I don’t know a lot about film, but to my knowledge, the versions of the movies we want Lucasfilm to transfer on to DVD is the 35mm versions, cleaned up and properly transferred in anamorphic widescreen. They call them the nagatives, I don’t know what those are. Is negative just another name for film? I don’t know what processes are involved in cleaning up the films. I always get confused what “digitally restored and remaster” means. Is remastering the part where the film is cleaned up? For example, particles of dirt are removed from each frame. Besides raping a classic story, is the digitally restored part where it is transfered to a digital source and then errors are removed, changes are made, stories are ruined, with photo/videoediting software? Am I correct about this?

I’m sure Lucasfilm has an archive of various versions of the movies on film. Now there is some speculation that Lucas himself might’ve destroyed all the OOT film prints. Is the reason why we want the OOT transferred from 35mm prints to DVD because film holds the most image detail capacity? I am confused why 35mm and not the 70mm prints? Why is 35mm the better quality prints than the 70mm? You’d think larger film would hold more image storage capacity.