https://www.swisstransfer.com/d/ecfa388f-7d3b-4f79-a92a-62b9c9f0420e
Muppet Show Promos restorations, posted here since Archive is down.Still looking for more sources for these. The FuzzyMemories sources are likely to be upgraded (and indeed the Vincent Price and Ben Vereen sources already have been). Parodied with Lenny the Lizard in the Steve Martin episode.https://archive.org/details/muppet-show-promos-compilation
This is the first time anyone has attempted to compile the circulating "Muppet Show" episode promos into one thing. If you have other copies of this material, or copies with interlacing, let me know. This edit runs almost 30 minutes and has some non-promo bonus content.
The two files have different contents, and have been newly restored. The clips earlier in each video have better sources, and the 50p video is better sourced. If the source file was 60p, 30p or 15p, it went into the 60p file. If the source file was 25p or 50p as intended, it went into the 50p file -- with motion estimation and restoration when necessary.
In all cases, the audio was noise reduced and normalized in Izotope RX.
The Phyllis Diller promo was damaged heavily and required heavy frame by frame restoration from a 50p source. Two DVD clips were also used, with EBSynth correction being done when needed.
https://archive.org/details/muppet-show-phyllis-diller-promo
The Liberace promo is unusual in that two different 25p Youtube sources were used, one lower quality, and then alternated between on every frame. Obvious differences between the two were filtered out as much as possible. This was a very strange edit to do. A DVD clip was also used, although the promo has some unaired footage in it. A transition between the two was recreated with frame animation.
An ITV promo 9 minutes into the 50p file was reedited from a version with the frames in the wrong order, frame estimation was used, and it was loosely colorized with Deepremaster.
The Wally Boag promo was from two 50p sources which were cleaned up frame by frame, with new transition animation, and one 30p source which was motion estimated to match.
The Florence Henderson promo was a 25p FlemishDog source which was noise reduced and dirt removed using automatic and manual processes. This is an old Betamax and Rhys has not, as of yet, been able to find the original with interlacing.
Nancy Walker was a Youtube source reedited to 25p, then motion estimated with the title graphics isolated and recreated. A DVD clip was also used. In all cases with DVD clips added, they are also used as reference to make the promo the correct size onscreen. (I have not bothered with the 30p Youtube stuff.)
Otherwise a fair amount of this is from genuine 50p sources, including Diana Ross, Brooke Shields, the John Cleese scene, World Puppetry (Statler and Waldorf), the editing machine/Guilt sketch .... some may have been edited down from 60p.
In the 60p file, most of this is motion estimated from 30p and 15p Youtube videos.
However, the Vincent Price and Ben Vereen promos are from 60p DVD/VHS video provided by Fuzzy Memories (Rick Klein). I have asked for copies of the other material shown here, which he will hopefully get round to eventually. The WTNH Starcade episodes most of this was sourced from have already been circulating elsewhere I believe, although later repeats on G4, Twitch and TBS are much more common (and irrelevant).
Melissa Manchester is also from a 60p DVD/VHS copy, with a 50p DVD/VHS-off-air clip inserted via Alex Taylor.
The Emmett Otter promo is via Cdcb/ Christian Bajusz but you'd have to ask him for an interlaced copy rather than what I used here.
Otherwise, if you have original interlaced sources for any of these Youtube-sourced clips, let me know.
I have also been going through original Muppet Show off-airs which I may or may not be able to share. That is the source for a few of the "new" rare clips here, and I would have thrown in a couple more if I was done restoring them yet.