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Post #552017

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Harmy
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What is the source of "Empire of Dreams" ?
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20-Nov-2011, 3:14 PM

Yeah, most of the EoD OOT shots seem to be low res analogue transfers. Maybe they were pulled from some older documentaries' masters or unused footage.

I think I read somewhere that the guys who created the menus for the 2004 DVDs had access to film materials (perhaps some 97SE IPs or even just prints or something like that) and scanned them themselves because the 2004 master wasn't ready yet and that's why they have correct colours. The 97SE footage in the EoD could be a similar thing. With all the in-house equipment, it's probably no problem for LFL employees to do low res scans of archival material. Which makes it even sadder that most of the time old analogue masters are being recycled (like with the archival docs on the BDs).