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The Ewoks Episode Guide, which aired from 1985. Download microsoft access wine cellar template free software. There are 13 cartoons in this animated television series. Continuing Star Wars month on my site, we’ll be picking up where my last post left off and looking at the second animated Star Wars series titled “Star Wars Ewoks”. This show also premiered in 1985, but it lasted till 1986, it had two full seasons, and a total of 35 episodes, so this show got to stick around longer than its predecessor.
Episode Recap Ewoks on TV.com. Watch Ewoks episodes, get episode information, recaps and more. 6 STAR WARS: EWOKS (1985-1986) Ewoks is another animated series in the vein of Droids. This time the show focuses on Ewoks, specifically Wicket before the Battle of Endor, as he matures and has adventures with friends. Release the Droids and Ewoks Complete Series from the 80's on DVD/BluRay Jerry Hatfield II started this petition to The Walt Disney Company and 2 others In the mid 80's, ABC Networks came out with 2 cartoon series, Droids and Ewoks.
Ewoks Animated
Well this is it, the previously mentioned “version 1.0” is almost ready, so I thought it is a good idea to write some “specifications” about the DVDs.
The first season consists of 13 episodes on 5 DVDs. The reason why there are only 3 episodes on each disc (and 1 episode on the last one) is very simple - most of you guys prefer quality, so each stream is encoded with really great bitrate. The average bitrate of every video is 8 Mbps , the audio tracks are encoded as 256kbps ac3 stereo.
Each episode was transferred by Fritz (VideoCollector) from his own UK tapes (check his site : http://www.swonvideo.com/ ) on his standalone DVD recorder with maximum bitrate. The resulting MPG files were sent to me, where a little “restoration” began. The episodes in their raw state looked perfect for a transfer of a 20+ years old VHS tape, but with a closer look many of the episodes were pretty noisy.
What I have done is I have carefully checked what is the best method of removing the noise without “washing out” the details. Some of the episodes required just a touch of one of the most primitive Avisynth filters (Undot()), but most of them were cleaned up using the excellent VirtualDubMod filter NeatVideo. Another change was the colour correction - originally I planned to splice in DVD footage wherever it was possible, so I wanted to have the VHS colours to have as close to the DVD image as possible. The last change was cropping and resizing - the captured videos had a thick black border on the left size and / or the right size (NOT the standard 8 black pixels on each side), and the actual image was “squeezed”. I have removed a part of the borders (each episode required different settings), and the rest was stretched to 720x576 (PAL DVD proportions) - now the image looks more natural.
The changed videos were exported from VirtualDubMod to lossless AVI files (HuffYuv codec) and then encoded to PAL DVD -compliant mpg files with Cinema Craft Encoder as interlaced TFF mpgs. I have returned in Womble the opening and closing themes to each episode, the opening looks worse than the episodes, because it comes from a different source.
Just to let you know HOW exactly do the episodes LOOK like, here are 6 pictures (2 from each episode)
HELP NEEDED
This project needs your help !
DVD cover - since this first season consists (will consist) of 5 DVDs, I would welcome if somebody could do 2 variants of a DVD cover - 1 variant for 5 individual discs, and 1 variant for a 6DVD box. I know there are MANY talented cover artists here, please help if you want 😃
DVD labels - somebody could do some nice DVD labels for each disc ?
A better name - “The Ewoks Project” sounds pretty lame, it’s just a “temp name” - I’m pretty sure you guys can come up with something more interesting, I’m curious to read your tips 😃
BONUS MATERIAL - The last episode will have its own DVD, but it has only 1.3 GB. I want to fill the remaining space with as much bonus features as possible. I currently have :
Ewoks Complete Cartoon Series Dvd
- the Ewoks comics - quite bad scans of 14 Marvel comic books
- 1985 - WKBW ABC - Saturday Morning Cartoons Christmas promo - a TV commercial
- Star Wars Insider 73 - a Nelvana article
- “A Star Wars CELibration” from another Star Wars Insider
- TV episode guide to Droids and Ewoks
- Paul Dini interview from Starlog Yearbook
- UK Dairylea Droids / Ewoks VHS commercial
- UK Ewoks / Droids trailer from Dairylea tape
Ewoks Tv Series
and that’s it. Does anybody have something interesting to add to the bonus features ?