TKF821 said:
TServo2049 said:
TKF821 said:
P.S. : I own super-8 copies of the three original Star Wars movies (not 16mm). They are in English, widescreen, and stereo : no special editions, no additional FX or scenes. Just the original as we watched them back in the 70s and 80s.
Wow, you mean you have the Derann scope Super-8's? :-O That's awesome.
Derann released a super-8 copy of Star Wars in scope, and this is the one I own. But Empire and Jedi are copies that I found in Germany from an unknown source.
I don't think Derann ever issued copies of those two last movies.
Derann did release Jedi and the quality was spectacular from reviews i have read. The audio was folded down to monaural but some folks rerecorded it in stereo. I once did not bid on a print because of this reason as i wanted the theatrical audio and not audio replaced from the laserdisc.
The classic home cinema release was from a 35mm release print and had print damage.
Derann had two releases of star wars or two batches from the negative the second batch was not as good as the negative by then was in poor shape, after that batch the neg broke so they could make no more copies.
It also was the theatrical except for the episode IV redone title scroll.
I have heard of fans splicing in the 77 crawl onto the numerous 80's 35mm re-release prints.
Sometimes onto a Eastman LPP low fade copy which is very rare, but the title scroll was from a pre LPP source and was faded to reddish pinkish tint.
Imagine vandalizing a perfect copy print only to remove the Lucas addition, but fans would do this for the 77 experience. But doing so devalued the resale value of their print,lol.