MST3K S03E03 Gamera fixed 468p.10bit.DVDRip.x265-jocksinclair-budgetbits

MST3K S03E03 Gamera fixed 468p.10bit.DVDRip.x265-jocksinclair-budgetbits

This is the Mystery Science Theater 3000 version with commentary audio over the movie, and breaks for skits. Do not download this if you want to watch the normal movie cut.

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GENERAL INFO

Genre
Parody, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi

Air date
June 8, 1991

Source info
Source is a restoration by jacksinclair, who wrote:

Hi, I'm wrapping up another unreleased episode that will probably be posted over the weekend, but in the meantime, I was uploading this file somewhere for a friend, I thought I would put it here too.

So, first off, Shout Factory's MST3k "Gamera" box set is out of print.  So it would probably be okay to just post a straight DVD rip.  But this is better than that, because the DVD has two flaws that mar an otherwise pretty good presentation.

#1 - there is a host segment where Mike Nelson appears as Gamera and gets a phone call from Godzilla.  Even though the sound effects aren't even real Godzilla sound effects, but are just similarish sounds, Shout Factory has muted all traces of sounds attributed to Godzilla.  The gag still kind of works, because there is a visual aspect, but the lack of the sound does hurt it a lot.

#2 - this is one of about 30-40 episodes where Shout trims footage in order to remove the non-bumper commercial break [usually somewhere around 55min to 1hr mark].  But it's one of only two or three where this results in a missing riff.  It's kind of Joel's fault; he keeps talking way into the black here, I bet this got cut off on TV all the time.

When I did this, in general I tried to do a quick pass looking for tape hits to clean up.  I don't remember any specific ones in this episode, but if there were, hopefully I fixed them!

Building off of the DVD base, several sources were used to reconstruct both the excised audio and the missing video in the best quality I can achieve, including DAP, archive.org, and the Youtube broadcast channel run by Kolos.

Custom chapter stops have been created based around host segments and commercial breaks.


Feel free to share these with other fans -- KEEP SPREADING THE TAPES and all that.  Just don't profit off it.


Encoding info
Encoded by budgetbits with HandBrake 1.3.2, slower preset, x265, 10 bit, crf 22, sao/strong-intra-smoothing/rect disabled.

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MEDIAINFO
General
Filename = MST3K S03E03 Gamera fixed 468p.10bit.DVDRip.x265-jocksinclair-budgetbits.mkv
Duration = 1 h 37 min
Size = 518 MiB
Overall bit rate = 743 kb/s

Video #0
Format = HEVC x265 - 3.2.1+1-b5c86a64bbbe:[Linux][GCC 9.3.0][64 bit] 10bit
Resolution = 692x468
Aspect ratio = 4:3 (1.344)
Bit rate = 677 kb/s
Frame rate = 27.730 FPS

Audio #0
Title = Stereo
Format = Opus
Channels = 2 channels
Bit rate = 62.7 kb/s
Sampling rate = 48.0 kHz
Language = English