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- This is the Ken Films Super 8 home movie version of The Empire Strikes Back. It is in color and has sound. It was originally two separate reels. They are edited together here.
Ken Films was located in Fort Lee, New Jersey and for awhile, they were the most prolific company. They secured large contracts with major distributors in the retail market, (for instance K-mart), while many of the other companies were limited to camera stores or direct mail order.
In 1973, Ken signed a deal with Paramount to release a large number of 200’ and 50’ silent versions of some of their most popular features, starting with two parters of “The Greatest Show on Earth”, “The Ten Commandments” and “Samson & Delilah”.
Ken Films made the big jump into color and sound in 1974 with 200’ versions of all 5 “Planet of the Apes” movies. That deal with 20th Century Fox resulted in a staggering amount of 400’ releases in early 1975, starting with “The Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre”. Ken also put out a large number of 200’ color/sound American International product during this period.
The highlight of the Ken Films story (and package movie history in general) has to be the Ken release of the 200’ color and sound “Star Wars” while the film was still playing in theaters!
In 1978, Ken and MGM came to an agreement for Ken to distribute selections from MGM’s vast library, starting with “Dr. Zhivago”. This title, along with a number of others, was later released in 3x400’. American International also got the 400’ clamshell case treatment and in the case of “Meteor”, a 3x400’ release.
“The Empire Strikes Back” (Part two) was Ken Film’s last 400’ non-MGM title. Ken released feature length prints into the early 1980's including “The French Connection”, “Casablanca”, “Gone With The Wind”, “Singin' In The Rain” and “2001: A Space Odyssey”. They also distributed the ABC line of features. In the mid 1980’s Bob Lane brought Ken Films to an end, with Derann receiving many of the Ken’s feature negatives.
As much as people talk about wanting these films to be released on Blue Ray at 4k resolution - seeing this takes me back to 1980 more than anything else..
People who weren't there at the time will never truly know how great that era was when these films were coming out. Really grateful to have been a kid through the whole thing.
Yes, and the poor image quality actually makes it look more realistic than all those digitally enhanced versions..
I totally agree with you
Idiot, doesn’t understand that rescanning Small grain film at higher resolutions naturally yields better picture quality. No digital enhancements are needed. It’s just disny and lucas showing off their CGI and bastardizing a classic film
thats why i always say that no matter how big a fan these millenials and gen z ers claim to be who have you tube channels about everything star wars they can never understand or have the connection to these movies that all us gen x kids have
If you had both reels and a good screen you were the king at a 10 year old's party back in the day.
I bet!
That's exactly how I watched it the first time.
I owned have these as a kid. Everyone came round to watch it on a 48" screen. I have no idea what became of the reels. Used to play them on our Agfa projector.
So THIS was basically home video before vcr's?
@@ianfindly3257
Yes,
Super 8 was pure magic!
These reels used to completely mezmerise me as a kid. Like "Wow, omg, you can OWN a movie?!?"
Lol. That’s a perspective I’ve never thought about and it’s quite silly compared to today’s standards. Thank you for sharing.
heh
For them to tell almost the whole story minus a few spoilers in 30 minutes is quite impressive.
Impressive...Most impressive ;)
Pray that I don't alter it any Further ?
That chase scene in the asteroid field must have melted people's minds the first time in theaters.
yup it sure did
I got vertigo watching it, and clutched the arms of my seat.
It was great, but I mean, "2001" was released in 1968 - "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" was 2 years before "Empire", so it's not like there weren't already great special effects in movies or anything - but the SW films were definitely the cutting edge, yeah.
it certainly did.
It did us I still love watching it. Han was welding that falcon with twists and turns no other ships could do that back then.
I returned to my hometown a few months back and was thrilled to find this playing at one of the local theaters. The pandemic discount got me the movie, candy, and large soda for $14 lol.
nice
And an extra case of Corona 😸
It was actually the number one movie at the box office last summer for 2 weeks.......no joke
That’s awesome
It’s a testament to the choices made at the time how well this stands up in 8mm form, so much strong light and shade, nice colour contrasts, lovely. I imagine if Solo was in 8mm, it’d be like watching a dark mush half the time.
Now THIS is the special edition I'm looking for
This is great stuff....a hardcore Original Triolgy fan would appreciate this.
This was actually taken from a 70mm version.
@@ryan9990 ahhha
I don’t get what it is. Can someone explain?
@@thebacons5943 Before VHS you could buy these film edits on Reel to Reel. You used a film projector to play them.
@@thebacons5943 imagine homes with no Internet, no cell phones, no computers, no DVD players, etc. The only way to watch anything was broadcast TV, which was 2 to 5 channels. Your only hope of watching Star Wars movies was if a local theater played them or TV aired them. Or if you had a projector and these films reels.
I used to work in local cinema mid 70s,remember picking the films up in steel cases, helping thread the reel on the two projectors and watching for the change over Mark on the screen, great times.
Iam really impressed to watch this super 8 version of empire strikes back, would of loved to have seen this one on the big screen back in the day too.
.... Drive ins and my little brother crying because chewbacca scared him. Taun taun toys.
Had the cassette tape of this and played it until it wore out. This brings back so many awesome memories!
Even at this quality, it is better than the Special Edition.
Agreed.
AshKnightable lolno but in exchange for the unaltered version of ESB you get him.
Exactly
The colour its still amazing👍👍👍
The Special Edition of ESB has the least annoying changes of the trilogy BY A MILE!
Wow, the "Star Wars" release must be what I saw at the house of a friend of my parents all those years ago - a few months after I'd originally seen it in the cinema. As a 8 year old I remember being confused how I could be watching it in this guys home. Don't remember it being a digest, but I was probably just blown away at seeing the film again.
I am a Japanese SW fan, and got these reels 40 years ago (I was 13years old).
This movie reminds me of my younger days and found that many American SW fans enjoyed them at the same days.
Thank you so much for this upload!
@Louie Budgie Hello, and thanks!
It is nice to see the "original" Emperor, voice of Boba Fett, and Sebastian Stan as Luke!!! Just kidding about the Luke part! The sound quality is amazing too!
Sebastian Stan, Billie Lourd, Donald Glover, and the kid who played Han in Solo A Star Wars Story. Let's do this, Lucasfilm and Disney.
Yes we thought do as well also hated the Hayden Christisen as Anikan version ending in ROTJ
This is fantastic! Thanks for sharing. Seems like the super 8 version used different takes from the theatrical release. For example 13:23-13:27, the line deliveries are different in the theatrical versions. Leia sounds more scared than concerned and Han's "watch this" sounds cockier. If that's possible.
Yeah, those two lines definitely sound like different takes.
The relevance is that there was a time period, when there was only three networks, a smatter of UHF channels and the only way to enjoy these vintage home movies, was buying these digest version of the feature films! While it would be still YEARS (until the mid 80's or later) until people could actually enjoy these films on thier TV's, super 8 collectors could enjoy them as of the year that they came out and, as one of the people stated in these posts, this fellow appears to be lucky to have a good color print, now almost 40 years after this digest came out.
They had VCR’s and Betamaxes in the early 80’s
@@Dman425 I was going to say the same!
Also, it wasn't THAT long before Star Wars debuted on pay for TV and HBO -- those were both by 1982 and 1983 (winter). The official "free" network premiere of Star Wars was on CBS in 1983.
Sure, VHS players and video rental did not explode until later in the 1980s but rentals and purchases of pre-recorded VHS (at higher prices than much later) still existed prior to 1985.
All the Classic Trilogy films were out on home media (VHS, laserdisc, and videodisc while that was around) by 1986. The "free" network airings of the original trilogy were disasters in ratings; I think by the time they aired, the films were played out for popularity in the original era (1977-1986). By the time the Star Wars films showed on CBS and NBC (I don't think ABC played any of them in the 1980s; Star Wars was on CBS and I think the other 2 played on NBC), people had already done the pay per view (yes, that existed back in the early 1980s!) route, HBO, VHS if they were available, or bootlegged them (VERY common)!
@gecko 1968 $700?!? Unreal! They'd never get away selling a player that expensive now! They can't even push 4K Blu ray players that cost $250 US out of showrooms and I've been wanting to get one for a few years now. That $700 Australian in 1982 is equivalent to $2700 (Australian, not American; I checked with an online inflation adjustor) today. Shows how much the value of money's fallen!
@gecko 1968 The first VCR my parents bought was a top-loading VHS model I think. I could be wrong...
That machine didn't seem to last for long. Seem to be pretty fragile and it didn't survive me and my siblings!
I still have my own VCR bought in the mid-1990s. I haven't used it in years but still have pre-recorded tapes with programs never re-released on DVD or Blu ray plus at least 2 partially blank tapes.
I haven't seen blank tapes in stores for years now but clam shell pre-recorded (Disney titles and others) seem to be collectible again. Some of the used bookstores (and or course online) still trade in used or shrinkwrapped tapes. To be honest, I NEVER liked owning VHS and preferred disc.
I'd NEVER go back to tape. Digital media is much better but I think it's a mistake to dump all physical media in favor of streaming. They've been censoring films and TV shows on streaming for years now and most people seem to be ignorant and accepting of that.
Effects like the tauntaun look really good in this :) We had some super 8 but nothing this current to the time :)
Making things look worse leads to them looking better, and making them look too good can make them look worse. Funny how that goes in cinema.
I remember drooling over the original 8mm Star Wars version in the back of the Famous Monsters magazine when I was 10 years old. Would have killed to have that even though we didn't own a 8mm projector. Lol!
It’s hard to appreciate how amazing this would have been to have this back in the day 👌
Great price of edit work for a 2 hour film of Star Wars TESB. kept me at the edge of my seat. Wonderful video Thank you for take me back feeling.
33:33 never went by so fast. I'm surprised this hasn't been struck down by TH-cam. Of course if that happens, it will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.
I see what you did there😂
When I dream about a great Star Wars video boxset, this is the kind of thing I absolutely want in the special features section. Unfortunately, it will more than likely be forgotten by all but the hardcore fans and trivia weirdos (like me) who scour the internet.
This would've been an awesome bonus feature!!
Incredible.
A worn out Super 8 of ESB is better than The Last Jedi.
And rise of skywalker and woke mando
Unfortunately...yes.
Watching grass grow is better than anything in the sequel trilogy. 😠
i still have the original theatrical cut of the trilogy on laserdisc... transferred it professionally digitally in 2015, was pretty costly but its awesome on our 20x15' home theatre! still wont compare to my experience seeing sw in 1977. :)
I also own the SW Trilogy on Laserdisc, with hardcover book and everything. Special deluxe edition release. And, I too was also lucky enough to have seen the original SW in theaters in 1977. Astonishing, still! Was your theater custom built/installed? Cheers.
@@zenpaganwarrior cool! yeah when we built our home from the ground up, we had the theatre in mind detached from the house but connected by a 40' tunnel just below ground level that is only accessed through the basment. from the outside it looks like a laneway home but without doors.
Was your laserdisc presentation widescreen ?
@@radrich4873 i have 3 versions:
1.
CBS/FOX Special Collection Set (1986, 1987 CAV Laserdisc Release /Japan Only Release)
2.
CBS/FOX Video Special WS Edition Set (1989 and 1990, CLV Laserdisc Release)
3.
The Definitive Collector’s Edition Set (1993, CAV Laserdisc Release, THX Mastered)
@@classified77 interesting! thanks for the info
I remember our grade 1 classroom visited the public library and brought out the projector to show us Superman. We all sat cross-legged on the floor and were extremely excited at seeing this huge film for free! When they played it however, I realized that there were many scenes missing, causing lots of confusion and it was a bit of a letdown. Still, it was certainly better than spending a day in the classroom!
I had part one, didn't have a sound projector for a few years after buying it through the mail. It was pretty awesome having real reel film. Think sold mine on ebay 20 years ago. Thanks for sharing!
I wonder if this edit makes sense to anyone that hasn’t watched it. it does to us because we know the original cut like the back of our hands. Good upload mate. I’d never heard of this until now.
>Half hour edit of the film
>Takes 7 minutes to even get to Hoth battle
Who edited this, Rian Johnson???
If roundhead Rian cut this, the entire thing would have been the Rebel transport slowly escaping.
They cut out the big reveal!
@@trevormoses5061 As far as I remember, it had "LUKE I AM YOUR FATHER!!' NOOOOOO!!
"No, I am your father." He doesn't say 'Luke.'
This is awesome, it's a jewel! This is better than new editions.
The Millennium Falcon, I love it 😍😍😍
99% of the Cloud City sequence is un-used footage takes not in the final cuts. The more I watched this Reel, the more I realized, there is more than just a few words, sounds effects added...the scenes are not the same. We are quite possibly enjoying the majority of this with cuts practice scenes, that is why so much is different. These are not realized movie cuts, this is something more special and rare. This is what we *haven't* seen over and over, that's why scene after scene stands out to me as different, because it is, because they are. I have the original Box Set Trilogy on VHS. I've seen it more times I can count. I have special memory accommodations in my head. These Reels are not a part of my VHS experience scene experiences. This is amazing. Thank You.
Both reels were out of order. I edited them back in the day so it could be projected correctly for everyone. But this was the only way to watch this movie back when you could not buy it. This was the same case for the original Star Wars as well. That also came in 2 reels.
At this point, this is for people who could appreciate it back in that time... almost 40 years ago. Wow!
Wow! Grindhouse Star Wars!!! With film scratches!!
Remember going with a cassette tape recorder to the cinema, just to get the sound....
I owned a Sony Handicap and used to tape the movie. However, you couldn't avoid the screen flicker due to the 24fps/25fps PAL system. Plus sound had an echo
Yeah, I done that with A New Hope, it was amazing to go to sleep listening to Star Wars every night, i also went to the theatre every night for week when it opened, i was really blown away by it, the story, the graphics and the special effects.
I used to do that with my favorite TV shows before VHS
Yeah right, kid...I'm sure you walked into the theatre with a giant boom box on your shoulder recording Empire. I call bull shit.
@@Markos581973 boombox? There were small portable recorders back then, you simp 😂
I have this version on 8mm and I'm impressed by the cut. The only thing I don't like is the Darth Vader 'I am your father' scene is omitted. When my kids were young, this film and Star Wars on my projector kept them entertained.
So so so cool!!!! It’s differently awesome to see the movie in such a short cut and the pace is amazing. Nothing even seems disjointed. Just awesome. :)
Wow! This condensed movie hid the main plot twist! This encourages people who have not seen the actual movie ...to really watch the entire two hours and see the film in all its glory!
FINALLY! Someone who gets it!!! Too many people on here bitching about how the father scene is out. Finally someone who understands how marketing works. Thank you!
I owned the first reel before empire hit the cinemas here in the Netherlands. This was indeed the only way of seeing/owning these movies in your own home. Thanx for uploading!
I realize this is an edit of the whole film, but they cut out the, "I am your father scene". WTF? Possibily the most pivotal scene in the whole saga.
That was the biggest scene in the film. They didn't want to give it away to the people that would only buy this digest version. You had to go to the film in the theater to get that. It's pure marketing.
Back in the days, it was not. Noone gave a shit about Star Wars until the 80s. I have Alien on Super-8, just one reel. Yeah, the "iconic" facehugger scene is not really in it.
Dude, spoiler alert! ;)
@@AmstradExin I have Alien digest too... but I think facehugger scene is in there. But maybe wierd-cutted like this star wars (I also have, both reels). I purchased many digest via ebay years ago. Must say, I have quite rare things too. Three-reel Star Trek: The Motion picture, whole film Poltergeist (both good color). Interesting this copy of Empire strikes back has so good color. Mine is very red :)
Possibly because it was still in theaters and was intended to prevent spoilers?
This is so cool , how come the empire has not locked on to our signal and taken down this video for copy..right..beep beep beep ...
A New Hope was always on TV at Xmas, I saw ROTJ on pirate VHS until the tape wore out, watched Empire Strikes Back years later knowing all the spoilers but I still enjoyed it the most
My mate used to have bits of episode 4 on 8mm, silent and black and white, it was all he could afford, used to watch it on his bedroom wall, back in the day before VCR's and laser disc, my kids don't know how lucky they are, DVD, Disney +,Netflix etc.
My dad had a super 8 of Episode IV, and it was only the Falcon escape of the Death Star, best 5 mins to have at the time...
We used to have this and many other super 8 sound films back in the day. We converted a room into a small theater and people around the neighborhood would come over to watch movies before VCR's were reasonably available.
This is the first I’ve ever heard of a digest reel
there were MOVIE BOOKS available as well as records 45rpm as well as cassette tape story's (which kept my kids happy traveling in the car.) Thankfully we still own them, and my grandkids can enjoy😊
I forgot them. Thank you so much. I rember them from grade school.
THANK YOU FOR THIS!
That dazzling strip running along bottom of Darth's cape is everything.
@32:23 in video. AbFab, baby!
Boy, does this bring back memories! We snuck this into the projection at OAF Con 1981 as a special treat. Lot of excitement that day.
Soy de Córdoba y esta película la alquilaba para verla en mi proyector Super 8. Hoy a mis 58 años la reencuentro gracias por subirla cuantos recuerdos
With all due respect! Even at this grainy level! There is this strange satisfactory nostalgia about this analogue format which the now digital revolution can not justify its presence to an audience who knows what the world of motion picture industry is all about! A fan and an admirer from Pakistan!
Seriously enjoyed watching that, considering buying a copy myself!
Oh yeah I remember these...before the days of beta and vhs tapes....they were rare...thanks for posting!
👍
Funny that they ditched the iconic crawl! Very cool to see this version! Thank for sharing this!
I have the first reel. But I haven't run it in years. This was fantastic to see it again. Brought back a lot of memories. Thanks!
Color is great. I still have a projector and some films. Fun to watch 🎥
Fantastic. I feel like I have just watched the whole movie in about 30 minutes.
Interesting edit - what they took out to move the story along.
Never knew this version existed, although I do recall seeing a similar version of Star Wars back in the day at a film night.
My parents rented a projector and this film for my 6th or 7th birthday party. It was a hit! So cool to stumble across this.
I remember being in hospital when i was six or seven and a guy came into the children's ward to show some super 8's to us. We could pick one each & me being a massive Star Wars fan chose The Empire Strikes Back.
better than GEORGE LUCAS' 90's reissues.
Amen 👏
Absolutely love the original!
Awesome upload man, super enjoyable video, loved 🥰 it lots. 😎👍👍👍🇬🇧🎥
Grainy, like my memory...
I know this is Super 8 but it's the closest I've been to seeing Vader take up the entire screen again. Almost exactly how I remembered watching it at home on our CRT's in the 80's & early 90's.
8mm ; the VHS of it's day
THIS...THIS IS...just incredible. I wish the Han in carbonite scene was in the vid though.
I like how when Yoda says, "Old friends long gone." He knows he's talking about himself.
It's almost like this is how the movies should be. Short, action packed and zero exposition, just like the old serials that inspired Star Wars in the first place.
Imagine if this was how Star Wars was brought to the theaters instead of as 2 hour epics. I'd go every couple of months if that's how it were done.
Had me on the end of my seat. I wanted more.
“So nice to be together again” never heard that little line of dialogue! 28:01
Han: "I'm coming back".
Watch Building Empire, and it has the alternate audio with the 70mm theatrical. Quite a well made fan edit/documentary.
Man it's nice to have this. I appreciate it. I had what must have been among the first movie house bootleg Betamax tapes and it was ESB. I can still remember when the tape lost tracking or was scratched and it fizzed out at a certain place.
My father was an FBI agent and around 1981 he took 12 year old me to his office after work hours to get some extra things done, and he put a confiscated Betamax tape of The Empire Strikes Back in the player they had there for viewing evidence.
I thought that was the coolest thing ever. I remember being amazed that it was even possible to see a movie that new on a television. Of course it was probably a crappy camcorder copy filmed in an empty theater because I remember the picture was good and the sound was terrible. It was probably the same version you had.
6 years old when I saw this in the theater..I was on cloud 9, 10 and 11
I was 5. It was great!
5 as well👍
This is pretty freakin' cool. I have never seen this cut of the film before
Never seen this version bevor , this is awesome
This is a rare opportunity to make a Super 8 film with sound. Few other countries besides the US have released such films, most of them were without sound...
This is amazing but cutting the "I am your father" line is egregious
I was remembering that back in the day, I paid 25 cents at my catholic elementary school to see this. We were collecting monies for some charity. Great memories🙂
Screened them at the library for my friends as a birthday party! That was living!
They had this at my local public library.....it didn't cost anything to borrow....even the projector! I swear their version was on 3 reels...... but you could only borrow 2 reels at a time.....they never had more then 1 reel of this movie in at any time that I was there. I'm not even sure I ever got to take out all three of them. I know that I got the first reel at least twice..... and then saw it again at a birthday party down the street of course!
Glad to see I wasnt the only one without " I am your father" figured some clever splicer got into my reel and took it out. Thanks again for the upload.
I remember watching this, on my mother's super 8 projector. It was back in 1981. I was 10.
Now that’s The Real Star Wars! Miss this !
when star wars was fun and exciting
A big reason for that was that the characters were interesting and the audience actually cared about them.
DEFINATELY!
Fantastic. I remember these being advertised in the Star Wars comic..never knew the condensed version would work this good. In my hometown on the market,they had a guy who sold old tech (this was late 80’ until mid 2000’) and he had tons of super 8 movies,including this and the other two Star Wars movies from time to time... thing was he sold them at stupid price’s. in 80’ he wanted £100 for each movie and £200+ for a projector. Our wages back then were shite,so never had enough after bills and stuff..plus the girlfriend at the time would of gone crazy if I’d bought them.😤😡
didn't know this existed. Thanks for sharing.
28:42 Imagine this: It's the 1980's, you hadn't seen The Empire Strikes Back, but your friend had and has a copy of the Super 8 release, and they show it to you. You find a lot of the scenes cool, but the plot doesn't seem to amount to much.
I found it interesting to see if they would be able to end up with a comprehensible story in half an hour. I would say they mostly succeeded. It's a 'best bits' version that still sort of makes sense. In several cases I was surprised how well they got away with skipping things. I found one scene that was flipped around and I was surprised they left out the 'I am your father' reveal. Perhaps that was a condition to release this?
They also hid the fact that Luke loses his hand.
There were a few audio bits that were different from the versions we know today. Leia sort of trips over her lines here in 13:23 in a way that's actually pretty cool and natural; too bad they replaced that later.
And I really liked how Han cuts off the cloud car pilot when he tries to warn him again not to deviate his course at 21:45 here.
Nice salvage, this. I wouldn't even have expected that Empire would have been released like this. I had a pirate copy of Star Wars on VHS before Empire even came out, so this must really have been the swan song of this medium.
This is fascinating and an amazing keepsake.
I remember these kind of shorts. Nothing modern mind you. But Super 8 reels of old films like "Bridge on the River Kwai" and "We're No Angels". Couple of Loony Tues/Merrie Melodies too. Alas, the ones we had were silent.
Thank you so much, dartman71. So much nostalgia. You have a new subscriber. 😊
YES INDEED I Super enjoyed watching it it is part of my Favourite TH-cam list.
Back in 1980, I saved hundreds of $ as a paperboy to buy a nice projector with magnetic sound. I had reel 1 of Empire Strikes Back, but could never find the second reel for sale. Neighbors had a brand-new Betamax which cost more than $800 in those days, but few films were available on video then. Nice to finally see how the second reel was edited. Did they release Jedi in the super 8 format?
On no its not 44K or what ever......It looks very realistic this way ,like somebody was there and shot this in reel-time with a 8MM hand-cam !
Thank you for uploading this little jewel of Historic cult !
Regards kenneth John The Netherlands
😀 I cam remember how giddy we kids were at birthday parties anywhere around '78-81 when these would be shown...any bits and pieces would please us to no end, whether Star Wars or Superman. It was like the Holy Grail was found!
Everyone laughed at me when I said Super 8 was better than VCR.
Who’s laughing now?!
This.
No one. Laughter is now forbidden. Walk softly Santa, and tred not into tiktok.
Well super 8 was also a portable equivalent to vhs-c but made by sony. It's not as good as a standard vhs tape because of its size so I guess not you
VCR's were already around by this time, but I think they were still pretty expensive. But the price of film stock went up in the early 80s, so I wonder how many people were buying these.
VCRs cost over $1000 in 1980.
My Father found a good deal on one in 1983, and I used it until 1996, when I finally bought another(cheap)one.
This was the end of the super 8 era. In fact, this was the last release from Ken Films which was a giant in the field.
You may know this, but you should freeze Super 8 film in a seal case in the freezer to persevere them. - They would last generations.
Just like they did to Han Solo.
This is interesting to me. I nice little version of the film.
Oh they cut the twits, making the scene completely different. Imagine if this was the first version you saw.
Great entertaining movie.
The quality of super 8 holds up better than DVDs and Blue rays...this has a such a solid feel to it, it feels real...reel.
I love it! Thanks for sharing.
i only had the first reel - this is awesome!