For those who have some interest in the ITV broadcast, I asked Russs15 if I could post up some frames from one of his two captures of the tape (this being the slightly more compressed version). This is not meant at all as a preview to Jonno's work, but to give a taster of the raw materials for those interested in its strengths. Although the tape is marred by heavy colour casts on certain scenes, soft focus, and is the direct opposite of the home video releases in that tends towards being too dark/murky, the main buried treasure here is SATURATION. It's been suggested that this is from a 16mm print, if so it must be from a fresh print because it has the solid richness to it approaching a 35mm print (to my eyes). Here is an example of that rich quality, which in some scenes gives the images a burnished look similar to how negative1's teaser frames of his prints look via compression.

The benefit of this saturation is more lifelike skin tone. Scenes that often look washed out on home video leaving oddly coloured, flat, skintone in certain frames, on this version look much nearer to lifelike tone/body. Also the reflective copper-gold of C-3P0 comes through more pronounced:

This 'body' adds a greater sense of solid depth within a frame.

Thirdly the death star attack has the blue tones intact which faded to grey on later transfers.

I will be posting up some more frames later in the day to give more of a sense of the pluses of this tape. Thanks to Russs15 for preserving this tape to look back on in 2012!