Thanks to everyone, and also a quick note to all that have been asking me “didn’t you leave the boards?”. Well, yes it was my intention to finish off a few posts and go, and I have ramped back my involvement considerably, but this project was just way to important not to try and help ensure the film was at least scanned at the best quality possible.
So I will be finishing off this project, but won’t be posting here much, and probably not in other threads at all.
One other Empire related project has also suddenly become maybe possible, which is also crazily rare, so I’m hoping it will also be able to be secured, more on that later.

I am so excited that THX is happening, as well as preserving the ultra rare Italian cut, it will also allow Harmy to do an extremely high quality despecialised edition. These forums and the people who get involved are amazing, you are all genuinely ensuring that films get preserved that would otherwise be lost forever.