Yes. The same number of unique frames. In the 35 mm scan of the 81 crawl/flyover that came with the SSE 1.0, as the Star Destroyer comes into frame, at 2:26, as the Blockade Runner fires on the Star Destroyer, one of the laser bolts is frozen along with all the action and the grain for a single frame. For its accurate length, you have to cut that extra frame. It is an error scanning the film. Outside of that one instance, when it was an obvious mistake, the flyover progresses frame for frame the same way - all the lasers line up, the flashes, the timing of everything. Even though they used a different Star Destroyer plate for 77 and 81, they still line up perfectly. Every version I have checked, 82 PAL, JSC, SWE, DE TR47, US GOUT, UK GOUT, SSE, Williarob’s current proejct, the 97 SE TB copy, the DVD, and the Blu-ray, all are the same length. the 35 mm is only one frame longer because it has a duplicate that you need to remove for it to be an accurate representation of the 81 crawl (one fo its many flaws). Now, I found an almost consistent inconsistency in the warping of the image. Only the 35 mm scans and the DVD/Blu-ray are somewhat alike (enough to be able to identify and align the crawl as being identical to the Blu-ray and line it up… I step I need to redo), with the SWE being a the closest of the others. And the levels vary considerably. In some home video version, you can clearly see the entire matte of the moons and planets. In others they are black. I have been attempting to match the DE and the 35 mm as much as possible, with the SWE and the 82 PAL version providing the best starfields to compare to.
Post #1089802
- Author
- yotsuya
- Parent topic
- Remastering the 1981 Episode IV Title/Crawl/Flyover (Released)
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- https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/1089802/action/topic#1089802
- Date created
- 12-Jul-2017, 4:13 PM