Showing posts with label Trailer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Trailer. Show all posts

Friday, July 4, 2025

Acclaim AOL videos rediscovered thanks to Daily Batman Anthology

For while I kept seeing this CD on eBay for an AOL* CD (*America On-Line - for those of you who don't remember this old internet provider from the 90s) that claimed it also had a making of the Acclaim video game included.

I didn't end up buying it because 1) it's an old CD from the 90s and those things are difficult to get playing on modern computers, 2) the making of video was probably the one I already owned on video tape (see this video). So I gave it a miss.

Thankfully the Daily Batman Anthology X/Twitter channel did purchase a copy and has made a video showing all the content (see below).

Along with the making of video there is also some extra content:-

  • Sound clips - which sound re-recorded specially for this (and possibly the now defunct batmanforever.com website)
  • Posters - the standard characters ones
  • Sound clips - which sound like re-recorded versions of lines from the film (again, these were possibly ported from the batmanforever.com website)
  • An animated version of the Gotham skyline with moving Bat signal (this was definitely taken from the old website).
  • Two versions of the theatrical trailer - these are kind of interesting curios as they don't have the Danny Elfman music but instead have Elliot Goldenthal's score.

As with most computer stuff from the 90s, the quality is quite pixelated and heavily compressed but they have these cute surrounds to make it look like you're looking at one of the batcave monitors.

Thanks so much to Daily Batman Anthology for posting these so they can be preserved. If you want to check out the individual pieces those are also posted on the same channel.

Monday, September 20, 2021

External link: Batman Forever trailer in 4K

Mindd Kidzag (who earlier in the year supplied the awesome scanned shooting script and schedule) has done it again! He's purchased a copy of the Batman Forever trailer and got Denis-Carl Robidoux to scan it at 4K resolution. 

Both the DVD and Blu-ray of course had the trailer on them but only in standard definition. It's wonderful to see the trailer in such clarity. Two bits that particularly stick out are the shot of Batman saying "Going down" and the shot of Val Kilmer standing up to the giant bat - both of which were deleted from the film.

Check it out below on the largest screen you can!