Originally posted by: Zion
From my experience - and MBJ would probably tell you the same thing - what you see in those frames in the NTSC version are the burn marks "cleaned" up by the '93 THX process. If I recall correctly, you can see the same type of thing between the Japanese Special Collection and the Definitive Edition LDs. The JSC will have a scratch or a spot or something in one frame, and in the DE it's still kind of there but mostly not. Things like those burn marks, however, are not on the JSC.
I was going to say pretty much the same thing, except that it's possible they got their master before the cleanup/restoration process was fully complete. This could be because France would need more time to work on the LD's - creating French subtitles or french audio etc.From my experience - and MBJ would probably tell you the same thing - what you see in those frames in the NTSC version are the burn marks "cleaned" up by the '93 THX process. If I recall correctly, you can see the same type of thing between the Japanese Special Collection and the Definitive Edition LDs. The JSC will have a scratch or a spot or something in one frame, and in the DE it's still kind of there but mostly not. Things like those burn marks, however, are not on the JSC.