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Disney half-assing an OOT release
That, pretty much. They should either go big or go home, but if they decide to half-ass it, that’s how they’d probably do it.
It brings us back to the question of whether or not they should use the o-neg as a starting point, scan in the pieces that were removed in '97, and meticulously reconstruct it from there. In other words a professional version of what Harmy did. As stated earlier in the thread, all of the optical wipes were redone in '97 with - IIRC - the wipes beginning and ending on different frames than the original version. I seem to recall a screenshot comparison years ago between two different versions of the wipe from the shot of the falcon and the remaining ships flying back to Yavin IV and the shot of Luke climbing out of the x-wing.
The fear we all have with that method of restoring the unaltered versions is the potential for them to miss something and then we end up with a '97 change in our otherwise original version. Sure, maybe it will be something 99% of the viewers won’t notice and it won’t detract from their enjoyment of the film, but I look at this from a standpoint of historical preservation. I want this to be exactly what was seen during the original runs of these movies. If that means going to a source other than the o-neg, so be it.
