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- 4K77 - Released
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Testing.
Yes, that’s much better.
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Yes, I used a single grade for the whole print. Here’s how that shot looks currently:
I’ll probably take another look at the colors when I’m done stabilizing, see if I can make it any better. I still see some pink in the snow there.
It came on 2 reels. The telecine wobble is just as bad on our copy too, because that’s how it was printed. I had stabilized the whole film to the sprocket holes, but when I went to watch it the film still wobbled all over the place:
So now I’m going shot by shot, stabilizing to the picture which takes a little longer.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like the print we borrowed for scanning was in very good shape. There was a fair amount of warping which made it twist and turn in the film gate, causing distortion and “focus breathing” too, but it’s still fun to watch.
benduwan said:
will there be release of the SPFX: making of the empire strikes back too?Yes, I’m working on that right now actually. It will be a bonus feature with 4K80.
That looks like a two-color print, as opposed to a faded full-color film.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but is there much you can do with that sort of film? Reds and skintones should be easy to fix, but either the green or blue is missing or maybe even mixed together?
That’s after some color correction - it is faded to pink:
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will there be release of the SPFX: making of the empire strikes back too?
Yes, I’m working on that right now actually. It will be a bonus feature with 4K80.
I’ve never noticed that before! I don’t have 4K77 but can confirm that the lightsabre glitch looks exactly the same in the corresponding frame of Harmy’s Despecialized Edition.
So it’s just meant to be there?
Yes, that’s how it is on all original prints.
will there be as bonus the making of star wars release?
Yes, we have scanned 2 x 16mm prints. Just need to clean them up.
Based on the provided info on 4K77’s webpage, 97% of the film comes from a Spanish print. If that’s accruate, I assume the other 3% is for the opening scrawl, end credits, and damaged frames?
I’m unsure about the audio source for the SSE, but is all the audio for 4K77 from the GOUT or does is some from prints?
That’s incorrect. Waht is says on the webpage is that “97% of project 4K77 is from a single, original 1977 35mm Technicolor release print”, the other 3% is a mix of Spanish LPP, a second British IB Technicolor print, a 97 Special Edition print and 2011 Bluray (for any frames that were missing from all prints at the reel changes).
Audio is from Harmy’s Despecialized, which is mostly laserdisc sourced. All of the print audio is incomplete since there are frames missing throughout, and the LPP audio is obviously in Spanish.
Hey does anyone recommend a painless way of matching the frame size of two different sources? I’m trying to align footage from the 2020 Bluray of ESB to Harmy’s ESB Despecialized and I just can’t get it right.
Photoshop: Edit -> Auto Align Layers
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These links are still working for me.
The main 4K77 print scan is a professional scan. The 4K83 and 4K80 prints we scanned using our own custom built film scanner. Poita’s Empire prints were professionally scanned, but we don’t have access to those scans yet.
Poita scanned this same Ep IV print on a professional grade film scanner, but never released anything beyond a few samples. He may have access to the other SE prints too, but if so (as far as I know) they have not yet been scanned.
So a ‘97 35mm print of ANH was scanned, just not cleaned up?
Correct
Was this from Poita’s project?
No, this is our own scan of the same print.
What About Empire and Jedi?
Find us some prints and we’ll scan them.
There is one of Star Wars '97 A New Hope, available 1080p and UHD:
It’s been relisted
However the description says it is the whole movie but says it is only two reels. This is obviously not true, the movie is 6 reels.
It’s on 2 x 6000 foot reels. That’s the whole film. (Normally 6 x 2000’ reels)
Interesting that they can sell 4K80 even before it’s been finished or released! Maybe I should buy a copy to see how it turns out.
Spaceballs the Videotape!
Perhaps this is what you are looking for:
https://forum.fanres.com/thread-2899.html
It recreates the laserdisc content (including the extra logos) using Bluray footage and laserdisc audio.
This thread is about the scanning of a theatrical release print, so, this version would be the theatrical cut.
I know of at least one cut that was made on all the British prints: the scene in Cuba after the plane crash where the Xenia slides down the rope and attacks Bond, the “good” girl tries to intervene and is grabbed by the bad girl and told to “wait your turn” before being pushed to the ground. That 10 seconds or so is not in any of the British prints. It is however in this print, so I believe this is the uncut version.
Great - thanks!
Can anybody here capture this?
I don’t know if this would be of any help, but I caught Highlander on TV and it was the theatrical cut, in widescreen and HD. It also has the shot of the cop spilling coffee on himself, and presumably has the unaltered effects shots at the end.
Cool. Did you record it? If not, what channel was it on and is it going to be on again anytime soon?
The screen I saw it on in '89 was at a small seaside town in the east of England. I seriously doubt it had a 70mm setup. In fact I know it didn’t because I just checked their website and it says “The 35mm projector used from 1988 to 2013 is now on display in the theatre cafe & gallery.” So, assuming I’m not mis-remembering, and this is not The Mandella Effect, it’s more likely that British prints may have the line, while those from other markets may not.