"Superman: The Movie" WCI Home Video condensed end credits

WCI Home Video released "Superman: The Movie" on video cassette with condensed end credits in 1980.

This is what the condensed end credits looked like.

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[RedTailedTuna]

WHAT A KNOB YOU ARE

[Watcher3223]

@RedTailedTuna

A knob? What are you talking about? If that's an insult, I'm insulted you think that would be a good insult.

Hope you enjoy reading responses to your lame attempt at harassment with no way to reply to them. You've been blocked.

[eyeh8nbc]

Just checked the end of my 1979 tape and it's like this. It didn't have the card inside, but it does have a neat catalog of titles inside that says "You've opened your home to the most exciting entertainment experience of the 80's."

How did you get this to digitize without a rolling picture? This tape uses the old "Stop-Copy" system and the tapes I have with this will not run through my DVD recorder without splitting down the center and my HDTV does too if the VCR is run through the receiver.

[Watcher3223]

@eyeh8nbc

I just used a computer video capture device and that was it.

What I had was itself a copy of an original WCI Home Video product, so it's possible whomever made that copy in the past may have done something to defeat the copy protection (assuming there was one present in the original used to make the copy I had).

[timetravelhyman88]

good video because the complete end credits did not used until 1983.

[Watcher3223]

@timetravelhyman88

For video cassette, anyways.

The 1981 LaserDisc and 1982 CED releases spanned two discs and retained the full theatrical runtime.

[Riddler95]

Superman was one of the best SuperHero movies ever made.

I own the Four-Disc DVD Version of the film. I has both the Original Theatrical Version and the 2001 Director's Cut.

[WAYNE1980AA]

i had the original wci vhs tape.

[JesseL85719]

YOU ROCK!

[JesseL85719]

@Watcher3223 Better yet, I also have a copy that I dubbed to DVD. It also has stop-copy.

[gpwerner]

@eyeh8nbc Yes, in my entire VHS home video viewing experience, spanning 1982-1998, watching this particular tape of "Superman" was beyond a doubt the most disappointing.

I rented it in the old box thinking it would have an earlier cut of the film on there (no Internet at the time to set me straight on the runtimes). Total waste of a Sunday afternoon, and I had no one to blame but myself. Grrr.

[eyeh8nbc]

And I counted about 3 minutes of blank tape after the end, so they could've at least run the full end credits sped up rather than cut like this. Parts of the movie I checked seemed sped up too- in fact I read about this issue in "Video" magazine a long time ago, this tape was an example of how not to transfer a movie (and they didn't even bring up the panning and scanning!)