Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark

So while I have this Dutch Bible, a Ralph McQuarrie poster, and a screen capture of the Bible from the movie I was curious of whether the entire McQuarrie print would fit in the actual Bible when the print is sized as shown in the screen cap. The image size of the poster you buy from McQuarrie's website is 44.1 cm across. To make it scale to the Bible text shown in the Raiders screen cap, the McQuarrie print needs scaled to 30.8 cm across. The actual Bible text width (including margin text) is just 18.2 cm. Add another 1-3 cm of outside page margin depending on which edition of Dutch Bible you have. (Mine has just about 1 cm of outside margin.) That means 11.6 cm of the correctly scaled McQuarrie print would hang off the page of my Bible. I'd have to cut down the McQuarrie print just like they did for the trading card.

But in Raiders we see the entire McQuarrie image. I think they just slipped the McQuarrie one-sheet into the Bible, propped it up so it lays flat, and zoomed in close so we can't see that the print is larger than the Bible page. That's why we've never seen a mocked up Bible matching the movie and why the trading card shows the McQuarrie print cropped to fit. What do you guys think?
 
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DBCooper said:
I would just be happy to see the general layout. I most likely will attempt to match the fonts and retype the pages myself. That way it will be a clearer text and I can print it on any paper I wish, preaged or not.

I appreciate the effort you are putting into this. I can't wait to see the layout of the pages as they are in that book. Thank you for your work.

Best,
DBCooper
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It's my pleasure. I was very happy to get my hands on this bible. I rescanned the pages and new scans were much more uniform. Stitching for all scans are done. I scanned them at 600 dpi, so hopefully you will find the text clear enough. I'll start creating the layout to drop in the McQuarrie print next.
 
@Darth Saber: You did a great job on this. Thank you also for sharing your "way" of aging the paper. I guess I´ll give it a try, because I like coffee better inside of me, than on a paper ;)
 
Thanks Darth Saber for the map!

This is how mine came out

IMAG0532.jpg
 
Adam C. is on fire! Thank you for sharing all of these. I have been following all of these all day long. Alot of posts and alot of work.

Best,
DBCooper
 
Thanks to everyone who posted free Indy props and photos. REALLY great stuff here, and I'm gonna print out that map and try to age the paper. :thumbsup
 
Wow, thanks from me too. I will try to make some with that much input and good background on it. But I am also glad that I own a real Life Mag from 1936, so won't need to print one.

Did you know that these Life Magazines are also available at google books. So for those of you who want to print a copy for themselves, you could use the covers from the first page and use the pages from the scans to fill the pages with some real stuff:
LIFE - Google Bücher

Ps. I saw some flaws on the german texts, so if anyone needs help to find correct words and translations, just ask. And don't forget, in Germany there are ü, ä and ö in use. Also it should not be Altertumforschung but Altertumsforschung on the telegram about Tanis. ;)
 
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ROTLA BIBLE PAGE

Here's my attempt at the ROTLA Bible page.

I finished it last fall and forgot all about until I was looking through the posts in this thread this morning.

There are several versions of this page out there done by various talented individuals but I don't remember whose I used as a guideline. I do remember finding the German and Dutch text of the appropriate bible passages and painstakingly by trial and error fitting them to the column sizes I had chosen. I also recall, that fabulous McQuarrie print has to be resized to more resemble the screen shot.

I'm not sure of the exact page dimension but I ended up using an 11" x 17" page size.

Coincidentally, my page ended up looking a lot like DarthSaber's page.

bfd
 
RE: ROTLA Map

Good looking map. I think the best results for this map (like the one above) is to print the map on a brown paper bag. It just seems to look and feel right.

However, I cannot believe how hard it is to find a plain brown paper bag of the right size where I live!

You want one that is fairly heavy weight but every single bag I have found of the right weight has advertising all over it!

Oh well, the hunt continues.

bfd
 
Thanks guys... The paper I used I purchased at Hobby Lobby and it was already pre-wrinkled, I didnt crumble it at all.. All I did was put it through the printer,make the fold creases, cut and age it
 
Framing shops have rolls of brown craft paper that will work well. I prefer the virgin craft paper as apposed to the recycled stuff. They will sell you a sheet the size you need.

Best,
DBCooper
 
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