Baronlando said:

danny_boy said: the OCN of the Godfather cannot even be passed through a pin registered mechanism anymore without falling apart(but Coppola does not get the type of vitriolic hate that is often attribued to Lucas because of it)--

Hey, remember when Coppola ran the Godfather negative through a 90s computer in order to put Moe Greene on a cartoon dinosaur and to paste Andy Garcia's head on Abe Vigoda's body?

And I guess you don't remember this:

the first two Godfather films had sustained additional damage in the 1980s, when Paramount sent them to an optical house to make new prints. The original rolls were disassembled and then reassembled incorrectly, a cheaper but chemically damaging fill was used, and the films’ lyrical 12' and 16' dissolves were replaced with dissolves of generic length for ease of printing.

http://www.theasc.com/ac_magazine/May2008/PostFocus/page1.php