Bingowings said:

zombie84 said:

He's always been. The impression I get is that he's basically like one of the guys from TFN, whos world would shatter if Lucas was shown to be less than a god. Steve Sansweet has his head so far up George Lucas' ass he could probably see Rick McCallum's feet.

I know I'm a bit late but didn't we used to have a post of the week thread?

Because if it's still around (and I have looked) I'd have nominated that one.

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/VFP-presents-Post-of-the-Day-This-thread-has-rules-Read-the-OP/topic/11215/

Spent the night converting the raw photos from the Technicolor screening to correct the perspective. I shrunk them by 50% in size as well, so instead of 10mb they are about 1mb, but they should still fill your screen.

Some choice examples:

http://savestarwars.com/images/senatorcorrected/technicolor2.jpg

http://savestarwars.com/images/senatorcorrected/technicolor6.jpg

http://savestarwars.com/images/senatorcorrected/technicolor32.jpg

See http://savestarwars.com/technicoloribscreening.html for more. I didn't do the complete photo collection though. Maybe one day.

Puggo: Thanks a lot for the advice. This is exactly the sort of stuff I am hoping to sort out by posting the work-in-progress here and getting feedback. Of course, the main page I sort of threw together and always planned on re-working, but probably the text would have been on similar lines to the way it is now. I'll keep your post in mind when I go through and start editing.

see you auntie said:

zombie84 said:

I'll have to see if I can find it in the library some time.

If you don't have it on hand that's cool don't worry about it.

 Oh, University of Toronto library has it, I've checked it out three times in the last year, I just have to find the time to go down and find it in the mazes of book stacks.

Zombie, have you managed to get those '77 in theater Belbucus photos? if not, you have four of them posted on this page:

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Star-Wars-Colortiming-Cinematography-was-What-changes-was-done-to-STAR-WARS-in-93/topic/9805/page/2/

 And here's another one.

I would really like to see the rest of them though, if they even exist.

msycamore said:

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I would really like to see the rest of them though, if they even exist.

Oh, they exist.  They're me! /obiwan

xhonzi, you are just a crazy old wizard!  And I don't mean wizard in the Jake Lloyd sense.

Now that is podracing!   Wooooooo!  /jake

No, did not get further pics from Belbucus. He hasn't answered my PM, but I don't think he frequents these boards too much anymore.

New page up:

http://savestarwars.com/specialeditionfail.html

As usual the text and formating are not final. But leave feedback about general flow, if I missed anything, if anything needs to be added or corrected, or if there are better examples. I kind of struggled to express how the crushed black levels work, I don't know if that comes across clearly. There was a really good page explaining about the evils of crushed blacks with reference to photography and the SE but I've forgotten it. I'm also not sure if the page is rambling and unordered, I tried to be thorough and progress logically from one issue to the next.

I think you mean rosacea.

I like the article.  A bit rambling, but readable.  

The picture with the red circle around the constellation seems out of place.

Yeah, I am re-editing it right now actually. I was thinking of photoshopping out the circle, but I didn't want to be seen as "tampering" with the image. Maybe it would be a good idea though.

Any suggestions on where to cut down on stuff?

It is hard to say where I would trim.  I like and don't like the personal tone of the article.  If readers detected sarcasm, it might both rally the like-minded, but may turn off the reader that is on the fence of the issue.  Just my 2 cents.

And 1-3 examples of the audio errors is confusing.  You do list three things, but they are lumped together.  You ought to separate them more or just list them under 1.

What's even more strange about that "Amatuer photoshop edition" is that I can't remember any magazines or major review sites on the web complaining about those horrible glitches at the time of its release, quite the opposite, they praised the beautiful transfers as reference quality, a sort of bar had been set for other releases to top. You have to wonder if they had actually been paid by Lucasfilm to shut up. With that many glitches, in fact all that can go wrong did, you can only hope it was done with purpose by people working on Lucasfilm that didn't like these versions. ;) Becase if Lucas did actually personally oversee this, he must be blind. We original trilogy fans is treated like shit, but I actually think the '04 transfers are even worse, I didn't think that was possible. :)

zombie84 said:

There was a really good page explaining about the evils of crushed blacks with reference to photography and the SE but I've forgotten it.

That might have been on Mike Verta's site, link here:
http://www.starwarslegacy.com/site/pages/Editorials.html

Zombie i read your article on the 2004 special edition and it is just plain embarrassing they passed off those mistakes as "deliberate creative decisions"

The part about the emperor's new clothes looking so good made me laugh out loud, because it is too true of later day Lucasfilm sycophants.

It is even more pathetic of Lucasfilm when you realize a fan like adywan corrected a lot of the 2004 mistakes in his revisited a new hope.

A multi billion dollar corporation with more computing power than NASA cannot get a set of DVD's right, but a fan with a home computer and simple off the shelf software can.

You do realize that Secret History is Zombie, right?

With the recent anouncements, the time for this site has come. Save Star Wars is my new battle cry.

Wow reading what that link said wow! I think George Lucas is a total senile jerk now.

Well I guess will just have to makes hundreds of copies from the early widescreen laserdisc editions and post them all over youtube like wildfire to piss Lucas off. LOL

The originals is where Lucas made his money from us "the original STAR WARS fans". I guess that must have slipped his mind because he become his own worse greedy f$*king fat ass enemy and he doesn’t what to share with the other children. What a selfish bastard he’s become.

If it weren’t for us STAR WARS would be nothing.

msycamore said:

Zombie, have you managed to get those '77 in theater Belbucus photos? if not, you have four of them posted on this page:

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Star-Wars-Colortiming-Cinematography-was-What-changes-was-done-to-STAR-WARS-in-93/topic/9805/page/2/

 And here's another one.

I would really like to see the rest of them though, if they even exist.

No, no it should read. 

It is a period of uncivil Lucas hating rebel scum fans on hidden site called originals have won their first victory against the galactic evil George Lucas empire.