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Post #430093

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skyjedi2005
Parent topic
Free "farewell" Screening of 1977 Star Wars collector's print (British I.B. Technicolor)
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Date created
9-Aug-2010, 2:46 AM

Fang Zei said:

Ah, good point digitalfreak. We're only up to October in terms of announced blu-ray releases. Announcing the Indy bd's at c5 is totally within the realm of possibility. These lucasfilm titles never hit a new format on a significant anniversary anyway. It really does seem like every last catalog title is hitting blu-ray this year, LFL probably feels the pressure.

I just caught American Graffiti on one of the local tv stations and couldn't help but wonder when Universal will put that on the docket for blu-ray. THX is due next month from WB and the absence of the original version kinda feels like a nail in the coffin, though it doesn't have the cultural significance of Graffiti and Star Wars so that's at least understandable.

Something I randomly noticed after the end credits of Graffiti was a quick flash of the title shot, only it was letterboxed unlike how the movie had been presented. I think it was the revised version, don't know what it was randomly doing at the end of the broadcast transfer though. The title shot back at the beginning was - I think - the old version (hard to tell from the cropped-for-tv framing, but I don't remember clouds). Found a nice comparison right here actually.

It looks like according to that link Lucas ruined Graffiti in 1998.  So i guess i have to look for a pre 1998 laserdisc copy, unless that shot was on the last laser release as well.  I know the same documentary was.