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danny_boy
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Luke's saber appears to be green in the making of Star wars documentary
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Date created
31-Jul-2011, 3:59 PM

Not sure if this has been covered yet.

Luke's saber appears to be green in this documentary(which aired on 9/16/77)

It probably coincided with the dissemination of the theatrical prints with the Mono optical track tacked on.

And it I think this documentary  used one of these mono prints as the source for it's clips.

Is it possible that the mono prints had a different colour grading(at least in some areas regarding the optical composites)?

 

From this angle , Lukes lightsaber was composited on without the comfort of an in camera blade:

 

 

The optical sample that was to be composited in was greenish in it's tint:

 

 

Look at the width of the glow in the following frame(this one without seeker ball composited in):

And now with seeker ball added in:

 

And here is the final composite:

The saber has a greenish tinge with a possible modicum of blue:

 

 

 

And as it appears in the 2004 DVD:

 

Does anyone else have this documentary and are the colours similar to what I have shown here?