jero32 said:
On a side note: I once saw this documentary on scanning film. I think they projected from within an emulsion. The emulsion had aprox. the same "thickness" as the emulsion on the film. This mean that alot of the emulsion scratches were physicly filtered. Is this something worth looking into?
A "rank" transfer is when the film is passed through a thin sheet of water, and the water fills in and mitigates many of the scratches. There are a few transfer houses that can do rank transfers for a fee - but you aren't likely to find one that would touch a "Star Wars" print with a 10-foot pole.