The Young Master - 88 Films - December 7th 2020

[chen lung]

Originally Posted by Killer Meteor

From memory, Media Asia fought it out in the courts with Alpha Films for the rights to the Lo Wei pictures - Alpha licensed the films to Columbia in the US, and Eastern Heroes in the UK.

Are you sure Alpha dealt with Eastern Heroes? Maybe it was Ocean Shores (or both). From what I was told, there might have been a deal of sorts decades ago between Lo Wei and Golden Harvest, which may explain how these titles resided with Star TV.

The Columbia releases were odd / inconsistent. Some had hideous cropped masters (maybe intended for TV?), whilst others were in their original ratios.

There’s a bunch of things I’m curious about, but I’ll leave that for another suitable topic.

[Killer Meteor]

Now that you mention it, the Lo Wei titles were avaliable alongside various Golden Harvest titles for US VHS release from All Seasons back in the 1980s.

[chen lung]

[psychik]

I vote for the picture at the center ! Best framing, best colors ! best sound !

[backslashio]

Going to be hard to resist this, I guess the only way is to keep buying JC titles and hope the releases go away eventually

[Thunderleg]

Originally Posted by chen lung

Sweet! Is it sad I know exactly where in the film this is from?

[Drunksnake]

Originally Posted by Thunderleg

Sweet! Is it sad I know exactly where in the film this is from?

I hope not! Otherwise that makes us a pair of sad acts.

[gZa]

Is it not timestamped in the top left?!

[Thunderleg]

Originally Posted by gZa

Is it not timestamped in the top left?!

Jackie vs Yuen Biao with Shih Kien laughing his ass off is not 1hr33mins into the film.

[chen lung]

Originally Posted by Thunderleg

Jackie vs Yuen Biao with Shih Kien laughing his ass off is not 1hr33mins into the film.

Correct, it’s the counter on the right.

Couldn’t resist giving you all a tease.

[Thunderleg]

Originally Posted by chen lung

Correct, it’s the counter on the right.

Couldn’t resist giving you all a tease.

I thought the top right was the counter for the end of the film...ummm.....

[chen lung]

Originally Posted by Thunderleg

I thought the top right was the counter for the end of the film...ummm.....

In this case it’s Final Cut Pro 7, used to check for differences, compositing a master, or to detect defects.

[psychik]

At the end of the film ? A blooper ?

[Gregor de la Muerte]

Originally Posted by chen lung

You even have a recording of a german TV airing there
Was one of the first JC movies I ever watched on TV.

[Drunksnake]

Originally Posted by chen lung

In this case it’s Final Cut Pro 7, used to check for differences, compositing a master, or to detect defects.

This is interesting. I would really like to see a little feature about 88 films’ Hk cinema restoration work. Maybe meet the team and fans/experts like yourself and show us some of the work that goes into obtaining and restoring the films. Like Hong Kong Legends did with their introduction to Hong Kong Legends dvd featuring Hitman. Just a thought.

[Owenjohnston]

Originally Posted by Drunksnake

This is interesting. I would really like to see a little feature about 88 films’ Hk cinema restoration work. Maybe meet the team and fans/experts like yourself and show us some of the work that goes into obtaining and restoring the films. Like Hong Kong Legends did with their introduction to Hong Kong Legends dvd featuring Hitman. Just a thought.

Always thought this would be a great addition just to make us fully appreciate the amount of restoration work

[Drunksnake]

Originally Posted by Owenjohnston

Always thought this would be a great addition just to make us fully appreciate the amount of restoration work

Yeah would be interesting. I’d like to see KungFuBob’s process too, how he goes about choosing his designs etc. Not that we don’t already fully appreciate what they do but it’d just be interesting.

[chen lung]

Originally Posted by Drunksnake

This is interesting. I would really like to see a little feature about 88 films’ Hk cinema restoration work. Maybe meet the team and fans/experts like yourself and show us some of the work that goes into obtaining and restoring the films.

Do I get to wear whatever I want?

Maybe a podcast would be nice, though it lacks the visual element. I kinda prefer the forums, but who knows.

[Chorake]

Just found out about this today. Thank God they're doing this too!

[Drunksnake]

Originally Posted by chen lung

Do I get to wear whatever I want?

Maybe a podcast would be nice, though it lacks the visual element. I kinda prefer the forums, but who knows.

You can absolutely wear whatever you want!