Originally posted by: andy_k_250
There was a bunch of talk earlier about what pieces of the original film elements survive. Here's a question -
Why was it so easy to add in the Biggs footage prior to the Battle of Yavin for the SE release, and why does it look so great? This was obviously not part of the original film, but it was spliced in seamlessly and looked perfect, despite being 20 years old.
How is it that a single cutscene could be in better shape than the rest of the OT?
Forgive me if I'm being naive.
There was a bunch of talk earlier about what pieces of the original film elements survive. Here's a question -
Why was it so easy to add in the Biggs footage prior to the Battle of Yavin for the SE release, and why does it look so great? This was obviously not part of the original film, but it was spliced in seamlessly and looked perfect, despite being 20 years old.
How is it that a single cutscene could be in better shape than the rest of the OT?
Forgive me if I'm being naive.
I've been wondering this myself. The Empire of Dreams shows outtake footage that would be based off the original camera negatives--the footage is scracthed to hell and faded.
One possibility is that he had ILM hand paint out each scratch and nick. This would have been pretty time consuming but it is very possible.
The other is that there is Empire of Dreams footage is taken from some kind of dupe print and the actual original camera negatives are more or less well preserved.