Here are a few ideas I have:
- The Lucas-owned IB Technicolor print
- A surviving interpositive or a CRI-sourced print (like 4K78) that has damage unique to it - there’s too much detail for it to be a release print, even an AI-enhanced one
- Trailers for some, other print sources for Han
- IIRC, the shot of Han appeared in From Star Wars to Jedi, so maybe a scan of that?
- Press kit materials
Topaz was definitely used to process these scans, which makes me think something about them didn’t warrant a full 2K or 4K scan.
Re: #4 - FSW2J was 4x3 so…no.
Re: #5 - I can’t imagine EPK footage would show a clip from the end of the movie, unless it was the SE. And I don’t think the SE would look like this.
Re: #3 - I’m not intimately familiar with all of the Star Wars trailers but did any of them have that shot?
Re: 1/2 - why would they scan that instead of something internally at Lucasfilm? Is it possible it’s a print from one of the ILM people?