SDCC news - OUT "quite likely" on Blu-ray — Page 3

Not destroyed, not by a long shot. The original negative is conformed to the special edition edit and may no longer be viable as the basis for a restoration unless the pieces that got altered/replaced were in fact put into storage back in '96. Even if they were, I'm pretty sure the optical shots had completely faded beyond repair by the mid-90's because of the unstable film-stock used to composite them (they were thrown out and re-composited digitally), so they would need a second-generation source anyway.

For this and other reasons, it might make more sense to simply use an interpositive or the separation masters and use that as a starting point for an OOT restoration. Even then, it would still take a little thing called "time" and some "effort," both of which would require something called "money" to be spent. That's all George really meant.

The Library of Congress apparently has a pretty good copy of the holiday special. Don't remember what format it's on though.

canofhumdingers said:

The Library of Congress apparently has a pretty good copy of the holiday special. Don't remember what format it's on though.

No. Just no. For the love of all things good and holy. NO.

SilverWook said:

Well, they probably have a copy of some of Ed Wood's movies too. ;)

I would imagine the Museum of Broadcast Communications in Chicago would have a copy of the HS in their archives as well.

I have accidentally misread it as Museum of Broadcast Communists.

FrederikOlsen said:

canofhumdingers said:

The Library of Congress apparently has a pretty good copy of the holiday special. Don't remember what format it's on though.

No. Just no. For the love of all things good and holy. NO.

^I can't imagine that's true on multiple levels.

I can imagine she has a copy.  I seriously doubt she asked for one as compensation, got paid with one, or that she was paid with one by Lucas.

Huh.  Weird.

^ Some of the comments under your clips are unbelievable. Makes you just want to weep at the lack of knowlege and understanding some people have. Well done for putting these guys right.

Do you see comments below videos? I haven't seen any in weeks, all I get is "comments currently unavailable"

Never, ever, ever read YT comments 

I know, nothing ever good comes of it. Makes your head spin.

Similar to reading posts on the Jedi council forum ;)

Wolfman said:

I know, nothing ever good comes of it. Makes your head spin.

Similar to reading posts on the Jedi council forum ;)

Or what about TFN (the force.net)? They will permanently ban you if you even mention the OUT or have the slightest dislike of the prequels and/or the special editions.

The Jedi Council forums are part of TF.N

Tobar said:

Laserschwert said:

I'll try to ask about the OOT on Blu-ray at the panel.

So how was CEII? =)

I was only there one day, but it was pretty good. Unfortunately the "important" panels (Kathleen Kennedy, Carrie Fisher) were pretty much scripted. Other panels (Ben Burtt, Doug Chiang) were open for audience questions (and really informative - especially Burtt showing some of his private Super8 films from the making of the movies, including going through the landfill behind Elstree, where he showed stuff like the trashed Falcon and even stumbling across a wall from The Well of Souls).

The bigger ones just took "Twitter questions", so you can imagine that those only consisted of stuff like "What's your favourite film?" or "What does your typical day look like?"