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Post #905082

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Spaced Ranger
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Info: my "The Making of Star Wars" based Color Correction
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6-Feb-2016, 4:14 PM

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. 😃