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So, I looked in my email inbox and there was an email from google reporting this. I have requested a review to get it removed, hopefully will be gone in a day or two.

wasn't that one of the criticisms of the Making of SW book, that movie photos were from the SE, but not notated as such?  ...i'm probably confusing books...

Actually, I would say a Lucas employee would never say that, since I think Puggo was suggesting it was an unintended shot at the SE--the Jabba CG is so bad people thought it was from the 70s.

I've heard people insist, with total confidence, that every shot in the special edition is new and that's because in the original they just held the ships up with wires, like an Ed Wood movie. And then you have a whole other breed who don't know that anything has been done to it, and still think it looks crude next to the new ones.

Is there anything here you could use?

Anchorhead: Thanks for the correction; page has been updated. And thanks for the praise. I have to say, the feeling is mutual: reading your posts and interacting with you the last few years has given me an invaluable insight into the films that I doubt I would have otherwise. You are a rare breed of fan that most people my age don't get access to, and it sort of saddens me to think of the loss that people will have when they don't have first-hand access to people that have been around since 1977 but didn't keep up with the Lucasfilm machine.

005: I decided to post news on the CNET article, so thanks for bringing that to everyones attention. I will also be updating the SE page soon with your newer screenshot efforts.

None: As far as I remember, Rinzler's recent SW book was frighteningly accurate about portraying the films as they were, instead of how Lucas today wishes they were. Not 100% of course, there are a few inaccuracies, but in any book that size there will be.

Zombie, I'm not sure if it's been brought up here at the boards yet, but there's an interview up at thedigitalbits with the answer to your question about the Apocalypse Now BD.

http://thedigitalbits.com/articles/apocalypse/interview01.html

Basically they scanned the 2001 IP (The Redux IP), restored and color-corrected it and, for the '79 version, simply conformed it to that edit. Since it's a relatively simple difference in edits, both versions are seamlessly branched onto a single disc. I expect that BD-50 to be packed to the brim!

Baronlando said:

I've heard people insist, with total confidence, that every shot in the special edition is new and that's because in the original they just held the ships up with wires, like an Ed Wood movie.

What an awful comparison.

Baronlando said:

I've heard people insist, with total confidence, that every shot in the special edition is new and that's because in the original they just held the ships up with wires, like an Ed Wood movie. And then you have a whole other breed who don't know that anything has been done to it, and still think it looks crude next to the new ones.

I think the standard response to such nonsense should be....

Thanks Bingo, I was finally able to get to sleep last night and now it's back to no sleep....

btw stupid question but is that Gene Wilder?

Donald Sutherland from the 78's remake of 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers'.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077745/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_the_Body_Snatchers_(1978_film)

Bingowings said:

Going with the idea of the dishonesty/ignorance behind the CNET article, here's another example.  The Science Channel had a program last year called "The Science of the Movies".  In the first episode they interview John Dykstra about motion-control technology. One of the opening quotes goes like this:

It's a technology which allows filmmakers to do the seemingly impossible.  Turn tiny models into colossal spaceships.

and they cut to the SE Death Star approach shot.

So what I figure could be done is we can take these kind of shows and insert the original shot, so people can see the difference.  I've taken this programs opening segment and inserted the OT shot, let me know what you all think.

http://noneinc.com/SSW/SotM-002-half_h264/  SotM-002-half_h264-desktop.m4v  (8 min. 57 mb)

This version uses the whole segment, but probably it's best to severly cut out the extraneous, so this can probably be whittled down to 2-4 minutes.  Used the Wookiegroomer Splits for the additional clip source.