Empire Strikes back 35mm restoration feedback thread (POUT) (a WIP) — Page 3

It all looks a little soft due to the compression, but yes all of the original crawls are softer than the 1997 and onwards digitally created crawls.

The colour has not been done yet, just a basic black and white points adjustment to get it in the ballpark, and the flicker has not been adjusted yet either, it’s just as flickery as it was in the cinema in 1980.
Basically nothing has been done to that sequence I uploaded other than roughly adjusting the exposure. It will look quite different once restored, but I hope the sample gives you a good idea of how the print looks. I did have the print ultrasonically cleaned, so as prints go, it is very clean, but there is always still some dust and dirt and hairs that are wedges into the emulaion. Some are clearly in the negative, so I’m in too minds about cleaning that dirt digitally.

I’m looking at having a private screening or two of the print for people who have donated, once the scan is finished.
Obviously it would be on the down low, so the location and time will be strictly invite only, but it would likely be towards the end of the year.
Any suggestions for which city people would prefer? It might be possible to do a double bill with a ROTJ print as well.

dahmage said:

NYC or DC or nearby

I second this.

And it has “arking” at the rear.

Interestingly, the new print has a Revenge of the Jedi teaser spliced in at the front of Reel 1.

It was only ever seen in the UK, and was just a series of stills.

A couple of images from the new print. It hasn’t been cleaned yet, and I’ve just ordered 40TB of HDD ready to store the scan, once they arrive I’ll see about getting the cleaning done, but I couldn’t resist grabbing a few images for everyone in the meantime.

Wow. That looks beautiful.