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Post #243330

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zombie84
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2006 OT DVD: The Crawl on Star Wars
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Date created
12-Sep-2006, 6:35 PM
Although this thing now appears to be pretty top notch--whether real or re-created--i am now more curious about the fact that the EOD version is an entirely different transfer and one obviously taken from a film print. The OOT crawl clip supplied by Boba Feta looks suspiciously digital in its look and movements, even though there is the PAL speed-up. Furthermore, why is the colouring changed? The original was more of a deep yellow, as EOD shows, rather than the gold of previous home video versions (what do the PT/SE look like? I can't remember now--my memory is that they are sort of in between the gold and yellow).

The ANH-SE features a digitally re-created crawl. With the original backdrop. And perfectly matching text and movements. Perfectly integrated with the star destroyer fly-by.
So, it is definitly possible to have a perfect, re-created crawl. They have all the elements available.
If it really was the true, film-transfered original, why wouldn't they use the EOD footage? My guessing is because the difference in image characteristics made it difficult to integrate into the original footage, and that it would be easier to simply use the template created for the SE/PT and simply re-time the text movements to match what is seen on EOD. This still doesn't explain why they went with the revised gold colouring though. Obviously, its not a NEW transfer, as they would have obviously advertised making new film transfers for this release, and instead only reference scouring the LFL archives for material--in other words for the pre-transfered 1977 crawl. But this is not the pre-transfered 1977 crawl, as was displayed in EOD. This is something else, something entirely new. Perhaps a re-creation?

It looks good, but I'm still not 100% convinced yet.