Have you physically cleaned the film because it looks scratched to hell like it was played in a misaligned projector thirty times. I wonder what your friend paid for this print, probably thousands of dollars. I have seen screen grabs from the derann 8mm scope that looked in better shape. Too bad they don't make it anymore since their negative broke and their license expired. Your print looks about on par in sharpness and colors with your super8mm project. Great Quality for a fan project. But not near gout quality as you have said previously. The only thing that will put it above the gout to me is the mono mix and anamorphic not letterbox. and letterbox prints do exist out there.

So is this like a Military or hospital print or a very bad 16mm dupe off the 35mm?

Some of those foreign markets back in the day had 16mm bootleg prints.

Anyhow not to discourage you keep up the good work!

Too bad the Film Telecine Labs would not touch this and if they did it would be expensive as hell. Still would a rank wetgate transfer get finer detail, i'm not sure.

Damn Lucas, warner bros developed a process To restore Technicolor films as seen on their breakthrough robin hood transfer. If Lucas would only do that for star wars i was born in 1978 so i have never been able to see star wars in true technicolor. I have read about the beautiful dye transfer technicolor prints in 70mm with six track sound and baby boom. I wish i had a time machine.

One of the VistaVision cameras used on star wars was actually used on the ten commandments. Supposedly it gives a negative area bigger than traditional 35mm.

Back in the seventies they were not able to ulilize all the sharpness and detail that was in the camera negative and that could be done with modern tech but Lucas is to cheap to pay for it or prefers videogame cutscene like cgi graphics.

The original star wars and Indiana Jones trilogy were so Lovingly created as can be seen in the cinematography, i mean real cinematography not video but film.