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Post #701308

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msycamore
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Besides "The films need to be the way I want them," has Lucas stated anything as to why the Blu-rays became the travesty that they are?
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20-Apr-2014, 9:11 PM

Tobar said:

Tanaka: I remember when we were working on the Star Wars restoration, that was a different process. I think we optically recreated interpositives. But in order to do this, it went through some kind of warm chemical bath cleansing. The weird thing about Star Wars was that it was made up of different film stocks, so it went through this bath and they didn’t know what would come out on the other end...

Parker: You mean if it would survive or not? ‘George we might destroy your entire film, but it’s... we think it’s going to be OK.’

Tanaka: There’s a space battle shot and a close-up on Hans Solo, and the original negative is coming out of this cleaning solution and it’s just acetate.

Parker: It’s all clear. Oh no, did the bath dissolve it?

Tanaka: Yeah, it dissolved it, depending on the film stock.

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Seriously though, how many different versions and horror stories are we going to hear about how things happened for this "restoration"? What is described doesn't make much sense to me either or do I misunderstand what he is saying, he mentions that he think they optically recreated interpositives and the chemical bath dissolved parts that were of different film stock but then he suddenly says the original negative is coming out of this cleaning solution partly dissolved.

The original negative for Star Wars contained four types of film stocks, as two of them couldn't be exposed to the bath, each stock was treated separately. It was disassembled cleaned and reassembled to avoid just such a scenario he described.