In the discussion thread for the Despecialized version of Star Wars I mentioned the crawl, and now I’m curious about something from the TESB crawl.
Some time ago poita posted a preview of a scan of the first reel of a UK theatrical print of TESB (the link is probably dead, I haven’t checked). Upon seeing the crawl in that scan, I don’t see the “smearing” (or whatever it is) that can be seen in the crawls from both Despecialized (which, I guess, it comes from the Bluray) and the Grindhouse scan, specially in the letters that are the closest to the bottom black bar. Maybe there isn’t any discrepancy and poita’s scan was too dark or whatever, but since I have no idea and I’m a n00b when it comes to these questions I prefer to post some screen captures. It’s probably nothing…
Upper images from Despecialized. Middle images from Grindhouse (color corrected by Dreamaster). Lower images from poita:
