Old School Special Effects.

[horrie hastings]

 

[horrie hastings]

A little bit of Grease




Randal Kleiser with Olivia and John Travolta.

 

[Mark B]

Close Encounters is one of those movies I can always watch no matter how many times I have already seen it. Great photos Horrie. Poltergeist scared the hell out of me.

 

[horrie hastings]

Close Encounters is one of those movies I can always watch no matter how many times I have already seen it. Great photos Horrie. Poltergeist scared the hell out of me.

Love Close Encounters, haven't watched it in ages but its on my list to watch again soon. Watched Poltergeist not too long ago on blu ray. I remember when i originally saw it at the movies, all the things happening early on, i thought why is it all happening, it wasn't until the scene when they were on the hill discussing about building the 2nd stage the housing estate and they were standing next to the graves that they mentioned that the original estate was built over the graves then every thing fell into place for me. I still get chills watching Poltergeist 39 years on.

 

[Mark B]

Another deleted scene from Jaws. This is the estuary scene. The original shot was to have the row boat victim alive in the sharks mouth whilst he he takes hold of the young Brody boy. Was cut due to being to gruesome.
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-h6DZgHIl...200-h630-p-k-no-nu/IMG_20200620_114522814.jpg

 

[Mark B]

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/98/2d/91/982d91145b65ca7910c7a6f5474af991.jpg

 

[Mark B]

Another one of Bruce and a crew member during the filming of the cut Alex Kitner scene. This shot of Bruce is pretty awesome. Whilst the mechanical shark has copped plenty over the years, this shot looks pretty bloody real.
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/47/cd/7b/47cd7be32095f8bfcc49b59b74a34fe5.jpg

 

[Mark B]

 

[horrie hastings]

Seems to be a bit extra in this clip but cant work out whether the bit extra is a mock up or more of the deleted scene, either way it is in pretty bad taste.

Ah ok, it is a recreation.

 

[horrie hastings]

Another deleted scene from Jaws. This is the estuary scene. The original shot was to have the row boat victim alive in the sharks mouth whilst he he takes hold of the young Brody boy. Was cut due to being to gruesome.
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-h6DZgHIl...200-h630-p-k-no-nu/IMG_20200620_114522814.jpgView attachment 52542

I'm actually glad they didn't show the Alex Kitner death or the estuary scene like they intended .

 

[Mark B]

I'm actually glad they didn't show the Alex Kitner death or the estuary scene like they intended .

Absolutely. The mystery of the shark up until you see it attack the guy in the estuary is the corner stone of this great movie.

 

[horrie hastings]

A deleted scene from Jaws, not that it added anything to the story line, apart from establishing Quint as a bit of a bully

 

[Mark B]

I remember watching a tv edition of Jaws when I was a teen. They called it the ABC network cut. That scene with quite a few others were included. One scene that comes to mind is the extended scene of all the yahoo’s when they caught the Tiger Shark. It was pure bedlam. Shots going off left right and centre, boats colliding and the three rednecks who ultimately said they caught it in the main cut Were full of shit.

 

[horrie hastings]

I remember watching a tv edition of Jaws when I was a teen. They called it the ABC network cut. That scene with quite a few others were included. One scene that comes to mind is the extended scene of all the yahoo’s when they caught the Tiger Shark. It was pure bedlam. Shots going off left right and centre, boats colliding and the three rednecks who ultimately said they caught it in the main cut Were full of shit.

Its funny how sometimes when they show movies on TV they show some of the extra stuff and deleted scenes.
I recall when they first showed Earthquake here on TV they cut some of the theatrical scenes out and also added a new sub plot.
Apparently when it was going to air in the US for the first time on TV they wanted to air it over 2 nights as an event movie presentation, when Universal went through the deleted footage they didn't have a lot that would have fitted the extended time slot , there was basically only a bit at the start that showed Stuart, Remy and the doctor that was deleted and it was dealing with abortion so it was deemed not satisfactory for the time slot, so apart from one brief extra scene with Victoria Principal waiting for a bus and a prologue at the start before the opening credits, Universal had nothing so they filmed extra scenes including extra footage of the looters who got shot dead, extra scenes of Victoria Principal being stalked by the psychotic national guardsman and a whole sub plot about a couple on a plane who the husband was going to work at the engineering company Charlton Heston worked at. It was an absolute mess and the later filmed shots didn't match up to the quality of the original picture.

I remember Airport 77 when it first aired here also had extra scenes but at least they were deleted scenes and at least matched the context of the movie.

Two Minute Warning was another movie they messed with, i think they shot extra scenes later on for the TV release and it ended up being a totally different movie, it was that long ago that i saw it so my memory is very vague on that.

 

[Jim Rockford]

It's usually done to make up for stuff that has been cut to meet TV guidelines (language,violence,nudity etc). I remember when ebay first started I had a great time buying TV cuts of movies I loved.

 

[Mark B]

Found this bit of gold. These are all the extra footage shots from the ABC tv edition. As you can see the footage has been edited and cleaned up.

 

[horrie hastings]

It's usually done to make up for stuff that has been cut to meet TV guidelines (language,violence,nudity etc). I remember when ebay first started I had a great time buying TV cuts of movies I loved.

I ended up getting a really dodgy copy of Earthquake with the added scenes cut in with the whole theatrical version.

When it aired here back in 1983 it was only screened over one night unlike when it was shown in the US over two nights and some of the added scenes weren't shown, the extra bits with the looters completely left out, also bits of the theatrical were cut, mainly profanities and the elevator splat scene.

 

[horrie hastings]

This scene was in the audience preview of the movie before it was fully released but was cut. Obviously the sequence has been lost now but this is a recreation with the dialogue and the some stills of the scene.

 

[horrie hastings]

Jaws 2 deleted scenes.

 

[horrie hastings]

I remember recording Countdown when they were repeating episodes from the 80's and they had a short segment about songs that were going up the charts that weren't in the top 10 yet and it had ELO's I'm Alive from Xanadu on it, even though it was only brief, the cut of the clip was different from the sequence in the movie, not a lot of difference but two things were slightly different, i remember finding it later on on you tube and saving it but i can't find it at the moment, was just interesting the difference of the scene even though very similar.


Lol, just found it, 3 different things to the theatrical version.