Originally posted by: Shimraato vigo:
if you didnt see in her response she just told you that those will not work cause they are too damaged.[/quote]
Yes, the NEGATIVES are too damaged. However, there are lots of high quality 35mm and 70mm copies around (even serperation masters), from which could be made an excellent transfer, which easily exceeds an old VIDEO source.
as for you saying you saw something in empire of dreams, is it not possible that they just redid that one shot for the documentary. i am sure that they didnt have to redo a whole movie or one bloody shot.
Please, don´t just babble around. Inform yourself. There are several shots in the documentary which are clearly from the OOT, and ANAMORPHICALLY:
- the original titles including the pre-EPIV textcrawl
- the original death star explosion
- Han running after the guards, facing a massive backfire
- several effect shots during the death star fight which have been replaced with cgi in the SE
These shots were most probably taken from a good surviving 35mm copy of Star Wars.And even the shots which are the same as the SE are most probably taken from the same source, since they retain the original colours, which have been heavily altered for the 2004 release.
as for how many will sell, ok well this forum is world wide. we got like what 70 000 signatures. i rounded it to 50 000 and assumed that for every one person to sign the petition there were 5 others out there that wanted it and didnt sign. thats pretty resonable right.
as for the cost how much do you think it would be to digitally re-render and re-edit, and clean up 3 two and a half hour movies. thats millions of frames, with thousands of flaws on them to clean and sharpen.