skyjedi2005 said:
ray_afraid said:
AntcuFaalb said:
So does anyone think this won't happen?
I mean, we've been fucked-over so many times over the years that I still don't know what to expect from the Disney acquisition of LFL.
I haven't seen anything good come from Disney's purchase yet, so I'm not sold on this being a sure thing. And even if it happens, I doubt it will be handled with as much care as Harmy's Despecialized Editions. Are we even sure an unaltered print still exists in the LFL archives?
They have to at least still have separation masters. IP's, In's etc.
You don't not have these for a multi million and possibly multi billion dollar franchise. Especially when Lucas apparently has saved every thing. The only thing totally lost and not recoverable or at least not in very good condition is the original effects work. They recomped the stuff that was lost and that is not original only the pieces of film are.
The live action stuff could be taken directly off the negative if its not totally gone by now, with no generation loss. However having to resort to the IP or prints for the original effects would not exactly match up well with the negative.
To be fair I am not even sure that the original effects(on the original CRI stock ) that formed part of the original negative(o-neg) would have stood up to the live footage original negative even back in the day before it had faded.
Photochemically speaking, you will always incur generation loss(be it on 35mm or 70mm) by creating Interpositives and Internegatives to produce release prints
The one bonus of this generatation loss is that the qualatitive differences between original live footage( O-neg) and effects shots printed on dupe film stock are/were obscured or reduced which makes/made for a more seamless presentation.
But just imagine if you had had a 4K scanner(or even 2K) back in April/May 1977!!!....... and you had scanned the then "new" Star Wars O-neg and projected it at 4K resolution the differences in quality between live footage and effects shots in terms of grain density would have been jarring.