Quote from: GreyLizard226 on March 28, 2022, 11:38:41 AM

It seems like over the years we keep thinking we’ve found a VHS copy with the missing footage, and every time it just leads us to  a standard copy.

But what about that rumor that the uncut version was broadcast in Finland in the mid-90’s? Do we know for sure that it was just a rumor?

I am no expert on this since I was a small kid back then, but I have a faint memory of seeing the first Land Before Time on VHS when visiting a friend in the early 2000's, and I was wondering why they had changed some of the scenes. The VHS my friend had was the regular version, so either:
a) I had seen the uncut version as a kid before (not when it broadcastet, but on tape. We used to record a lot of shows and movies on VHS tapes)
b) I didn't remember how the movie went / mixed it up with some other movie.

Maybe the latter is more likely, considering that I don't remember much about my childhood in the 90's. But, I know for sure that this is a topic that Finnish fans also talk about. Mostly I've seen it on toy collector forums/FB pages, so it's not necessarily that insightful, but I remember taking a part in a few conversations. Usually they end with a statement like "I hope that someone had recorded it on tape and still have it saved somewhere." So, I would say that it is a myth until someone can provide footage of it :\

I don't really feel that there should be a remake to be done. Like few people here have said it, when it comes to remakes I'm not a fan of them either. I think they are just ways to make more money, when you just can't come up with new ideas. If the day comes that I become a father, I will definitely show my kids the movies that I enjoyed as a kid myself, the original being one of them. And when it comes to keeping the storyline exactly the same, I agree with that. There's really no need to change how the plot goes.

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Quote from: Sovereign on Apr 28 2018, 04:23:52 PM

Thanks for bringing that connection up even if we've seen that scene before. In any case, it's good to see you again. You and your efforts to search for the uncut film were one of the things that raised my interest to this site in the first place.

Yeah still thinking about it, almost ten years since I wandered here It's good to see GoF going strong and this is a really nice discovery.  Malte still around here?

The outcut scenes thread original post has died out with all the pics gone. I think it would deserve to be revived a bit with all the later discovered cels and footage gathered in one post, we even have the script now for accurate description of the scenes.

I read through that thread a while back and managed to get a number of images from it (before the Photobucket crap happened) and uploaded some of them to the LBT wiki. There's a user on there that I also found out was secretly uploading never-befores-seen cels on there since 2014. There's one of Littlefoot's mother in pain and it fits in the script actually.

As for putting all the scenes and cels into one post would be a massive undetaking at this point, something that would be considered a major project myself. Summer is coming up soon so I might do it. I'll have a lot more free time and the motivation to spend the countless hours working on putting together a massive, user-friendly review/guide which talks about the script, cels, storyboards and deleted scenes in detail.

Bluth has stated on no uncertain terms that Spielberg has the only copy of the missing footage and that he's not releasing it. It doesn't get more final than that. Why so hopeless, because I'm tired of this baseless rumor.

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2. Many fans from various countries have told about seeing such an uncut version. Similar cases of scenes included in movie adaptions of some countries but not in all of them are not unheard of. I consider the probability higher that such different cuts of the movie have actually been aired rather than assuming or accusing of collective memory failure or deliberate misinformation.

People claimed that you can unlock Luigi in Super Mario 64 for years, worldwide. Guess what? You can't. I rest my case.

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That should be relatively easy to find out. In Finland we at least have a national movie archive with original theatrical copies of the movies stored and you can go watch them.

Well, could somebody from Finland go to this place and watch them?

I actually stumbled across a petition Let's do something to get those deleted scenes, shan't we?

PS: Does anybody know if there's a list of all airings of the movie in the near future (or does anybody know which tv-stations are airing them?)? I'm especially interested to see the next finnish airing for obvious reasons...

Keep hunting guys!

^really? Which scene?

I think Spike's laughter at least sounds quite human-made.

I think the original version of the film was altered quite a bit, which explains why the movie is only one hour and 9 minutes long. I think Littlefoot was supposed to find the Great Valley before them all, but FAR ahead of them, leading to the part where they find the desert, Littlefoot actually mistaking it for the Great Valley. Then, Cera says her "This is your Great Valley?!?!?!??? YOU'RE CRAZY!!!!!" line. If you notice the part where Littlefoot sees his mother's spirit in the clouds, you see the giant rock in the background that killed the Sharptooth, which seems like it was supposed to happen before they killed Sharptooth.