msycamore said:
danny_boy said:
but the original film was restored
If the film was restored why wasn't the National Film Registry given a new print for preservation, why did Lucasfilm try to persuade them to take a SE print instead, Fox who paid for this whole "restoration" in the first place could've made this happen, right? It's because it was a half-assed restoration done in order to revise the film. A year or two later Lucas had acquired the full rights to Star Wars and nothing was stopping him going ahead with his plans.
danny_boy said:
Sorry dude---my 1982 VHS tape is not being surpressed by ol' George.
And George could easily have stopped that IB technicolor print from being shown to the public in Baltimore in 2010 even if it was for free.
Well, we're talking about suppression of the original FILMS, not your pan & scan video tape of the '81 re-release.
Yes, but he didn't because it would've made Lucasfilm look very stupid in the media.
danny_boy said:
As long as those films are locked away there will be fans who are upset about this.
And I am one of them------but I don't hate George for it.
And neither do I, but I don't have to like him either.
To be fair it looks like the film was restored to the best of Lucasfilm's ability given the technology and expense at that point in time.
HD/2K scanning of an entire film was in it's infancy and also incredibily expensive in 1996.
New prints were made of Close Encounters(20yrs),Saturday Night Fever(20 yrs) and The Godfather(25yrs) to mark their respective anniversaries in 1997 and none of them had scans at all-----the new prints were struck directly off new internegatives -----compared to those films above -----I think more effort was put into restoring Star Wars(which at least had partial scans---allbeit to produce/add effects)
(Even fellowship of the Ring which was made in 2000/2001 was 70% scanned and 30% photochemichally produced)
And in a literal sense-----the supression(of the 35mm prints) of the "original film" of Star Wars can go right back to 1981 when "Episode IV" was tacked onto the begginning-----because the theatrical re-releases in 1981.82' 83'and 85'(in 83' and 85'---Star Wars was part of a triple bill with ESB and ROTJ) all featured these new "altered" prints------ but no-one complained back then!
Why didn't VHS and laserdisc fans complain in 1982 when the "altered" version of star wars was released for the first time on home video?----- why did'nt they complain that they could not hear the mono mix on that 82' video tape/laserdisc?