Originally posted by: Zion
SC-DC Comparison
The '93 versions have a different fade out and fade in from the part where 3PO says, "Why I should stick my neck out for you..." to "Thank the Maker!". The fade out beginning at 01:19:28:18 (X0 TC Print time) happens about 30 frames sooner on the SC. Why does this happen? Your guess is as good as mine.
Additionally, in the shot of 3PO being lowered into the oil bath, the lights on the back wall actually change color on the '93 versions, but not on the SC. This is the exact same shot though, so there was obviously some sort of additional color timing done to this shot. It makes one wonder if the color changes to the canyon shots were done after the fact as well - as in these were not present on the original film print.
SC-DC Comparison
The '93 versions have a different fade out and fade in from the part where 3PO says, "Why I should stick my neck out for you..." to "Thank the Maker!". The fade out beginning at 01:19:28:18 (X0 TC Print time) happens about 30 frames sooner on the SC. Why does this happen? Your guess is as good as mine.
Additionally, in the shot of 3PO being lowered into the oil bath, the lights on the back wall actually change color on the '93 versions, but not on the SC. This is the exact same shot though, so there was obviously some sort of additional color timing done to this shot. It makes one wonder if the color changes to the canyon shots were done after the fact as well - as in these were not present on the original film print.
In the 1995 PAL release there's a few frames missing at every reel change including this point, but the fadein is not much different from the DC, but anyway, I think the release containing the most frames must be closest to the original.
The changing lights on the wall must be an optical glitch in the DC transfer, you can see that there's an abrupt change in brightness behind 3P0 just as the greenish lights changes to red. And in the 1995 PAL THX release which was done two years after the DC, the lights are the same as in the 1986 JSC.
If you look at Moth3r's 1977 WS bootleg which is overall brownish/yellowish in color, the greenish lights on the wall should actually be much more bluish, so maybe the blue colors on the print was fading to green aready in 1986.
In the bootleg the canyon scenes also appear darker, but this being a several generation video copy it's very difficult to judge.
In the 1995 PAL THX the canyon scenes appear slightly brighter than the DC but clearly not as bright as the JSC.