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Post #1254301

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yotsuya
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Info: Star Wars - What is wrong and what is right... Goodbye Magenta
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Date created
5-Nov-2018, 2:45 PM

In regards to the conversation about the Technicolor prints, I decided to sync 12 different transfers so I could see the colors side by side. I tweaked a few (such as minimizing the Technicolor green shadows and magenta highlihts and the overall red tone to Puggo Grand). I decided to check one of the scenes that was changed (between the limited and wider releases I believe) and found this shot to highlight the differences. The one labeled 2006 UK GOUT CC is my color correction and I pulled my 1985 version which happens to have this shot taken from the JSC since I was trying to match that. The UK GOUT has is identical to the US GOUT, but I am not using that due to the missing frame. But the versions with the fully white frame are the shot as it has been in all the newer prints (Definitive Collection, Special Edition, up to Blu-Ray) and the others are all older. Specifically the Moth3r the Puggo versions which have the original crawl, different end credits, and a mono soundtrack that is a fold down of the stereo instead of the actual mono mixed soundtrack. I take that to mean that not long after the May 1977 initial release, the movie was edited resulting in all following copies to have the 3 new FX shots and the new end credits. When Fox sent over copies for home video, they sent an odd mixed copy that had the new opening crawl and the new end credits, but still had the original 3 FX shots. That makes sense because that interpositive might not have been used after May 77. When the struck and new interpostive that was used for the Definitive Collection and GOUT, the new FX shots were there. Only this one is still there because the other two were changed for the Special Edition.