The Jumpiest Tape · 3:16pm Dec 12th, 2016
From what I can gather, releases of Touchstone films on home video in Argentina were handled by a company called Gativideo, the same one that issued Disney tapes there, and a company that apparently issued other films and shows on home media from many different distributors. According to IMDb, they quit distributing in 2009.
Newly contributed are a few openings posted by YouTuber Canal de iviarko, with editing galore!
(Compliment to similar blog posted by Kyle Ostrum. I will carry that one over here if this one is a success.)
Invariably, most headphone users may wish to turn up or turn down their volume.
[This tape begins] with a card that plays out like an EBS test, complete with an unpleasant loud noise too. Anyways, this screen abruptly cuts to the very surreal Gativideo-Legal Video logo, but the transition between that and what I presume is an anti-piracy warning screen is kind of choppy. Also, get a load of that nice elevator muzak. Then boom, jump cut back to the thunder-and-fire logo. (Seriously, it's the same logo played twice!)
Of the three trailers on this tape:
- THE COLOR OF MONEY trailer plays only for a minute and 10 seconds (opening of that trailer is butchered especially at the mention of the filmmaker's name (Martin Scoresays?); subtitles notwithstanding) before cutting into the (replayed) Touchstone Home Video logo.
- RUTHLESS PEOPLE'S trailer undergoes similar butchering and sloppy subtitling to boot. Seriously! Legal Video apparently can't even give Danny DeVito time to finish the line he utters at the end of it because during the amount of time he has to say that line, they have to cue the Touchstone Home Video logo again!
- Only the Splash trailer (if you'll excuse the subtitles) seems to be played in full, but that doesn't say much.
Transition between the warning and Legal Video screen on this one is about as gradual as last time, but at least they don't have to cue their own logo again on here. Instead the warning (choppily) cuts to the Touchstone Home Video logo, which itself (just as awkwardly) cuts to the lone trailer on this tape (for the 1988 version of D.O.A.) Although the trailer isn't badly butchered this time, the dubbing is so poor that you can hear the original trailer's audio bleed right through it, even if you have headphones on. Then we have a (smooth) transition into the Touchstone Home Video logo.
Awkward jump-cut from what I assume is a preview screen to a trailer for AN INNOCENT MAN is on this tape, and some of the (English) audio seems to fade in from the (Argentinan) announcer's comments. SERIOUSLY! WATCH IT!!! Anyway, this then goes to the Gativideo logo, which (for a few seconds at least) seems to be invariably warped.
