Baronlando said:

zombie84 said:

-1977 IP. My impression was that these are worn to bits, and the start of the film tends to be more worn due to handling. But could be a possibility.

This one is intriguing. They've always implied they were hopelessly trashed, a victim of success. But why would they be any worse off than other hit movies of the era? Ultimately, Grease and Saturday Night Fever, etc. played just as wide and it's not like Fox was using monkeys to handle it.

I doubt the original IPs to those film would be a preferrable source to use as well.

Truth is, the original crawl seen in the GOUT could be from anywhere. Print master, IP, O-neg. I don't know. I mean, if you think about it they have all the material there and its not any harder to scan the original negative section than it would be to scan a print master. But you don't want to handle the negative unnecessarily, so for a crappy bonus video that low quality to begin with my money is on some kind of theatrical print or original IP. What I am curious is when this was done. Was it new or did they pull the video transfer that was done for Empire of Dreams? If its the latter, why does the transfer on EOD look completely different. Or was this done neither for EOD nor this release but was catalogued by LFL at some other time? It's a bit mysterious.