MST3K S09E06 The Space Children restored 480p.10bit.DVDRip.x265-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, Sci-Fi
Air date
June 13, 1998
Short included
Mike and the bots riff "Century 21 Calling" before the feature.
Restoration notes
jocksinclair created the restoration, and wrote:
As you may be aware, there are (currently) 11 episodes of "Mystery Science Theater 3000" with no official DVD release. The purpose of this project is to produce the best possible copies of these episodes and then try to distribute them widely amongst the fanbase. This will be a long-term project; not every episode is completed yet, and some will take longer than others. I've got a line on some other sources, but of course shipping is limited right now. So far, my patience has been rewarded here, so I'm not going to commit to any schedule for more of these. They will be all be done in their own unique timeframe. However, as Shout has recently shot down all the fan rumors about a Volume 40, I feel comfortable releasing this one, which I was holding back in the hope that it would get an official release.
906 "The Space Children" is one of three unreleased episodes which are owned by Paramount but currently licensed to Olive Films. It's potentially possible that someday, this trio will get released, but as of now, there is nothing pending.
The DAP version of this episode is one of their best recordings. As a base, with a little cleanup, it proves to be quite pleasing to the eye. User CDCB uploading a recording here a few years ago; this recording was very good -- it would've been a perfectly satisfactory base. The nice thing was, their "Sci Fi Channel" bugs were in two different places. Most of the bug is on the seats, which is very easy to remove, but in this case, a little bit spills out into the picture, so I used CD's copy to cover the bug in the DAP copy. Between the two, with some work, I was able to achieve 100% bug removal. So many big thanks to CDCB for granting me permission to use his copy as part of this; without him, you'd see remants of the bug. After a little color correction, and cleaning up a few small video hits, the theater segments were done.
Host segments are sourced from the "Satellite Dishes" discs. Unfortunately, Shout added fades to this footage, so bits had to be reconstructed (an additional source, from archive.org, was used at least once here). The only flaw I see in this reconstruction is one of those fade fixes, the color doesn't work as well as the other ones.
This episode also includes the short "Century 21 Calling", which is a bonus feature on DVD set volume 7. I used Rhino's copy, which similarly had an added fade-in which needed to be cleaned up. Being honest, when I checked it just now, I couldn't spot the transition for sure. I think I know where it is, but not totally sure.
Other recurring footage is sourced from Rhino discs, I don't remember which one off-hand (I'll update if I still have the info somewhere), but I know I used Rhino because the master tends to be in better shape (though this is less of an issue with SciFi era episodes). SciFi just has the one boring globe bumper anyway, so it's really just a question of making sure you use the correct opening credits, which change periodically.
Audio is just cleaned up DAP. Chapters have been added based on commercial breaks and theater transitions.
I think this should fit on a DVD if you want.
I'd like this to be freely spread widely among fans everywhere. KEEP CIRCULATING THE TAPES. But don't profit off of it.
I often prefer to keep things exclusive to Myspleen for community purposes, but I consider this to be more important than that, and I encourage people to post it anywhere that it will be appreciated and share copies with any fans that might enjoy it.
Encoding info
Encoded by budgetbits from restored version by jocksinclair, with HandBrake 1.3.3, slower preset, x265, 10 bit, crf 22, sao/strong-intra-smoothing/rect disabled.
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POSTER
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SCREENSHOTS
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MEDIAINFO
General
Filename = MST3K S09E06 The Space Children restored 480p.10bit.DVDRip.x265-jocksinclair-budgetbits.mkv
Duration = 1 h 31 min
Size = 493 MiB
Overall bit rate = 751 kb/s
Video #0
Format = HEVC x265 - 3.2.1+1-b5c86a64bbbe:[Linux][GCC 9.3.0][64 bit] 10bit
Resolution = 720x480
Aspect ratio = 4:3 (1.364)
Bit rate = 678 kb/s
Frame rate = 29.029 FPS
Audio #0
Title = Stereo
Format = Opus
Channels = 2 channels
Bit rate = 68.7 kb/s
Sampling rate = 48.0 kHz
Language = English
