Gaffer Tape said:
Well, whether it was real or not, you can't deny that it wasn't a marketing wet dream to not only be able to unveil these new-fangled Special Editions, but to claim they existed because of some messianistic effort to save the film stock from death.

Yeah, I remember the interview with McCallum on how if they did not restore the Star Wars Trilogy back in '97, the movies would have been lost forever....

I am still trying to find any hit movie ever made that the original negatives were lost forever by a studio company!