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Post #728514

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Short Round
Parent topic
4K restoration on Star Wars
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Date created
22-Sep-2014, 2:40 AM

Sure, if a fan posted the GOUT online back in 2006 it would've been great, but it all depends on circumstances. There was no reason for Lucasfilm to go that cheap, and the laserdisc master was pretty much the bottom of the OOT barrel for Lucasfilm. For example, Harmy's Despecialized are the most impressive Star Wars edits I've ever seen. Now, let's imagine that Lucasfilm went in and just covered up/edited out the SE changes with the GOUT, previous SE's, and an assortment of film sources and then released that. It'd be baffling and we'd all be pretty pissed off about it. Not because what they released was "bad" but because they have infinitely better sources at their disposal and could have used that to give us a legitimate DVD and blu ray of the unaltered films.

@MFM: I'm not sure what sources the doc. crew were using, but it definitely shows that Lucas was lying when he said that there were no sources other than the '93 tape. I also don't believe that Lucas has ever intentionally destroyed (or even let rot) any of his Star Wars materials. He's a hoarder, and even if he doesn't want anyone to see his stuff again, he won't destroy it. I'm betting that the restored OOT from the 90's restoration has been sitting on a computer at Lucasfilm Limited since the creation of the SE.