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mrdngm
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754 Posts
11/04
Posted - Aug 26 2008 : 6:23PM
My favorite era in adult is roughly from 1992 - 2002. So much great stuff, originally released on vhs with vhs time constraints.
It looks like Bruce Seven titles from the nineties like Takin' It to The Limit are out on DVD now, distributed by Pleasure. That makes a lot of people happy, but how much happier we'd be if we could see longer versions of those scenes. In the VHS age, movies could only use a fraction of available footage -- with DVDs those limits don't exist. If original footage exists, let's see what we missed the first time around.
In [ invalid url ] Jim Holliday introduces a scene with Jill Kelly and Shayla Laveaux as a "recut" of an older scene. The scene works well. It's a great idea, as long the footage exists. It's great to see older stuff being released on DVD but it'd be even better to see something new and improved.

Edited by - mrdngm on Aug 26 2008

Aplus
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1431 Posts
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Posted - Aug 27 2008 : 12:16AM
I talked to a director from those times once about such times. From what I gathered, extra footage from older films is rare. Most of what was shot was either shown or ended up on the cutting room floor. A lot of footage simply isn't available due to it being deemed unusuable. Things like lighting or sound problems, or other cast and crew members in or wandering in shots, or simply not needed. Personally I don't think filmmakers realize just what they have sometimes though. It amazes me how much great footage I see on the behind-the-scenes segments of modern dvd's that somehow never make the final cut. I assumed the invention of dvd would allow filmmakers to release more footage from films from the 80's & 90's. Just doesn't appear to be much left behind, plus there is the tough thing of finding the original master tapes and who now owns them.
mrdngm
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754 Posts
11/04
Posted - Aug 29 2008 : 11:03PM
It doesn't sound good.... No surprise that in the case of most films it's a lost cause.
But there may be exceptions where a company or individual director has saved the source footage. As with the Jim Holliday example, it has been done. 4-Play did a recut scene comp The Best of Doctor Butts but the comp itself was on vhs so I don't think the scenes were any longer. They did take off some music, IIRC.
lickitysplit
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30 Posts
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Posted - Mar 11 2012 : 11:19PM
Hmmm... this is interesting. I wasn't aware that there were some DVD releases of older titles that had longer versions of scenes.
Is anyone aware of any DVD releases of older titles that have longer versions of scenes?



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