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*orders another three clone armies and puts them under RRS's and Jay's command to help defend the values of the 'old republic'*
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Han Solo: I'm a nice man.
Princess Leia: I happen to like nice men.
Han Solo: I'm a nice man.
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Originally posted by: Master Sifo-Dyas
I'm all about having anything available on DVD that was once good enough to be screened in movie theatres across the world, because it's the first format that is actually suited for archival purposes. We have such a rich culture and it would be a pity to lose all those 'first steps on the moon' for each era of film.
StarWars is such a nice example, because the original theatrical cuts are - as George Lucas stated himself for years - indeed timeless. Every time I watch them, I'm so totally awed by what they managed to pull off back then - most the SFX in ANH look so 'not 70s', imho. It's such a pity George Lucas is so ashamed of it.
Princess Leia: I happen to like nice men.
Han Solo: I'm a nice man.
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Originally posted by: jimbo
The originals do excist. They are in the film archive.
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More people voted Special Editions only then originals only.
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Han Solo: I'm a nice man.
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Originally posted by: cubebox
Master sipho-dias...
WHy do you think DVD is suited of archiving?
Do you know how bad the image qualitty is compared to a film original negative?
Would you ever want to take your photo negatives,scan them and put them
on a computer disk in form of small 720 pixel wide compressed files?
If you want to capture all the image data from a motion picture negative negative
you have to scann it at at least 4500dpi resolution which would give you
files of some 4000x3000 pixels (anamorphic format) and they would have to be uncompressed
unless you want fake skin tones in your prints.
That given,on a single DVD medium you could store maybe 30 frames or so.
This is a bit more than a second of film.
And besides film is still the best way to archive something,you never have to vory
about file conversion,new equipment etc.
The best way you can archive color negative film images is to make color separations.
Print the negative to 3 separate black and white films using color filters to
extract basic RGB chanels.
This is what most hollywood studios do these days. I'd say that about 90% of films
have these color separations made for archiving.
the sicret is in the fact that black and white film doesn't fade like color film.
And those separation film stocks are made from a polyester base that does not
decompose that fast.
A film printed on black and white color separations can last up to
500 years if stored at recomended temperatures of about 7 degree celsious
and 25% humidity.
Lucas made color separations of Star Wars in 70's but they were made on
old film stocks that had acetate base (can deteriorate and shrink).
Shrinking is a nightmare for such aplication,you have 3 roles
of the same scenes,and if the films don't match you get color problems.
New polyester films do not shring like that.
If Lucas made new color separations today the films would be preserved
for 100's of years.
By the way. It is not celluite or whatever.
It celluloid .
And you make it sound as if celluloid film base has anything to do with fading.
No. Old emulsions from the 70's have fading problems.
SW was shot on an very early version of eastman 5247. If Lucas waited
just for one or two years he would have minimum fading problems because
a newer version was introduced then (Alien,Empire strikes back,Blade runner)
which did not fade that fast.
And by the way.What do you mean that is all he had??
This was the best choice. No other imaging format could give such
qualitty. Not even today. THere is nothing today that can match film qualitty
in motion picture world. Episode 2 was shot on HD video,and that is why
it ended up looking like crap cinematographically. The resolution was
good enough for film prints,but if you could get a hold of a direct
answer print of any of the films from the old trilogy (or a 70mm print)
you would see that the qualitty is much better than that of episode2.
Princess Leia: I happen to like nice men.
Han Solo: I'm a nice man.