The Wizard of Speed and Time short - now online!

For six years I've been trying to track down a video copy of The Wizard of Speed and Time short film, which shows to an enthusiastic audience each year at B-Fest. The wait is over. Quoth Chris Meadows in a comment to previous post:

Wizard of Speed and Time, the short, can be downloaded as a 700-megabyte DV codec AVI, from a color-corrected transfer from original film stock to DV under the auspice of anime-industry professional Neil Nadelman. Get it while there's still bandwidth to spare, folks. It may be torrented later on.

If you're interested in the full-length movie, well, we've got that, too. A 4.2 gigabyte DVD video file, compiled from the closer-to-directorial-vision laserdisc version of the movie, is torrenting right now. There are also 2-disc versions floating around, which have perhaps better picture quality—but with a transfer from LD you're probably not going to get full DVD quality no matter what.

Oh, and if you're worried about breaking the law, let me put your mind at ease: Mike Jittlov, the rights-holder, approves the copying and distribution of these films, given that there's not any possibility of a commercial DVD release at present; there's a "Special Karma Calming Notice" to that effect at the end of the DVD.

Personally, I'd like to see Stomp Tokyo review these films fully, rather than just the B-fest blurbs that are all Google's showing me on their site.

You may get your wish, Chris.

Edit: And now I can finally step through each frame to read that darn Easter Egg hidden in the short: "Help Mike Jittlov help us all."