Five years is the cutoff? So you have experience as a professional film restorer and seasoned, profit-driven studio executive then?
No, five years is way past the cutoff. Anyone who gave them five years was more than generous or, more likely, just plain delusional. Robert Harris is quoted as saying the entire restoration of films like My Fair Lady took less than one year. He called that “a lot of time”. And sure, that is a lot of time and hard work, but it’s less than a year. For Star Wars and Disney, it has been five years … and nothing.