trimboNZ said:
havoline said:
proving the point that ILM is not passionate about Star Wars, the very reason they exist is because of Star Wars. If the personel were wanting to do it they would have done the work for free, dont you think?

ANH (Lukes lightsaber was green somehow in 2004 DVD release) I rest my case.

I was under the impression that Lowry Digital did the restoration and colour-correcting for the 2004 DVDs, and were given one month per movie.

The only article about the 2004 DVDs says that it was ILM:

Moth3r said:
doubleofive said:
I don't remember where it was mentioned, but there's an article the specifically states that ILM did the colors and just had Lowry clean it. I think ILM tried to restore it themselves to save money, messed up the colors and hoped Lowry could fix it.

http://www.apple.com/ca/pro/film/lowry/starwars/index.html

That article mentions that Lucasfilm scanned the negatives, carried out the "re-mastering" (I assume this means the '04 alterations) and the re-colour timing. Then then attempted a cleaning pass through ILM, before deciding to give the job to Lowry.

Lowry received high-definition scans to work with from Lucasfilm. Although it is not clear in the article, it's reasonable to assume that the scans provided contained the tweaks and the new colours.