Free "farewell" Screening of 1977 Star Wars collector's print (British I.B. Technicolor) — Page 10

Too soon.

Hey HewittYoda did you take any pictures? And welcome to the forums.

Harmy said:

Oh, wow, a girl. Here? For real? ;-)

Alright then, cool story, sis :-)

Yep! A girl! I'm very anti-Special Edition Star Wars, so this forum is great!

I'm not anti-SE as such.

I'm very much against it being the default version and the OUT being tucked away as The Apocryphon Of St Marcia.

none said:

HewittYoda wrote: We didn't have a chance to do a serious technical calibration specific to this print.

Would be interested in hearing more about this process. And what changes do you remember being made, between showings, that night.

The pictures/video of that night have become significant reference material for everyone round here, so learning what they lack or what they got right would also be great to hear.

thanks for stopping by.

Harmy wrote: I think I do know where the print currently resides though. And so do quite a few others.

And many of us don't have a clue and are not privy to that info, so all you insiders reading, write down your story for posterity. and dump it into the public domain when you are ready. Get together, write a book.

Bare with me -- I'm a Mainframer and I'm still learning how to navigate the forum. :)

As far as calibration to the print we had, we made no visual calibrations to the print that night. We spent most of our time on calibrating the sound. We were going from the Twilight Eclipse soundtrack (can I have a "Yuck!" please?), which was a DTS soundtrack, to the Dolby Stereo soundtrack and that required us to bump up the volume and bass quite a bit. We did that during the first show, while the movie played.

I'll have to go back and look at the pictures. I keep hearing comments about the ship at the beginning looking pink, but I don't remember that from the actual show. Each IB Tech print will be dyed slightly different, so there will be some color differences even between prints.

As for The Senator print's location, since I don't know Harmy in person, he might have an idea where it is located. I heard about this print a few months before we ran it. Its location and owner were a seriously guarded secret, so I doubt many others know where it is. I've also heard there are a few prints floating around, so other prints might have more of a "social" presence than The Senator print. I saw on another forum today where someone is claiming to have the print copy we screened and they are claiming to be scanning it. I can tell you that with The Senator print, that is absolutely not true. The print we screened was hidden away after we screened it. I do know that it has not been uncanned since we screened it.

" I saw on another forum today where someone is claiming to have the print copy we screened and they are claiming to be scanning it."

...I wonder if this is the "news" negative1 said we'd find out in a couple of years.

Bingowings said:

I'm not anti-SE as such.

I'm very much against it being the default version and the OUT being tucked away as The Apocryphon Of St Marcia.

I wouldn't be anti-SE if I could purchase clean scans of the original theatrical releases of these films. The copies I have on DVD are dirty scans. Star Wars has awful film weave, too. I thought Steven Spielberg did a great job with his release of ET to DVD. He included the original theatrical release and the 2002 Anniversary Edition; both as clean scans.

lpd said:

Hey HewittYoda did you take any pictures? And welcome to the forums.

Hey lpd -- I do have pictures from that night, but not the kind that everyone here would want to see. I didn't get a chance to take screen shot pictures because I was working the event. At the time, I kept thinking I should take more pictures, but I was absolutely basking in the glow of the screenings. My pictures are more random; the marquee, the crowds, the theatre after it emptied out, etc.

Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda said:

HewittYoda said:

The only person who truly knows was the theatre's famed projectionist and he passed away last November.

Under suspicious circumstances, no doubt. :)

LOL!!

Actually, he passed away from health issues. He was in his 70s and a master of his craft. He was one of the top projectionists in the nation and the absolute top projectionist on the east coast. He was always interesting to talk to, very involved with film preservation, and one of the last of a dying breed.

^Still younger than Frink :-(

I pretty much know where a good portion of all IB prints in the world are, including the one screened, because they are all owned by the same individual, who has been collecting them the last while. I think this person has three or four by now. Apparently the Senator print was in rougher shape than first thought in terms of small scratches.

He also has more than one print.