This occurred to me: I assume this is a 35mm print of the 1980 original. Right? Right. Okay, so--where did it come from?

Was it one of the existing ones they had laying around? If so, it would pre-date the 1990s, and that means it's printed on the older triacetate stocks and not newer polyester stocks. That means by the time ESB goes public domain in like sixty or seventy years and they open up that vault to use a fucking release print as the base for a new negative because the original negative disintegrated thirty years prior, they will probably find a nice pile of film that turned red decades ago, even with temperature controls.

If it's not a vintage print but a newly printed one...what the hell did they print it from? The 1985 interpositives? I imagine the IPs themselves must be pretty rough looking by now. Even the 1993 DE, with its colour-corrected telecine, you can see how pink its turning and how faded the colours are, and its pretty dirty and grainy too.

Gah. Its incredible how badly preserved these films are. Utterly incredible.