The Hobbit From 80's TV

I'm uploading The Hobbit's opening section up until the first commercial break, recorded off TV in the late 80's, to have it available for comparison to the DVD.

There are some differences, beyond sharpness and video resolution. I feel this is the sequence with the fewest differences. But there are still some obvious ones in the sound.

This is just for comparison purposes.
Do Not Ask for me to upload the full movie.
I do plan to add some other key sequences that have blatant differences but this will be the longest continuous segment.

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Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Broadcast
• Hobbit
• Rankin
• Bass
• Tolkien
• Classic
• Vs
• Rerelease

[Spokavriel]

Please watch your language. If you don't like the singing style in a fantasy movie there are other descriptive terms that can be used.

[kd4adv]

"May the hair on his toes never fall out." good to use in toasting to somebody :) lol.

[67nairb]

This must've been from a 1980s video cassette.

[67nairb]

@KronprinzAdam He was of the Stoor breed.

[kd4adv]

I still have this on VHS.

[KronprinzAdam]

@Sener It is a different hobbit, Bilbo became just older...Gollum was another hobbit creature (but not from the Shire, there was a different "riverside" Hobbit race), he was called Smeagol and he was centuries older than Bilbo.....the Ring corrupted Smeagol completely...

[algi80]

@Sener No, he doesn't.

[NeuroManson]

Late 1970s actually, around 1977 according to the IMDB

[Sener]

it's sad to watch this, because the hobbit that stars in the show ends up becoming gollum.