skyjedi2005 said:

I wonder what the state of the actual original camera negatives for American Graffiti and THX 1138 are in.

I mean we know they took the star wars negative out in 93 or 94 and found out it had only about 60% of its original colors left or something like that.

Graffiti and THX were not effects heavy films.

So they probably did not have the problem of the bad color reversal stock. But they were still made in the era that films were shot are now known to be at risk because of the bad Eastman Kodak stock.

I mean what did they send up to Lowry, i don't think it was the o-negs. Maybe a generation later than that?

Not to derail the thread or anything but i wonder just how much grain is on o-negs, and how much color fade or if they are even in the Lucasfilm archives like Willow, Indiana jones and the 4 star wars films.

Or if they are in Universals and Warner's vault holdings. I do know that USC has the negatives or at least dupe negs of Lucas student films and he only has copies at Skywalker since USC owns them.

THX is the outsider being Techniscope. If not properly stored these films can go baaaaad very very fast. This is why there have been so many different MGM and Italian restorations of the Leone westerns. Somehow, I don't see Warner doing anything with THX besides sticking it on the shelf so there still should be some decent vault elements out there not in LFL, perhaps also even of the theatrical recut.