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If you were going to comment about it in this thread anyway, why did you make a new thread about the same thing?
70mm print of the pre-SE Star Wars film on Saturday in Academy Theater in CA! — Page 6
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If you were going to comment about it in this thread anyway, why did you make a new thread about the same thing?
My thread OP has been modified to just flag the news to people that dont read far enough into this thread to discover it and also redirect people to come here if wanting to discuss it and so in that sense I have shifted the portion of my original OP that asked questions about the matter here, to re-centralise the discussion here after so many complained about making a thread on a topic that’s really quite seperate to this one. I’d have to laugh if it spurned a multi page discussion and someone comes along to suggest it get it’s own thread…
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So with the recent revelation of George Lucas himself having signed off on this public screening of a legit unaltered '77 Star Wars, I wonder what it could mean for the below matters:
- George’s changed stance/view on the original theatricals?
- Clauses within the contract sale to Disney that allow him to do this and I wonder what else?
- Some tangible proof of future 4K releases of the original theatricals?
- Possibly a new source for fan restorations in perfect condition (apart from possibly 2sec of damage as detailed below)?
Pretty interesting turn of events either way! 😄
Or he just doesn’t care because it costs him nothing.
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As for the print itself… Holy Jeebus! I can’t imagine it looked any better opening day of any of the 70mm re-releases. It was gorgeous and other than that 2 seconds of damage (which, BTW, didn’t require any frames to be lost to repair and didn’t affect the sound), the print was pretty immaculate. Dykstra did say there was considerable effort of the part of many to get Lucas’s approval, so I sadly wouldn’t hold out much hope that this print suddenly finds its way into more and more screenings. I think it could be seen again, but my gut tells me (to quote Indy) only on special occasions. The bigger news to me though is just the knowledge that this exists in the first place and therefore it IS possible should that occasion ever happen.
It is not all that surprising that this 70mm version exists more so what is weirder is that it could have been used and scanned ages ago and released Instead of the GOUT or alongside the SE.
Simply Scanning this would have probably yielded better results than the Digital Restoration work for 2004 and onwards?
I think it’s strange that this could not have been used as a source for a Restoration. Ok it’s a Blowup but it’s still good.
Is this something that could have been found recently or forgotten about?
Yeah would be a great thing for them to have scanned and released as an original version on home media. It could even make it easier since they could say since it is lower res and has grain and so on it won’t compete with the true SE version. And the original 6-track magnetic sound in full quality! And the original colors too!