all do respect… Star Wars was a bigger success than Jaws.
And as Star Wars was more or less the only big thing Lucas did.. I think its understandable if he refers to it so often.
I don't know if it's acceptable….
But it's human…
And there are a few links between these two trilogy's… For instance; Lucas, Ford, I.L.M's involvement….

*looks at watch* It's already one o'clock past midnight where I live.. I'm going to call it a night.
Tomorrow I'll see if can add some more to this matter. ;)

[Indy's_main_man]

good point, ayrun

check and mate

It depends on who you ask about jaws or star wars. Jaws was more of a sucess amung normal moviegoers while star wars sprung people who obsessed over every planet in a completely fictional galaxy. I have no problem with the original trilogies but prequels are sad.

I didn't buy my DVD's to hear about Ford's performance in Star Wars nor Lucas' involvment, nor ILM's fantastic special effects on that film.

If Spielberg doesn't mention the IJ trilogy 50 times on the star wars commentary i'll be mad

[VP]

Back on topic....

I have seen nothing else than the ones on the DVD's.

[Andy Jones]

I've seen Great Movie Stunts & the Making of Raiders of the Lost Ark which I found in a shop for £3.99. Excellent value if you ask me, would have paid a lot more for it.

I wish they would have put this on the DVD. The extras on the DVD were excellent but there is a lot on this video that isn't on the DVD and so would have made it an even better package.

[Finn]

Originally posted by Indy's_main_man
If Spielberg doesn't mention the IJ trilogy 50 times on the star wars commentary i'll be mad Steve is doing SW commentaries? Since when?

And again, the DVDs have polished versions of the movies with good picture and sound quality... that alone should be enough. Who actually buys those discs here for extras only?

Remember, they could have ripped even more $$$ out of our pockets by releasing these as single films, not a box set.