Baronlando said:

gizzy2000 said:

did they plan out the whole SE thing and only restore the parts that George wanted them to and then leave the other parts to rot?

Dennis Muren said they kept adding shots as it went on and the whole thing snowballed into the shitshow it became, so I would assume everything got cleaned first. Because you want to have a nice pristine restored shot so you can stick a cartoon dinosaur in it.

Interesting, I'd never heard that before. It doesn't surprise me since the SE's have always just come across as Lucas being obsessive and just changing things for the sake of changing things, and then claiming it was something he'd planned for decades.

EDIT: Oh, I forgot to ask, do we know if they cut the parts that were going to be altered and put them in storage, or did they actually destroy the original film by adding the SE changes directly to the film in the negative (is that possible?)