Info: my "The Making of Star Wars" based Color Correction

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I bought the Complete Saga Bluray collection this week, mostly for the Extras disks, which ive enjoyed watching the deleted scenes from the OT on, I took a good look at the bonus Documentaries disk though, which includes a very good preservation of The Making of Star Wars, produced in 1977.

On this documentary there are many full scenes taken from the movie Star Wars, including scenes from Ben’s hut, the falcon, Darth Vader v Ben and the scene where the ‘I find your lack of faith disturbing’ scene. I made a few minor CC changes to remove colour bias and what do you know! the colour timing of these captures are very good!

Look at screenshots in this Album:
http://imgur.com/a/65Hs6

I think that future CC changes could be matched based on these as an accurate source captured in 1977, just take a look at the scene within Ben’s hut, this would be a great reference to fix Team Negative 1’s Silver Screen Edition.

It also shos that Vader’s sabre didnt have much of a red tone, and that the engine blast from the Falcon actually has a blue tone around the edge as they leave the Death Star.

What do you think?

Film is an imperfect archive, and Hollywood (representing the entertainment industry) is just trying to sell soap for $$ (dollars) on the ¢¢ (pennies). That said, inside documentaries like this one are more reliable, and less subject to twiddling, for it’s original presentation look … well, as good as the stock’s longevity, and some were devastatingly bad. And should we mention that Star Wars was a rushed job (so much so that Lucas had to be hospitalized for exhaustion)?

So, this documentary has an early source and it’s “an extra” for less-to-no twiddling. Variations? Of course, but due to the quality original stock – as demonstrated in that last picture group:

Luke’s tunic show reddish in the 1st shot but properly balanced in the 2nd. And great overall color in that 2nd shot, too! I would take it as a better Rosetta Stone over some guy with a new digital camera he barely used, taking screeners, in a darkened, soon to close theatre, for a last showing of Star Wars.

Otherwise, we’d end up with a Deathstar of green-tinted interiors. Oops. 😃

SilverWook said:
They used a really really old analog video master for the Blu Ray.

What?!?

So … Whoa! That’s excellent about the film!!

It always comes back to …		… (and hopefully a good pedigree).