An Alternate Edit of The Pilot for The Jeffersons On IMDB Streaming (1 Viewer)

[Robbie^Blackmon]

Here's a clip of the alternate edit of "The Jeffersons Move Up":



This is quite the technical anomaly. With this transfer, the canned laugh track was omitted from the soundtrack during the scenes of Tom and Helen that were inserted into the next-to-final edit. It makes the scene play awkwardly for the home viewer, but this is indicative of only one stage of how programs get assembled for final release. And, it's rare and neat to see!

Madge Sinclair is, indeed, erroneously credited as Helen Willis instead of Roxy Roker on this particular transfer.


This copy was likely pulled from the archive by accident during recent years for digitizing as part of the online collection of All In The Family. A few episodes of AITF on IMDB are new (as of 2007, anyway!) transfers that are more complete than the dvds, including "From Television City in Hollywood!", as well as color bars and slates at the start:


Somewhere down the line, we need someone to go through the classic series libraries like the Norman Lear collection and re-transfer episodes from broadcast masters. There's no telling what else may be lurking in the archives!

 

[Wiseguy]

Here's a clip of the alternate edit of "The Jeffersons Move Up":



This is quite the technical anomaly. With this transfer, the canned laugh track was omitted from the soundtrack during the scenes of Tom and Helen that were inserted into the next-to-final edit. It makes the scene play awkwardly for the home viewer, but this is indicative of only one stage of how programs get assembled for final release. And, it's rare and neat to see!

Madge Sinclair is, indeed, erroneously credited as Helen Willis instead of Roxy Roker on this particular transfer.


This copy was likely pulled from the archive by accident during recent years for digitizing as part of the online collection of All In The Family. A few episodes of AITF on IMDB are new (as of 2007, anyway!) transfers that are more complete than the dvds, including "From Television City in Hollywood!", as well as color bars and slates at the start:


Somewhere down the line, we need someone to go through the classic series libraries like the Norman Lear collection and re-transfer episodes from broadcast masters. There's no telling what else may be lurking in the archives!

Apparently, this is the version now shown on TV. A month or two ago I saw this on get TV's broadcast of AIF and thought it was so strange to see the end of the episode with practically no audience reaction except for a couple of snickers and you could still hear actor movements and such. I knew I had never seen that before and was wondering why it had come up this late.