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Thanks, Willie, but I just found out that it looks like I won't be able to "go overboard" with the audio restoration -- I just tried redoing the audio for Ch. 2 to try and clean up the hiss on dialogue scenes a bit further by using a different technique -- and after completing this and comparing the second version to the first version I had done, the result turned out exactly the same! So we will have to just go with what there is to go with. Which is not that bad, just annoying to a perfectionist.

Re: burning out on it, I already did about a week ago (LOL) but that happens, gotta finish it anyway!

Also re: Accolades, that's not why I do this stuff. I get attacked for whatever I do as much as I get thanked (though I am starting to realize that the more certain dyspeptic internet posters say they hate something I have put out, often, the better a thing must be), so I gave up on that sort of motive a long time ago, if I ever had it to begin with! This serial has badly needed help for ages; it's lost its place in cinema history because it has gone unrestored for so long after the attempt to deliberately destroy it. And yet though it's been unseen or seen only in awful quality and incomplete form for 70 years, it remains firmly in people's memories as something important. That says a lot for its quality and character and makes me feel as if I am not wasting time I put into its insanely complicated restoration. If you guys enjoy it and this makes it possible to be remembered in anything close to its proper place in time and space I will be happy.

Unlike some projects I announce early, Lightning, I announced this one when it was nearing completion; when the end was in sight. We are not at the beginning of my working on this, we're close to the end. I am fussing with the little stuff now; there's a lot of it but it's all little stuff and moving along fairly quickly. The cover is done and I am not going to put any extras on to slow the release time down. I am in the next to last phase, the last being the compress-and-burn part, which will take a couple days since this is a 15 chapter serial but certainly not forever. I am considering this a first pass on the serial; there may be an upgrade someday for content (in case something needs correction) or from better quality material or both but since I'm dealing with "adequate" rather than sparkling raw material here I don't want to go overboard on it and waste time that could better be directed elsewhere. Anyway, you will have it way before Xmas.

Discussions of print sources and methods of restoration for this project may take place at SerialFest 2010.

OK well I am about done now -- I took the time to A) replace a few partial lines from Chapters 13 and 15 that were missing from the available material (due to damage and splices), which I couldn't resist making sure would be in place, and B) back the entire project up in case of emergency, which took a while.

I have also added a still gallery with Republic-release-related material to the project.

One of the partially-missing lines was Sammy's and let's hear it for new voice-filtering technology which allows an adult's voice to be transformed into the register of a kid.

Prince Barin will have everything by the beginning of next week.

Actually he sent the payment using PayPa.com, which, oddly enough, includes an "Automatic Interest Fee Charge At Gunpoint Upon Delivery" feature as yet unprecedented in online payment services. He says this fee is called interest because he is interested in getting the DVD and interested in getting paid twice as much as it cost to watch it as well. You can accuse Pa of a lot of things (and so can the FBI) but you can never charge him with having a low sense of self-esteem.