7. The link got screwed up, I think you have to keep hitting the SEE ORIGINAL POST link. The one in the white box with the red letters is very easy to get, and I plan on buying that soon, however, that's not the rare one. -_- As for the tape you have, that's the 1989 tape. Just don't drop it or the book will come out. I already made that mistake.
8. There isn't different versions of the movie, just different transfers. Nearly every release has a different transfer, and if you bought two different copies they'd look and sound completely different.
9. While I love and seek out lost episodes (with all of the Sesame Street/Henson episodes on my radar), lost movies and lost TV shows both had similar fates. When a TV episode was either deemed unprofitable for a rerun or too controversial to air a second time, the original tape it was recorded on was erased to use again, causing thousands of episodes of TV shows to be lost forever. The worst victim of that was arguably Doctor Who, and there are 97 episodes missing to this day, many of which contain major plot points. With movies, before there were special editions of movies (the first two were Citizen Kane and King Kong in 1984) or restored VHS/Beta tapes (the first one, while unofficial, was King Kong in 1978), there was no real reason to keep deleted scenes around, and the nitrate stock was usually melted down to recover the silver content. Greed (which had it's 8-hour runtime chopped to just over 2 hours), Metropolis (1927) (which had over half of the movie cut), The Phantom Of The Opera (1925) (where the studio destroyed the original negatives and the last surviving prints due to "lack of profitability"), Freaks (only 59 of the original 90 minutes of footage survives), King Kong (which lost 40 minutes overall), The Wizard Of Oz (which had 20 minutes cut), The Magnificent Ambersons (which had over an hour of footage cut), they were all notorious examples of footage being lost. In addition, Orson Welles had his films hijacked by the studios on most occasions, leaving mutilated messes in their place. And Stanley Kubrick cut somewhere in the range of three hours from his movies overall, including roughly 5 minutes from Dr. Strangelove, 22 minutes from 2001: A Space Odyssey, 42 minutes from A Clockwork Orange, 2 minutes from The Shining, and roughly 30 seconds from Full Metal Jacket, all of which has yet to see the light of day. However, it's not all bad, since some lost footage from these films has been recovered (including a scene from The Wizard Of Oz, a scene from Freaks, and complete cuts of The Phantom Of The Opera and Metropolis, all taken from the only known prints to exist), and there's a potential to find more in the next few years. It's rumored that an uncut print of The Wizard Of Oz is in the same Argentine museum where Metropolis was found, which would rock.
10. In the case of some movies that went to TV, scenes were actually added in. Cases I know of are Halloween, The Exorcist, Blazing Saddles, and The Wizard Of Oz. In the case of the more violent movies, they had to make up for the cuts in the film (which severely shortened the movie), so they had to add some deleted scenes in, or sometimes film new scenes to fill in the gaps in the story. For The Wizard Of Oz, they had this deleted scene on hand, and it was put in. However, when the movie started to become popular (as crazy as it sounds, The Wizard Of Oz wasn't that popular until the late 50s-early 60s), the annual airings (which eventually became more frequent) began to take on more esteem, and they eventually lined the film up with the theatrical version, which omitted this scene. The last possible stop for this TV print was this tape, but it's unclear exactly which TV print was used. As early as 1983, MGM/UA Home Video (created after MGM/CBS Home Video was reorganized) touted a VHS with better picture quality, and in 1985 a copy came out with improved sound. (CuddleWoozle, THAT'S the tape you saw when you clicked.) Since the picture and sound were upgraded, that means that the poor-quality TV print was officially out of commission. Now, onto the X-rated part. When the Hays code (which resulted in the butchering of tons of movies due to what was deemed offensive content) was retired, the MPAA instituted the first rating system, advertised as the GMRX system (pronounced "jim-rex" on the trailer). G was the same as G, M was the same as PG, R was R, and X was the same as NC-17, except the rule for X-rated movies was that no one under the age of 16 could get in. Back then, a rating of that caliber wasn't a deal breaker, and Midnight Cowboy went on to win the Best Picture Oscar, the only X-rated movie to do so. Other notable X-rated films are A Clockwork Orange, Fritz The Cat, and Cabaret. In 1976, the system was changed to G, GP (not a typo), and R. A later adjustment changed GP to PG, and the PG-13 rating was added in 1984. As for X-rated movies, their ratings were changed, usually to R or NC-17, but there's been at least one movie that got a PG rating. However, inspired by the high sex content in some X-rated movies, some porn studios began self-applying the X label on many of their movies, even when they were rated R or not rated at all. Officially, there hasn't been an X-rated movie in 42 years, but if you look around online, in a seedy book store, or in the back room of some more legit stores, you can find so-called X-rated movies very easily.
Here's the front of the box for the tape I want:
Here's the tape: