Info: POSSIBLY FOUND - Star Wars A New Hope Technicolor I.B. dye transfer print - random post on reddit — Page 3

Spaced Ranger said:

mikeaz123 said:

If there's any thing you want me to check and possibly take a pic of, let me know.

Well, actually, if you can make a best-you-can-color-accurate snapshot during the Deathstar conference room scene, preferably with fleshtone faces (too bad for Darth Vader), at about 36 minutes into the movie (11 minutes into reel 2?), that would be great ... and should stir the pot some, here, at Original Trilogy!  :D

I'll see what I can do! That actually sounds like it'd be near the end of reel 2.

pushad said:

This could get interesting for sure. So far i do like Harmy's version (minus a few things.. sue me I'm a grumpy old man), but getting to see this would be extremely exciting.

Hope mikeaz123 is the real deal, no offense but this is the Internet after all. My two cents, getting it professionally transferred is surely possible despite the legalities. Lets face it, there are Star Wars fans everywhere... just need to find one in the right spot.

Good luck getting this done, and if there's a safe way to contribute any monies to help I'll be the first in line for sure (this is the Internet after all).

 

A friend projected my reel 4 and then I watched Harmy's version after, he did a pretty good job IMO.  I think there's less grain in the video than there is in the print though, but that's one of those subjective areas you can debate about.  I did notice a couple color issues, but that may be the fault of my iphone camera. 

Thanks mikeaz123! Looking forward to that.

poita said:

I'll see if I can hunt you down an SE print.

 

This is indeed VERY exciting to read! I'm not certain how I can help, but you have my support. I am also another one of those "grumpy old men" who saw Star Wars in the theater in '77, and have been patiently waiting to see Team Negative 1's progress on their 35mm project, and now this? This is starting to be a very good year... I feel almost like I did early in 1977, waiting for Star Wars to come to my local theater!

skyjedi2005 said:

This is not the same print that was shown in Baltimore is it?  With the platter damage on the sides.

 

No this isn't that print. I heard that there are two excellent prints out there, one of which is the one used in Baltimore (no clue who owns it but I know it cost them $$$$$$), but I'm told those two prints have some issues.  I know of three other collectors who have prints and each one says theirs are choppy or messed up to varying degrees.  I know of two other people who may have them, but I don't know the condition of those.  One collector and I were trying to figure out how many were struck originally, it couldn't have been that many.  The prints were reused for the 1980(?) re release, so they took a further beating then.

mikeaz123 said:

skyjedi2005 said:

This is not the same print that was shown in Baltimore is it?  With the platter damage on the sides.

 

No this isn't that print. I heard that there are two excellent prints out there, one of which is the one used in Baltimore (no clue who owns it but I know it cost them $$$$$$), but I'm told those two prints have some issues.  I know of three other collectors who have prints and each one says theirs are choppy or messed up to varying degrees.  I know of two other people who may have them, but I don't know the condition of those.  One collector and I were trying to figure out how many were struck originally, it couldn't have been that many.  The prints were reused for the 1980(?) re release, so they took a further beating then.

I always thought it was 2-300ish

Edit: Beaten like the empire

This is very exciting. Please consider releasing it as-is, without any processing. I would love to have a copy!

-G

Yeah, same here... if anybody feels the need to tinker with it, it's probably best to just release it as it comes. Also, this way it could be released quicker ;)

Thrilling :)

Reddit stalkers? Just don't comb through my history and claim I'm the third boston bomber ok?  :)  I put it on reddit under my throwaway but I'm the same guy.  

mikeaz123 said:

Reddit stalkers? Just don't comb through my history and claim I'm the third boston bomber ok?  :)  I put it on reddit under my throwaway but I'm the same guy.  

 Fans of the original trilogy are afraid to get their hopes up these days!

Mike seems like a real nice guy. I've emailed him a couple of times now, and he seems easy to get along with, accommodating and not condescending..that in itself is refreshing! I'm looking forward to some more informative posts from him here pretty soon.

I also hear that this version actually has the "non-existent" dual-throwing grappling hook scene, that so many say was NOT in Star Wars in '77 as well, okay, okay, not really, I just wanted to get your attention, and to see who is really reading this.

poita said:

There are a few reasons why that wouldn't work, Apart from whether that scanner would work for cine film at all, which I doubt, but assuming it did,  it takes around 17 seconds per frame, that would equate to 816 hours to scan 2 hours of film.

So at 8 hours a day, it would take around 100 days, assuming you did nothing else.

Even time considerations aside, I personally wouldn't put a valuable print anywhere near something like that, and I doubt the internal software would identify the frame boundaries etc. correctly.

I looked up that scanner and I don't think it would work, I mean you could set the scanner in between the rewinds and slowly do, but that scanner doesn't look very high quality at all.  And I have a feeling that it would take much much more time than that.... however, I assume once the training session is over (or if you're already a pro at it), one could reasonably make a scan that quick.  

Harris said that several years ago, could be wrong but I think things have changed.