According to the article:
"Sadly, after 17 years, the CRI material had lost so much dye that every shot realized on that reversal stock had to be removed and recomposited from scratch in order to bring Star Wars back to its original glory. Soon, Kennedy had Star Wars Special Edition film editor Tom Christopher (at Skywalker Ranch) and visual effects editor Dave Tanaka (at ILM) searching to come up with the original effects elements so that these shots, as well as other less-than-perfect opticals, could be recomposited digitally."
CRI was a then new reversal film adopted by special effects crews. Unfortunately, the film was extremely unstable and it fades extremely fast compared to other film.
Post #547745
- Author
- Mavimao
- Parent topic
- Theory on the 1997 "restoration".
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- https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/547745/action/topic#547745
- Date created
- 22-Oct-2011, 7:16 AM