Sunday, October 13, 2019

A Glance into the Past: DaS Entertainment

In the past few days, I have been looking for somethings cool to post on my blog while I prepare my stories. If you go on the Internet quite frequently, you will most likely know about archive.org, the place to find all sorts of awesome things that are no longer available on the web. While looking on the Wayback Machine (a.k.a. the thing on archive.org which allows you to travel back in time to see loads of website screenshots), I found a website entitled “das-entertainment.com.” After looking at a few more screen dumps, I realised that this website was the predecessor to bathtub-productions.com, which was Damien Valentine (a.k.a. Darth Angelus)’s main website before codedtransmission.com and chroniclesofhumanity.com. I managed to download a few files from here, including the original poster to Damien’s first part in the four-part machinima series Star Wars: The Darkness Saga (http://www.das-entertainment.com/gallerythingy/images/poster3.jpg), Falling into Darkness, as well as the original poster for part two (http://www.das-entertainment.com/gallerythingy/images/poster%20by%20nessa.jpg), The Darkness Consumes. After some really good hunting I found a huge collection of short stories (the stories were: Escape and DiscoveryWarFalling into DarknessThe Day I Joined the New RepublicSacrifice and New Command) which tied into the series, a large character profile and timeline (https://web.archive.org/web/20080510224613/http://www.bg-hunter.tk/), along with a lot of other things.

What I was really excited with though were the videos. 4 videos, not available on YouTube, Vimeo, or any other site for a matter of fact. The four videos were: Battlegroup Hunter, which is a little bit of an introductory to a small group that Damien was part of, Star Wars: Episode II & III Teaser, which is a trailer to Star Wars: Episode II – The Darkness Consumes and Star Wars: Episode III – Armageddon, Star Wars: Falling into Darkness Trailer, which was the original trailer to Episode I – Falling into Darkness, and, the best of them all, Star Wars: Episode I – Falling into Darkness, which is NOT the 2005 machinima fan film by Bathtub Productions, this is the original 2-D animated 2002 fan film Falling into Darkness, which is not available ANYWHERE unless you have the link!

So, if you want to watch these videos, follow the links (Links 1-4 are the original AVI and RM videos, click the links and they will automatically download. Links 5-8 are the MP4 videos, click the links and you will be able to download them from Google Drive [converted by Convertio].)
  1. Battlegroup Hunter (AVI file, 6.99 MB)
  2. Star Wars: Episode II & III Teaser (AVI file, 2.38 MB)
  3. Star Wars: Episode I – Falling into Darkness Trailer (AVI file, 2.93 MB)
  4. Star Wars: Episode I – Falling into Darkness (RM file, 16.1 MB)
  5. Battlegroup Hunter (MP4 file, 2.77 MB)
  6. Star Wars: Episode II & III Teaser (MP4 file, 1.06 MB)
  7. Star Wars: Episode I – Falling into Darkness Trailer (MP4 file, 1.14 MB)
  8. Star Wars: Episode I – Falling into Darkness (MP4 file, 47.9 MB)

I’ll also be creating a Darkness Saga timeline for fun, so check it out just under the heading, next to Home and The Complete Star Wars Legends Timeline. Well that’s a wrap, so see you next time on THE SITH ARCHIVES OF DARTH FANDOM!

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