Lucas claims the cyan record is out of sync or out of alignment or something, so it's impossible to use the seps. Impossible my foot - it's just another one of George's lame excuses.
Any time he says it's "impossible" to restore the original versions, it means "I don't want to because I have an irrational hatred of them."
TServo2049 said:
Lucas claims the cyan record is out of sync or out of alignment or something, so it's impossible to use the seps. Impossible my foot - it's just another one of George's lame excuses.
Any time he says it's "impossible" to restore the original versions, it means "I don't want to because I have an irrational hatred of them."
Pollyanna had a defective magenta sep. Thankfully, the colours in the negative fade at different rates, with yellow (which determines positive blue) going first. Enough magenta was left in the negative to fix the problem.
Even if the negative, seps, dupes, prints, IB prints are all too faded/damaged/contrasty to use, the damage can be fixed by Lowry (at the expense of grain), and the movie can be digitally colourized (at the expense of looking somewhat fake). Just get Bob Harris or Ron Smith or Grover Crisp or someone else who knows what they're doing to supervise the process.
BTW, Lucas is not an artist - he's a businessman. He'll release the original versions when he's done milking the others.
lurker77 said:
BTW, Lucas is not an artist - he's a businessman. He'll release the original versions when he's done milking the others.
He's a businessman who THINKS he's an artist... maybe not.
This reminds me. I need to finish my Jedi set one of these days.