bilditup1 said:
Harmy said:
Oh, right, I see. I wonder if the JSC has the same kind of lens distortion that causes the GOUT to be very very difficult to overlay over the SE.
Sorry, but can you elaborate on this a bit?
Star Wars was filmed on 35mm anamorphic. Basically, a lens "squeezes" a widescreen image onto a square surface on the film, and then this squeezed image is stretched out again when run through a projector with an anamorphic lens.
As you can imagine, this can create a lot of anomalies when you stretch an image like this, and since the BR was mastered with modern equipment, they were able to create a very good looking stretched image. The GOUT is from the early ninties, and, while I'm not entirely sure of the video mastering technology they possessed at the time, I am positive that high quality anamorphic widescreen stretches could not be obtained with the same kind of accuracy.