 'A Night's Work' - Shadowrun Promo Film (1991), FASA-created Shadowrun Movie |
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 Sep 19 2007, 07:12 AM
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Moving Target  Group: Members Posts: 193 Joined: 5-January 06 From: Louisiana Member No.: 8,132  |
In 1991, FASA released a promotional VHS tape to comic/hobby shops across the United States. The video contained an ultra-low-budget short film entitled "Shadowrun: A Night's Work". To date it is the only known "official" Shadowrun film ever produced. It's tacky, slow-moving, and poorly acted -- but anyone who's a fan of Shadowrun will realize how valuable a find this recording is. Readers of the novels and Shadowrun history buffs will be thrilled to see fan-favorite Sally Tsu, elven mage and former Yakuza enforcer, in her first and only on-screen appearance.
Very few people even know this movie exists, let alone have seen it. When I first heard wind of it, I scoured Google in search of anything related to the movie...screenshots, audio snippets, maybe even a synopsis...and came up blank. But now the #S-Run Shadowrun Community is proud to bring it to fans everywhere! Go to www.s-run.com to download this small piece of Shadowrun history. You can also find other Shadowrun fan films there -- with English subtitling courtesy of #S-Run. Stay tuned for more flicks coming...including "Todesvision" and "Cat & M.I.C.E", with subtitling work currently underway on both fan films. Special thanks to Bjoern Fuhrmeister, who is responsible for the DVD transfer of this rarest-of-rare Shadowrun film. |
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Sep 19 2007, 07:30 AM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 6,640 Joined: 6-June 04 Member No.: 6,383 |
Wow. My bandwith is terrible but if I can get it I will.
If I had the courage to reach my full potential in the world instead of always holding myself back, I'd direct some Shadowrun porn. There'd be a porn actress portraying a lesbian ninja elf who wears Spock ears during the production. EDIT: Bah, 300 megs is not something I can easily do. Not tonight, anyway... |
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Sep 19 2007, 07:40 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 193 Joined: 5-January 06 From: Louisiana Member No.: 8,132 |
It'll be there in the morning, bro. =)
Besides, 300MB isn't bad for a DVD rip from a VHS master. |
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Sep 19 2007, 07:53 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 193 Joined: 5-January 06 From: Louisiana Member No.: 8,132 |
Also: There were some linkage issues within the first 15 or so minutes of posting. Anyone who got a 404 error when trying to download the movie won't have a problem anymore.
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Sep 19 2007, 11:20 AM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 6,748 Joined: 5-July 02 Member No.: 2,935 |
Cool. Thanks SuperFly.
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Sep 19 2007, 01:28 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 325 Joined: 9-December 06 From: the Maaatlock-Expressway! Member No.: 10,326 |
That is 16 Gigawatts of pure, uncut awesome!!!
Thanks for sharing! |
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Sep 19 2007, 03:49 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 1,755 Joined: 5-September 06 From: UCAS Member No.: 9,313 |
What you using to view the file? .bup Not supported by any of my video progs?
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Sep 19 2007, 03:53 PM
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Genuine Artificial Intelligence Group: Members Posts: 4,019 Joined: 12-June 03 Member No.: 4,715 |
VLC media player seems to be handling it just fine.
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Sep 19 2007, 03:58 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 1,755 Joined: 5-September 06 From: UCAS Member No.: 9,313 |
Got it.
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Sep 19 2007, 04:15 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 1,755 Joined: 5-September 06 From: UCAS Member No.: 9,313 |
Wow it was like going back in time and watching Cinemax err I mean staying up late and watching Cinemax. Honestly reminded me of when vhs first came out and all low budget wanna be action movies were on the shelf.
Matrix stuff was interesting some of imagery was used as still photos for some of sourcebooks if I'm not mistaken. |
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Sep 19 2007, 07:17 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 194 Joined: 30-August 07 Member No.: 12,989 |
Thank you for this one. Good stuff.
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Sep 20 2007, 12:50 AM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 6,640 Joined: 6-June 04 Member No.: 6,383 |
Ha ha, started the download. I hope I don't cause any trouble re the office bandwidth and theoretical bandwidth cap...
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Sep 20 2007, 02:39 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,379 Joined: 16-April 02 From: the LI shadows Member No.: 2,607 |
If this is what I think it is, I saw it when Tom Dowd made a rare appearance, when he arrived at ICON & did his SR/BT promotional. I'll wait until someone posts it on YouTube.
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Sep 20 2007, 03:07 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 193 Joined: 5-January 06 From: Louisiana Member No.: 8,132 |
Yeah, for anyone having trouble with the file, it's just a straight DVD rip. you can burn the folders onto a disc and play it in any DVD player that supports DVD +/- R.
Use any standard video program to view it (WMP, PowerDVD, WinDVD, etc etc etc). |
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Sep 20 2007, 08:08 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 831 Joined: 5-September 05 From: LAX, UCAS Member No.: 7,687 |
Thank you Superfly! *worship* :love:
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Sep 20 2007, 03:04 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,532 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Calgary, Canada Member No.: 769 |
That is the most awsome peice of cinema ever put to film!
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Sep 21 2007, 12:19 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 647 Joined: 9-September 03 From: Sorø, Denmark Member No.: 5,604 |
I like it, but I'm not so sure it would attract a lot of players to SR these days.
It's also real cool to see some more of the VR icons from the Virtual Realities book. Lars |
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Sep 22 2007, 12:59 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 124 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 1,812 |
That would scare the bejesus out of me if I didn't already know all about Shadowrun and was used to 'influence' me into playing the game. It is quite frankly the most horrible, most disgustingly trashy crap I have had the misfortune of watching since I got drunk and watched six movies in my Steven Seagal collection back to back without fast-forwarding once.
Well done for finding this. |
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Sep 22 2007, 01:22 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 831 Joined: 5-September 05 From: LAX, UCAS Member No.: 7,687 |
Yah - now that I finally get to watch it tis.....campy......is the most polite thing I can say :eek: :D Still rather amusing and cool to have for the collection though.
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Sep 22 2007, 09:21 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 193 Joined: 5-January 06 From: Louisiana Member No.: 8,132 |
It's value isn't so much based on its coolness factor than the fact of just what it is...The only official Shadowrun film ever recorded. I believe any true fan should at least see it once...Just think, Shadowrunners world wide now have their own 'Star Wars Holiday Special'! =D
Personally, I think Tor3 is the best Shadowrun film created to date. |
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Sep 23 2007, 12:21 AM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 6,640 Joined: 6-June 04 Member No.: 6,383 |
Superfly, you've delivered unto the the distilled essence of a happy life. All that I really need is to sip some wine and watch that in an endless loop. What else could possibly matter afterwards?
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Sep 23 2007, 12:57 AM
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Immortal Elf Group: Members Posts: 11,410 Joined: 1-October 03 From: Pittsburgh Member No.: 5,670 |
every time i see this thread, i think "what? oh, promo."
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Sep 23 2007, 05:35 AM
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Old Man Jones Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 4,415 Joined: 26-February 02 From: New York Member No.: 1,699 |
You should be able to re-name the big file ("VTS_01_1.VOB") to "filename.mpg" and play it that way. -karma |
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Sep 23 2007, 06:02 AM
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Midnight Toker Group: Members Posts: 7,686 Joined: 4-July 04 From: Zombie Drop Bear Santa's Workshop Member No.: 6,456 |
Or just convert it to a 900kbps xvid with 120kpbs kbps MP3 audio in an avi container using any one of several open source conversion tools. That also has the advantage of droping th efile size down to around 40MB
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Sep 26 2007, 01:14 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 1,755 Joined: 5-September 06 From: UCAS Member No.: 9,313 |
S-Run link no longer working? Went to show somwone Tor3 and a nights work and hasnt been working for few days now? Keep getting a map page.
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