I’m noticing that lights and reflections are “streaked,” like it was a slow exposure and their luminescence is trailing off a little. It’s especially noticeable when Artoo and Threepio are in the sandcrawler. Is this the result of overexposure in the scan or is it native to the print or negative?
EDIT: Here’s an example of what I’m talking about.
Do you mean this:
with the smearing coming of Threepio and the lights
and this with the Jawas?It might be something that happened in the compression phase perhaps?
Looks like the smearing happened during our scanning process. Here is one of the original frames (EXR format).
http://www.thestarwarstrilogy.com/starwars/file.axd?file=/2016/01/StarWars.Frame.00022792.zip
As you increase the gamma / brightness the smearing becomes more apparent…