Star Wars Holiday Special: 5K 60fps Upscale (1978)
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- Опубліковано 28 тра 2024
- Using www.topazlabs.com/topaz-video... with a few other techniques we've meticulously upscaled & restored the infamous Star Wars Holiday Special to 5120x3840, with stereo elements, to the best quality the technology currently allows. Why not sit back and enjoy this with family over the holiday break! 🚀 The resolution has the same height as 8K though due to the 4:3 aspect ratio YT labels it as 4K, so let's just call it 5K! 📺 Note: Opening title music replaced, one song & cartoon omitted, to conform to stricter recent YT copyright requirements (the Boba Fett cartoon is now on Disney+). All material property of Disney & rights holders, upscaled/restored here as a fan project under Fair Use Law pertaining to "remixes and mashups". 🎬 Happy Life Day everyone!
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1:00 Titles
3:04 Chewie's Family Awaits
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15:20 Imperial Trouble Brewing
19:00 The Cooking Show with Chef Gormaanda
23:45 Han & Chewie in peril
28:03 Virtual Reality Musical Interlude
35:22 Princess Leia contacts Chewie's Family
37:24 Han & Chewie's arrival
38:50 Act Two - Imperial Occupation at Chewie's
53:00 Life on Tatooine
1:07:18 Act Three - Imperial Occupation ends
1:13:18 Life Day Celebration Begins
1:16:00 Princess Leia's Life Day Message
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Dude, its like taking shoe polish to a petrified turd and putting a high gloss shine on the turd. It's still a turd, just a shiny turd.
Is the full, "uncensored" (non-YT) version available anywhere for download? I would love to see this in its complete form.
what's up with Mark Hamill's hair due in this show? lol
Tick bath for Lumpy! Thanks for this upscale. Can I ask if you would consider upscaling the old Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes? They are in 480 standard Def and could benefit from what you've done here. The problem is that UA-cam limits the bandwidth so like this Start Wars upscale they'd be better off being uploaded elsewhere.
@@jaredontv He recently had his car crash so had a lot of make up to hide the scars, and I imagine the hair colour change was part of his new image to go with his new nose ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Disney cannot strike this down - they would have to admit it is theirs first 😀
If they strike this down, it’ll become more powerful than they can possibly imagine.
You do realize that George Lucas decided sell Star Wars to Disney, because of the so-called 'fans' that told Lucas that he did a terrible job on the Prequels. So instead of blaming Disney for doing what 'any' company would've done if 'they' had the chance to buy Star Wars, blame GEORGE LUCAS for not believing in his story. Also, if you can do a better job, then do it. Otherwise, don't watch it.
@@markusallen5634George sold it, to my knowledge, for the money. He wanted the same deal as was given to Pixar (another, technical Lucas related production). So, it wasn't because George didn't believe in his work, but rather, he sold because of the money. He sold it for something like $4 billion in cash plus 4% to 10% of Disney's stock. 🤷🏾♂️
you made me spit my biscuit all over my keyboard 😥 what will I dip in my tea now
They're produced worse
Still better than The Last Jedi.
Not really
and The Last Jedi is still better than Rise of Skywalker
@@markdutton335 road kill is better than the last Jedi
Facts
Better than anything made by Disney Lucasfilm.
The Holiday Special has everything: Nightmare fuel Wookiees, Mark Hamill with uncanny valley levels of makeup, Harrison Ford bored out of his mind cursing his agent, coked up Carrie Fisher singing (with extra instrumentals to hide the out of tune parts) and fever dream vignettes.
😂
Hamill looks like that because he'd recently received plastic surgery for a motorcycle accident.
And even a guest appearance by Beatrice Arthur!
@@biblehistoryscience3530 The car accident where he fractured his nose and left cheekbone?
@Dulcimerist , yeah, I obviously meant that car accident. Imagine my embarrassment forgetting a detail about something that happened 46 years ago.
Ah, for us? You shouldn't have!
No. Really.
YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE!
I bet your George Lucas' new best friend after uploading this.
Expect Gavin Sykes to not be canon anymore
*you’re
@@ObiWanBillKenobioh ok, that makes more sense
Actually, George Lucas hated the holiday special and did his best to stop people from ever seeing it.
@@Thomas_H._Smith That’s why the original comment is funny, because it’s sarcastic.
Who knew that in a Star Wars movie with Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, and Harrison Ford... Bea Arthur would end up being the best thing about it
"I'll run a tab for The Empire." That was pure Maude Findlay.
AND Art Carney!!
This is Deadpools favorite bea Arthur acting credit.
Ignorant comment - Bea Arthur was a solid actress, great gravitas and theater-trained. Next to Mark, Harrison and Carrie - she was already an iconic actress at this point in her career - just because you don’t know something, doesn’t mean it has to be a surprise.
I actually think that's more "Star Wars" than a lot of the movies. It's got a "Cabaret" WW2 vibe that feels right for the universe.
I feel like I've just looked at the Lost Ark of the Covenant, and my face is melting. A wonderful Christmas present 👏👏👏
Only a true Star Wars fan will endure how bad this Holiday Special was for the sake of the love we have for Star Wars. But never the less we need to thank you for upscaling this historic piece of Star Wars material.
Lol, mark hamill's best work.
I just focus on getting to the Jefferson starship performance, if I can endure to that point then I can get through the whole thing
I feel much the same about everything they’ve churned out since Disney got involved.
stop simping for companies that milk you for money.
@@jc4388No, that's gotta go to his work as the joker. Especially his last job was him in Arkham City
I've been dodging this for 40 years... I suppose I can't keep avoiding it.
Search your feelings... you know it to be yuletide.
I'll never join you!
@@sirvivor7835 Let go... Christmas is just around the corner.
Sadly, one of the rare items that can't be improved by the upscaling. I remember watching this on TV as a kid the one time it aired. And afterwards, we were all like "What did we just watch?" I used to tell our own children about this horrible thing called the "Star Wars Holiday Special" that was so bad it never aired a second time--only later to discover that Lucas tried to hide it forever--obviously, he didn't succeed, and Perifractric has now unleashed it on the world in an all-new, 5K glory! Thanks!
Can’t wait for the AI-upscale VR experience. I want to pet the Chewbaccas 🐕
I had the exact same reaction when I saw the first Disney Star Wars movie. The only thing I could think of was Southpark was right with George Lucas raping Indiana Jones, but it was KKKenedy buggering poor Luke.
Oh how sorry for you! I saw this as a kid and as an obsessive fan of the film and all things Star Wars I absolutely Loved it, especially the Boba Fett segment!
5K awesome I can experience the pain with clarity.
This has made me both itchy and lumpy
Most Underrated Comment! ❤️
Imagine the shame any Star Wars fan must have felt seeing this for the first time.
The only thing worse would be convincing someone who's never seen any of the movies to watch this with you after non-stop fan gilring over how great Star Wars was. Thinking why not sit and watch this 'holiday special' together cause it should be awesome.
Imagine those people whose first contact with Star Wars was the holiday special in tv... It probably would have been the last :D
Truly Lucas' most historic moment in the Star Wars franchise! Much appreciated for immortalising this in 5K. 😂
It was needed. We should all have the privilege of seeing this masterpiece in all its glory.😉
You'll never see the raiders name in any other credits of any movie because after this was made George Lucas haunted him down and killed him
This is almost eerie. I had just turned 8 years old when this was broadcast and watched it in a "cabin in the woods" (technically a mobile home, but "cabin" sounds better) on my grandparents' MASSIVE 25-inch Emerson console TV... and this looks just like the original broadcast. Fantastic work here. Thanks for sharing it, and Happy Life Day!
Just like the original, huh... WELP! So much for that upscaling job, 5K my sweaty ass!
@@BeanieKingincel
'nanu-nanu'
ObiWan: I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if a single voice suddenly cried out in terror and was suddenly silenced.
Gorge Lucas (distant voice): Noooooooooooooo
60fps gives the whole thing a look like it’s a sitcom recorded with a home camera in the 80s 😅
Note that it was actually filmed on television cameras, so 60 fps was not added by AI.
@@AlexisTatarinov VHS/Betamax refresh rates were fixed at 24, 25, and 30 fps, but the illusion of smoother motion on a standard television set was usually the result of the CRT screen itself having a scanline frequency of 60hz. This means that 24, 25, and 30 fps broadcasts were often displayed non-interlaced at double the refresh rate, giving the illusion of a higher framerate.
@@AlexisTatarinov wrong. Never was 60, the footage itself.
@@DarkcranioYou're right. It was actually 59.98 Hz
@@Sum_Yousah yes HZ, but not frame per second a.k.a Fps. The original trilogy was shot for 24fps so, i assume TV episodes were too. So the highest it went was 30fps.
I remember this when it first came out and I was like "oh my eyes my poor eyes!" But now, I'm like "OMG! MY EYES! MY POOR POOR EYES!!!"
The goggles! They do NOTHING!!
This is obviously the inspiration for the sequel trilogy.
We just won't let George forget this one. Thank you internet(and Retro Recipes)
My favourite “Star Wars” film ever….especially with a few drinks! Thanks for upscaling!
With great power comes great responsibility... and you decided to use that gift to inflict this upon us...
Retro Recipes, I salute you!
Ford was interviewed recently if he would make another... his reply: "i would rather be dead" 😂😂
The cringe is strong in this one.
The flinch
?????? You are cringe
I remember watching this in shock even as a 7 year old … wondering how the same people brought us such an amazing movie just a few months early was able to create this monstrosity
Bigger disappointment than Rise of Skywalker.
@@mayomonkey3810 i don’t know 🤷♂️
I refuse to watch it 😂
Because it wasn’t the same people, George Lucas had nothing to do with it he signed off on the project but it definitely wasn’t the vision he had…and after he saw it he tried to get his name and any link to him off the project. Lol
"The special was extremely poorly received, and has never been rebroadcast nor officially released on home video. It has become something of a cultural legend due to the underground quality of its existence. It has been viewed and distributed in off-air recordings made from its original telecast by fans as bootleg copies, and it has also been uploaded to content-sharing websites. In contrast, the animated segment that introduced Boba Fett was positively received and, in 2021, was released on Disney+."
1000x better than the sequels.
No... Actually Disney should claim this so they have something to point to that's somehow worse than Rise of Skywalker...
hahah I always have this ranked above The Last Jedi when I rank everything star wars
It actually makes them watchable
@@camerontevis2054 Last Jedi is so much better than Rise of Skywalker. I think it's better than Force Awakens and Phantom too.
@@namikstudios No, Phantom is one of the best films of all time. Disney is not close.
Nobody deletes this video and nobody takes down this video because this the highest quality possible and we don’t want this to be lost again we want to preserve it
It's even stranger in 5K. Thank you!!!!!
I saw the original film 13 times in the theater the year that it came out, but this wins the Emmy for Best Unintentional Comedy. It is an embarrassment that keeps on giving 45 years later, a real blessing in disguise. After the opening sequence, you get nearly 10 minutes of uninterrupted Wookie. Is it wrong that this is my favorite part? I'll tell you when I stop laughing. May the farce be with you, and thanks SO much for this.🥳
"May the farce be with you" Now that's a hilarious statement that fits perfectly here. Chapeau! 😂👍
"God bless us all, everyone!" - Lumpy, probably
"I'm glad I could be here" - Harrison Ford in The Star Wars Holiday Special
Just when you think youre at the darkest, deepest depths of horror, something even move wicked this way comes.
many fans haven't seen this, and remastering it before the holidays was a great move!
I remember watching this when it first aired when I was a wee lad n thinking what I still think about it today n that's what the hell did I just watch? God u have to love the 70's!
I was "today" old when I first saw this... and I saw Star Wars in the theater in 1977. Wow. I heard the odd comments over the years but now I know why nobody talks about this "special" and why I never saw it as a kid or teen.
This is clearly how Lucas intended it to be but just didn't have the technology at the time
This special has, LITERALLY, never looked so tidy and neat! Even my BEST bootleg VHS copy hunting could ever get anything THIS sweet.
You Sir, are once again a Prince among men! Thank you for upgrading my EXTREMELY fuzzy memory of this almost lost gem!
There is a remastered blu ray of this, and I have it and it looks nearly as good as what is shown here. It even has lots of extra content.
This is still better than all of Disney's "star wars" movies.
Hey theres a rey movie coming up directed by a journalist who hates men. Could be a biggie for them.
There is not lies in your afirmation
thats an original thought.... How's the bandwagon doing?
@@theessentials450 huh? No one likes custard on a hamburger.. is that jumpin on bandwagon. .
No one likes them films.
@@armondtanzShe doesn't hate men. She makes movies on Palestine's treatment of women. Her men comment was said as a joke, in the context of one of those movies. Doing research would do wonders.
It's a Christmas miracle!
Mahalo for this. What a cool Christmas present. I'm one of the extant few who watched it on the evening it was broadcast. I was so STARVED for more "Star Wars" that I overlooked and forgave all the silly nonsense that the younglings go on about nowadays. Mele Kalikimaka and Hau'oli Makahiki Hou!
I saw it as a little kid when it aired, as well!
As arguably terrible as this show was, the quality of this recording is amazing!! I thought only old VHS copies were around. after watching it a few times, sort of grows on you and was all part of the Star Wars euphoria back then. Great fun innocent times.
It's ... a nostalgia piece, like watching old Kroft or Hanna Barbera stuff from the 70s.
29:25 ....I wasn't paying attention, but then this part happened and now I'm watching it, and I feel like I might be hallucinating. It's like some super weird trip. The components of this scene and the questions. My brain has started to melt. I think I might go and get a cup of tea and think about life choices.
Would recommend A+++
A masterpiece ! Great acting, wookie dialogues are awesome. Astonishing Audacity of staging. I didn’t know Leia was an accountant. And Merry Christmas 🎅🏼🎄to the Fractic family and the fanfractic community
Leia was also a coke head. And this was her peak performance ^^
I thought you liked us Mr Fractic 😂😂. I thought i would never see this after the first time i seen it oh the pain oh the pain. Thanks for the hard work and ofc am going to watch it that said i may need a crate of beer to help me 😂🤣. Merry Christmas to the chat and to who ever reads this and Merry Christmas to all at Retro Recipes and i hope 2024 brings much joy to you all 🙂
I fear for Peri. I mean, I know his grasp on sanity has always been tenuous, but this...? THIS??
Still better than the last batch of Star Wars movies......
I may be slightly biased but I liked them ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Sorry @@RetroRecipesforgot you were involved production wise with them. 😅
@@OscarInAsia NO.
Just... NO.
@@NebLleb Yes. Cope
Big wow to see this so cleaned up, my 30yr old VHS is suitably devalued 😊
This is still better than The Last Jedi.
You've made the eventual Disney restoration all the more difficult now. Bravo!
I was looking forward to Life Day this year!
I watched this live when it first ran. The comedy variety show was a staple of 1970s TV. Exploiting a movie in this format at Christmas made sense at the time. Studios weren't as obsessive about controlling their IP (although Lucas would help to change that). Also there was a huge gap between movies and TV which it's hard to appreciate today. You just wouldn't think of TV and movies happening in the same "universe". Star Trek the motion picture wouldn't come out for another couple years - and that was a milestone in bridging that gap. You would almost think: "Who cares? It's just TV". And you also almost never saw actors move back and forth between the two. Apart from the Star Wars cast, most of these people - Harvey Korman, Bea Arthur, Art Carney - were TV comedy actors. In some ways the feature film intruding into the TV comedy variety show is the weird part (or innovative part). Still, there's a lot to love about this - there is original music (it was a musical variety show so they had a great studio orchestra at hand) and the very first appearance in the world of the Imperial March and the Luke & Leia musical theme which doesn't otherwise show up until ROTJ. Even as a tiny kid I knew it wasn't that great, but we would do anything - anything - to catch a little hit of Star Wars (remember, you could only see this in the cinema - and then you had to just hold onto it in your imagination). But the animated section (which I somehow missed in the video), which introduced us to Boba Fett - or to his design anyway - was absolutely thrilling. I have a lot of time for the Holiday Special. I also enjoy seeing Carrie Fisher high as an effin kite.
I watch this EVERY YEAR! Oh hell no, once in a lifetime was enough, but... Happy Life Day!
This. Is. Epic. I truly hope Disney doesn't 86 it.
Why, this would be the only thing working for them right now. :)
That's why I am downloading it now.. :-)
The force of The Mouse is strong in this one 😮
Oh my goodness! Saw this as a kid when it first aired on TV. Next day on the school playground, then genuine consensus was... confusion and "I guess it was ok". This remaster is amazing. Thanks for cleaning this up and presenting something was almost forgot about.... or tried to forget about? LOL! Cheers to the Fractic Fam.
The copy i watched had commercials included. Definitely a fun watch
Now I'm reliving the pain
Thank you for posting the holiday special with high definition.
Thanking you for this! It's our annual required holiday movie we all watch! 👏🏼
What a special surprise, more than special!!!
ALL STAR WARS FANS LOVE THIS MOVIE!!! 🤣🤣🤣
Thank you. Now my nightmares of this will be even more vivid!
Ça faisait longtemps que je m'étais tordu de rire comme ça! Merci!
This is by far the most impressive upscale I've ever seen done. My god, well done...and just in time for life day!!
Better than it deserves to look.
One of these days I'll actually watch it from beginning to end
With the exception of Rogue One, this puts all of Disney Stars to shame.
I like how they have a flat screen monitor for in the kitchen.
You madman, what have you done?!?!
Thank you for uploading this. Star Wars was always "out there"...overtly META and the Holiday Special was no different, just way ahead of its time. I Loved it...! Happy Life Day.
horribly good. Also reminded me of Bill Murray's lounge singer act from SNL singing the Star Wars theme!
You've made the worst thing ever made.... better! Hat's off to you! From one fan to another, thank you!
Yay, we get to see Mark's garrish makeup in full quality.
I clicked on Subtitles, but the Wookies aren't translated. Imagine all that great dialog we missed out on. 🤣
Excellent!👍 I have a special place for this show in my heart. I was so excited to watch it as a kid and I loved it, even if it was technically bad. Just getting to see Luke, Han and Leia in something new at that time was a treat. Thank you for doing this!
Thanks for this one - will watch and enjoy tonight. :)
Thank you very much for your job. I saw this programm in 1.01.1980 on french tv.
Like the old saying goes , " You have to take the bad with the good " ...No matter how bad this holiday special is, it's part of Stars Wars history and it should be available to anyone who wants to watch it. I don't love it, but I kinda like it for what it is. Sometimes bad is good.
A long time ago, "The Christmas special" was regarded as a very bad Star Wars parody and it was so humiliating to watch. But that was before the dark times, before the Disney...after Disney took over, this looks like a long lost masterpiece.
It’s really excellent! The staging, the pacing, the blocking, the expanded lore, the special effects… but most of all, our beloved characters.
Lucas Losing his mind in the second three movies was far far worse.
OG trilogy is only good trilogy.
@@psyjax2 I’d add the prequel trilogy to the list too. If you can get past the sillier elements and see the deeper story underneath, it was a really a visionary work. The OG trilogy was a comparatively simple “hero’s journey” with added Jungian motifs, but still great obviously.
No, no it doesn't lol.
At last! But it still needs the deluxe treatment with trailers, extra features, commentary tracks, etc.
I and so many others appreciate the hard work that went into this. Thank you!
next Christmas eve, I'm gonna get baked and watch this.
Thank you for making this horror show look much better! I can watch the cringeworthy acting and awful wookies in glorious 4/5k ! Merry Christmas to the Fractic family have a splendid festive holiday !
Perifractic you've done a thorough resoration. I must have seen this at least 3 times over the past 40 years (I'm 46 now) , both on TV and more recently on the internet, and it's always seemed so "washed-out", like a cheap and old tv set showing a aerial signal from its "stick" antenna.
You've brought it up to what I guess must have been the quality of the original video tape used for broadcasting, which is a technical feat and sure took you some time.
12:12 Poor Lumpy’s like, “D’OH I NEVER GET TO TALK TO UNCLE LUKE!” 😂
this is the first time i saw anything star wars
HAAAAAAA My Christmas is complete now, thank you!
Yes, my like was nr. 1978...
Thank you very much for this wonderful christmas present. A piece of history everyone wanted to forget. But now we can enjoy it ourselves.
Merry christmas for you and your loved ones. And for everyone in the community.
You made me smile once again.
Thank you for polishing this turd so now I can see all the pieces of corn in high definition!
Definitely ahead of its time... I mean look at the 22:00 minute mark. Momma wookie is actually watching her cooking show on a 26" LCD monitor.
How DARE you try to improve on this spectacle of impeccable quality?!
Bless you, RetRec!! Unpopular opinion... While SWHS isn't a premium Star Wars episode, it was a perfectly watchable, and well above-average 90 minute variety show block for 1978. Anyone claiming they were traumatized either wasn't there, or are just trying to play along with the fact it looks cheesy today. In 1978 it was Star Wars on the TV, which was massive in itself. And if you compare it to an episode of Sonny and Cher or Hudson Brothers, it's freaking Citizen Kane!
100% agree. It was the only way we could see the Star Wars universe after "A New Hope" was in cinemas, and every kid in my school lapped it up. People loved variety shows back then, so this wasn't unusual to see at all. It's only now, decades later, that people are trashing it.
Just in time for Christmas! Thank you for the delightful present!
18:38 - I remember many children being frightened during the original airing of the Star Wars Holiday Special, believing that Darth Vader was coming to get them!
Looks pretty nice. I still have my original VHS recording I made when this aired. It's a good pal broadcast. I used to think about giving it to the guys that were stitching all the good copies together but never got around to it. Seems like they've found enough good copies without mine now anyway.
You are the hero we needed.
Cheesy holiday special but still fun to watch. I remember watching this religiously when I was a kid back in 1978. Everything all Star Wars.
I'm having PSTD from my youth watching this!
Fantastic work, thank you. Unfortunate that it had to have pieces cut due to UA-cam, I would love an uncut version; I'll have to splice together my VHS copy with this
Hope this stays up long enough for me to watch it. On second thought… maybe not?
Best star wars episode EVER.
Every image is so dense it needed the extra 1000 k's just to bring it to your screen!