I am interested in acquiring pan & scan laserdisc transfers of the O-OT trilogy. These would come in hugely handy if anyone ever wanted to do really beautiful high quality versions of the O-OT on DVD, because for any O-OT scenes that aren’t in the 2004 DVDs, the big pan & scan zoomed image could be placed over the widescreen image, basically doubling the quality, resolution and sharpness. This would not be practical to do for a whole movie, but for the brief snatches of scenes necessary to reconstruct the O-OT, as I did in the original Star Wars Classic Edition, it is the perfect solution.

I asked Russ Dawson about this, and he was stumped, he didn’t think anyone had done pan & scan transfers before. Which seems like an oversight, as anyone wanting a good version of the O-OT should definitely look into trying this.

So, has anyone done pan & scan transfers? Or would be interested in doing so?

Empire and Jedi would interest me most.