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Save Star Wars Dot Com
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31-Jul-2010, 2:49 PM

Shouldn't the focus of relying on LFL to preserve SW come to a close.  They, like fan editors, want to play with it why the franchise can still draw a crowd.  Let them play, fatigue will eventually set in.  For me it makes sense to at this point attempt to create a distribution system which can link up the few remaining prints of this film with the theaters who want/can still play them.  While I was bootlegging the 30th anniversary ESB presentation in Time Square, a random passerby-er let me know that most of the theaters in NYC have gone digital and all the projectionists are being let go, since you can higher a kid in high school to run the new digital projection systems at vastly reduced prices.  This is not just an issue of this specific movie never to again be able to be seen in it's original form, it's all of movies making the transition.  It would make some sense that the last generation of film projectors and film projectionists should get their day in the lamp light.  Show off their craft and present great movies the way it used to be done.  In one or two generations the last of the film projectionists will probably be dead.  So like this recent screening in Baltimore, it seems like a fantastic idea to create a website which can link projectors with old film stock.  Not sure if that's something you want to consider.