I know for a fact that there are film prints out there 2 have appeared on ebay in the past in 16mm. One was a french print and another just the regular special.

Yes the fact that there are film prints floating around does not prove it was shot on film. I never claimed it was. But a special that supposedly cost a million dollars in 1978 you would think it was shot on film.

Back in the sixties and seventies stations still used 16mm film prints for broadcast, That is how star trek was originally shown on nbc.

As for the holiday special supposedly the Negatives are lost or destroyed for the nelvana cartoon segment.

I know the Star Wars footage from the lost cut exists on film. The scene with the little guy running through the legs of the man on stilts and vader and the imperial walking down death star corridor. The stock footage of the falcon and the star destroyer.

As for the newly shot footage of the wookiees and chewie, Luke, Han and Leia. Someone must know if it was shot on video.

I know that in the 1980's u-matic was used for video masters. All of the Carl Macek Robotech was originally on u-matic tapes. When they went to do the dvds the whole show had to be recut from scratch and the film originals were telecined from Macross and the other shows used. Recently they had to do the same with Voltron.