DIF ESB 2004 vs 2019

Unlike SW and RotS, ‘The Empire Strikes Back’ for 2019 has been zoomed in and reframed for the entire movie. Generally 60%-70% of the movie has been shifted right. That seems to have been applied globally when they started then individual shots were reframed after that. There is one set of shots which was reframed top/left for multiple consequetive shots. SFX shots seem to have gotten special consideration and don’t follow the general overall reframing of the movie.

About 4.82% of the image seen in 2004 has been cut off. In the DIF images, we’ve added a yellow outline around 2019 so you can see the reduced visible image. Over the whole movie we chose a few edit points to show the alternative reframing, but didn’t get into reframing each shot.

Let’s start at the beginning:

When reading the crawl if you are quick you will have to wait a little bit longer for the first and last letter of each line to show up.

And now jump to the end:

Unfortunately the reframing was carried through the credits so they are now no longer centered. The above image has the 2019 resized to match the 2004.

At first, thought I was making a mistake in my composition and conversion process, as nothing was lining up. Took a nights rest to realize that they would resize/reframe the entire movie. To check ran the ‘George Lucas Executive Producer’ (GLEP) credit through versions and films:

http://fd.noneinc.com/DIF-2004vs2019/DIFMINI-GLEP_single.jpg (review full sized)
Seems as if it is only ESB in 2019 which is reframed/resized. (grey is 2019) ROTJ might be shifted but that’ll be for another day.
ANH lines up very well, but curious why they squeeze the font in 2011 and 2019.

Loosing part of the image means you loose part of the movie. Here are some example of things cut/clipped/lost.

The engines of Darth Vader’s Star Destroyer the Executioner get clipped:

The Radar Dish Gun and C-3po’s foot and a handrail light get clipped:

C-3po looses an eye:

When Leia says the line “I don’t think this is wise” she goes out of frame.

Vader entering the Carbon Freezing room used to have two centered flanking stormtroopers, the one on the left gets cut in 2019: