skyjedi2005 said:
Years ago Lucas said i believe in a book where interviewed by ebert that the 70mm prints of the originals with the six track mag track were the definitive presentation of the films. Even talking about how the best prints were the technicolor ones and they would be good for all time. He claimed the films were preserved. Only years later when the 20th anniversary was on the horizon for star wars did they find the negatives were not handled or stored properly and the stock used eastman kodak was completely faded.

Considering all the "revisionist history" we've been subject to from Lucas over the years, sometimes I wonder if this wasn't just another bullshit line to justify why they made the SE's in the first place.