Mielr said:
Zombie, how did you find all of this out? Do you know someone who worked on it?
zombie84 said:
Digital technology hadn't yet advanced far enough, the 1997 SE was mostly an old-fashioned photo-chemical restoration. The entire film wasn't digitized because there was no such thing as DI's back then, they just recomposited whatever shots they need, printed them back onto film and then spliced them into the neg so that it could be completed photochemically.
As for EOD, most of thats just laserdisk footage anamorphically enhanced. It was done out of house by some company, and the entire feature is anamorphic so that means they were forced to re-render the letterbox footage as anamorphic in order to include it in the feature, otherwise it would look ridiculous to have this tiny box in the center of the screen whenever they showed clips.
Digital technology hadn't yet advanced far enough, the 1997 SE was mostly an old-fashioned photo-chemical restoration. The entire film wasn't digitized because there was no such thing as DI's back then, they just recomposited whatever shots they need, printed them back onto film and then spliced them into the neg so that it could be completed photochemically.
As for EOD, most of thats just laserdisk footage anamorphically enhanced. It was done out of house by some company, and the entire feature is anamorphic so that means they were forced to re-render the letterbox footage as anamorphic in order to include it in the feature, otherwise it would look ridiculous to have this tiny box in the center of the screen whenever they showed clips.
Zombie, how did you find all of this out? Do you know someone who worked on it?
Yes, but I wouldn't need to, you can tell just by watching it. As for the restoration, its been well documented, and in any case it was done mostly in 1995 AFAIK, and DI's didn't exist yet, so scanning an entire film would have been a historical breakthrough. I guess they still could have done so in secret for whatever reason, but why would they do that, the whole point of the SE was that Lucas wanted the originals to go away and never be released again.