moviefreakedmind said:

unamochilla2 said:

Didn't many of the cut scenes still end up in the film, just in an altered form? Such as the Mos Eisley sequences and the Jabba sequence? Those scenes had to have been restored in their original form before they were "enhanced" with CGI.

Well, did they restore the mos eisley scenes and then destroy the negative by printing the CG directly onto the old film? Or did they restore it, digitally add the changes and add new parts into the negative and put the real parts into storage?

According to savestarwars.com, the original pieces are most likely in storage. Therefore, the scenes were altered digitally.

The original pieces removed for the CG-enhanced shots are no doubt in storage. The original negative was fully cleaned and restored starting in 1995, and because parts even then were damaged or unusable had to have certain parts replaced with interpositive and separation master dupes, as well as having the optical transitions redone.