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Many times, it has been said that George Lucas has used a
Technicolor print as the reference for the SE editions.
Through the last few years, we have come up with some
more information about that.
Take it for what you will.
First though. A reference:
“Actually, we used George Lucas’ personal Tech IB print for comparison when I worked on the digital color-correction of Star Wars and Jedi at ILM in San Rafael. You can always make the argument that all previous home video versions looked different, but this was the only version that was actually supervised and approved by the director. Good or bad, it’s what he specifically wanted.”
Now this person is accredited, so it might be right.
However, from what we know, basically George Lucas consulted
with the film collector community, and ended up borrowing
the IB Tech print that might have been used as a reference.
Yes, they have negatives, and better sources. But they didn’t
have time to really use the Tech, or do much with it.
Remember the IB Tech print from the Senator screening, well that and
about 4 other Techs are out there. All of them have damage on them,
and need to be cropped heavily. Almost all have been scanned now,
and will be digitally combined, but not by Disney or FOX.
Time will tell how this actually plays out.
Also the claims of not having enough time to clean and restore
the prints, along with the cost of it are questionable also.
Team Negative1