Star Wars 1977 releases on 35mm — Page 13

Its. So. Beautiful. 

Thanks for sharing Poita!

WeTransfer clip pls

Pretty pictures!

Talk about detail...

8O)

DrDre said:

Looks great poita! Do you plan to do the trilogy in one go or will you be releasing them one at a time?

 As mentioened previously, I have about a year's worth of work to get 1977 finished, and will work on the others after that.

The main priority for me is getting all three movies scanned at archival quality, my big problem at the moment is getting enough HDDs to be able to have a backup, and I'm also paying for a print today.

You might have seen in the 'other preservations' threads that Fantasia, Alice in Wonderland, The Matrix, Lady and the Tramp, Jurassic Park and Star Trek III have all been scanned, so data space is getting a bit insane. I still have Cinderella to get to as well.

poita said:

DrDre said:

Looks great poita! Do you plan to do the trilogy in one go or will you be releasing them one at a time?

You might have seen in the 'other preservations' threads that Fantasia, Alice in Wonderland, The Matrix, Lady and the Tramp and Star Trek III have all been scanned

 Btw, what happened to your Jurassic Park scan?

I think Acu has it.

poita said:

I think Acu has it.

Yes, I do. I'm still trying to figure out what's best to do with it as it's ~800GB.

I don't have a powerful enough computer at the moment to do an H.264 encode in a reasonable amount of time.

It is, of course, available to anyone who can send me a 1TB HDD or money to purchase a WD10EZEX from Amazon.

A 'warts and all' Jedi frame.

At SD

http://i.imgur.com/SuL3MDT.png

At HD

http://i.imgur.com/hqA3Wcd.jpg

At Half Resolution, half bit depth for the pixel-peepers.

http://i.imgur.com/SmUPEmj.jpg

Obviously cleanup, grading yadda yadda yadda needs to be done.

I've had a few PMs worried that it looks a bit 'dark', the original file is 16bits per pixel, so the shadow detail is all in there.

e.g. Here it is massively overexposed.

Yeah, freaky isn't it. The first time (very long ago) I scanned the image I thought we had a serious problem, it drove me nuts for about an hour until I went back and looked at the film itself and realised what was going on.

These are just random frames from the scan, I would expect that the final versions will be better quality once I have had a chance to work on them.

There are some sections on some prints that are problematic, hence the need for multiple prints.

crampedmisfit1990 said:

poita, do you have all the material you need for all 3 Star Wars films for a proper theatrical restoration?

 No, there are another three prints that I want to scan, cleaning is around $500 per print, and storage (50TB per print) is around $1100 per print if you have a backup, freight is about $180 per print on average, that is neglecting scanning costs and the cost of the prints themselves, so the holdup is funds at the moment.

I have access to all I need as far as materials go, but HDDs and other costs mean I can't scan them at the moment.

Patience is a virtue though, I've been at this a very long time, and good things come to those who wait, so at the moment I am in a wait cycle.

The other films I am not working on until the trilogy is finished, but others can if they wish. The scans themselves are completed for the non SW stuff.