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Post #913776

Author
yotsuya
Parent topic
Team Negative1 - Star Wars 1977 - 35mm Eastman Vs Technicolot Theatrical Version (* unfinished project *)
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Date created
2-Mar-2016, 5:23 PM

I love what Mike is doing, but I don’t consider a lot of it to be restoration. I’d almost call it Mike’s cleaned up edition. The tech prints don’t have much grain to speak of because the technicolor printing process doesn’t introduce any grain. So he hasn’t removed any grain from the image. But he is cleaning up things that go back to before the master negative. He’s found the same dirt on the Tatooine scenes as Lowry did. He has not removed the filtering effects that Lucas had Lowry clean up. So his work is closer to the original than the end product that Lowry delivered, but it is not a faithful restoration of the theatrical version. A lot of the things he has cleaned up should be left intact. I would like a collection of versions and one of them is the pure tech print - green tone and all, just cleaned up to look like a pristine print. I am disappointed that the TN1 work has stopped, but word is it will restart from a fresh scan of a tech print, so there is hope that the version I want might yet appear.