The Dark Crystal- Emperor Death Scene

This is the Skeksis Emperor’s death scene from The Dark Crystal, with the original Skesis language in place. Jim Henson originally wanted to have the Skeksis have their own language, loosely based off what ancient Greek and Egyptian would have sounded like to give it an ancient feel. The scenes would have had subtitles. Test audiences didn’t like it, so they redubbed the scenes in English. I had seen some of the alternate language version scenes here on YT, but the workprint quality of them was terrible. A