Vader21 said:
Darth Lucas said:
Vader21 said:
How is it possible to have a technicolor print if the film was not shot on 3 strip technicolor…??
It can still be printed on 3 strip technicolor even if it wasn’t shot that way. Same as how you can have a 35mm film printed onto 70mm stock.
JEDIT: Or at least it could if Technicolor was still doing these kinds of prints, but Star Wars was actually the last movie they used this process for before shutting down their labs.
Oh ok got you cheers for the info bud… do you know why there would have been a need to create a 3 strip technicolor print since the film was already shot on the newer 35mm single strip colour film…???
I actually do, because I know who owned one and where it is.
When Star Wars was opening in the UK, they realized how popular it was in America, so they wanted extra prints at the last minute, and no one had capacity… except Technicolor. Although they were a lot more expensive, they wanted to get more copies in circulation so they bit the bullet and got like 12 or 13 copies made.
And (especially at the time) just because the single strip film was newer at the time, it wasn’t better- it was subject to fade and had a higher level of grain than Technicolor. Because it’s an optical print, you can go from whatever image/film you have to whatever stock you print with, it’s not a big deal. The cost of it is very high, and like the other reply said, it was the last film they did (they also did a few prints of Jaws a couple of years beforehand…) because they just couldn’t compete, even though their product was infinitely better.