Baronlando said:

I missed part of it but there was a lot of good stuff in there. It made me wonder if its possible to simulate, side by side, the differences in the look of an IB print vs. an ideal opening day Kodak print.

The fact that all the hundreds of crawls were chopped off and replaced in 81 is pretty crazy. I guess it explains why they had an original lying around for the 2006 DVD, they must have a box of them. Although I picture GL wearing them like the severed ear necklace in Universal Soldier.

It's hard for me to imagine that NONE of those made it out of that lab somehow. If I worked there and they were cutting off elements and tossing them in the trash I surely would have taken one as a souvenir, even if it were for a movie that I wasn't some superfan of. Did they have armed guards there watching? There must be one somewhere...