Originally posted by: THX
Okay, so scratch #2 from my list - great! Next step - track down the best condition print source you can. IIRC, Lucas' copy was not the only dye-transfer print made by Technicolor UK (although there may only have been two). If you can get your hands on the other one, you're in business.
Okay, so scratch #2 from my list - great! Next step - track down the best condition print source you can. IIRC, Lucas' copy was not the only dye-transfer print made by Technicolor UK (although there may only have been two). If you can get your hands on the other one, you're in business.
There were a lot more than two. It's likely that all of the original theatrical prints in England were dye-transfer. Film maker Richard W. Haines recently posted in a DVD forum that he once had the opportunity to buy a 35mm dye-transfer print of SW, but passed on it because the opening scroll was replaced with the newer "a new hope" version, using a piece of Kodak film, which had faded. He said it was one of his biggest regrets, as the piece of film could now easily be replaced with a newer piece of low-fade Kodak film from one of the SE prints:
HERE