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poita
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Info Wanted: Are the 1997 Special Edition releases preserved?
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15-Jul-2014, 7:41 PM

ROFLRICK said:

I have a fondness for those releases. More or less, they are "My Star Wars"...

I've searched the boards, but I'd really like to get up to date information regarding the possibility of finding them in decent, possibly anamorphic quality. The topics don't have much activity past 2005-06.

Any info would be awesome!

 There are 35mm SE prints available, there is one up for sale right now in fact.

If anyone wants to purchase them, I am happy to make an archival scan of them.

In other news RMWUSA are doing a '4K restoration' of the Star Wars trilogy according to their website. I have no doubt it will be the latest in a long line of Special Editions, but a 4K release would make restoration work easier.

If they do a good job this time, and don't scrub as much grain and with 4K resolution and a deeper colourspace, then it would be easier to just restore the changed scenes from the 35mm prints and insert them into the official restoration.