I’d like to be more excited by Disney’s TV stuff. It was a step closer to the real thing but in the end it was still inhuman junk. It’s main purpose was the dominate the TV dial with import sweatshop labor. It’s no different that filling stores with cheap T shirts.

To it’s credit, you could tell there were talents at various stages of production, it shows, but it’s still depressingly cheap. Not cheap on the screen exactly, but cheap in that they wouldn’t pay anyone to paint the cels unless their health insurance was provided by a foreign government. The kind of cheap that spreads the production so far around the planet nobody knows each other and both collective bargaining and artistic cohesion are impossible.

Well that just sounds like Disney in general if you ask me. Walt himself was hardly the saint everyone thinks he was.

Original SW Trilogy in 4K ??

https://www.thedigitalfix.com/film/content/105409/star-wars-4k/

If so, expect lots of LD boxsets and LD Players flooding eBay soon, maybe a good time to catch them cheap!

Julien

Original SW Trilogy in 4K ??

https://www.thedigitalfix.com/film/content/105409/star-wars-4k/

If so, expect lots of LD boxsets and LD Players flooding eBay soon, maybe a good time to catch them cheap!

Julien

If so, expect lots of LD boxsets and LD Players flooding eBay soon, maybe a good time to catch them cheap!

I'd say Disney are trying to do the same thing that fans have been doing for a few years now. Using actually film reels of the first theatrical versions of OT, multiple sources to get the best parts from various prints. Although in the case of the fan efforts the sources used are 35mm.

Yes the TN1 effort was 1080p but there are 4k77 and 4k83 releases now, DNR and non-DNR. 4k80 was being worked on last I heard.

Definitely. I'm pretty content with my LDs and burned off fan project BDs to be quite honest.

I'd say Disney are trying to do the same thing that fans have been doing for a few years now. Using actually film reels of the first theatrical versions of OT, multiple sources to get the best parts from various prints. Although in the case of the fan efforts the sources used are 35mm.

Yes the TN1 effort was 1080p but there are 4k77 and 4k83 releases now, DNR and non-DNR. 4k80 was being worked on last I heard.

I can’t imagine anything is actually lost from Star Wars. It was a full studio effort with no period of un-popularity in its entire history. If they make a BR from anything but original negative then I’d be shocked. Fans may have used theatrical prints but that would be extraordinary ghetto for Disney to do that in 2019.

I'm just in a way glad to hear this so people can actually collect LDs for a real reason

You don’t need anything “untouched”, you build the exact edit again from the highest quality source available which should be at least one if not three generations earlier than any theatrical print. I’m just saying this based on how prints are mass produced.

If the “original” edit is indeed lost then that means nobody has seen it in 40 years so I can’t imagine why anyone would care. I don’t exactly follow all this Star Wars crap, I confess. If you had even the gnarliest copy as long as every frame was there you could build it again from the same elements used to make all the other edits. If the editing script existed that would work.

I’m sure the fan edits are great. The Droids and cosplay and everything else is. However using theatrical prints for a 4K restoration would be like using Spotify rips for Super Audio CD. You really need to wring everything you have out of the source when it comes to 4K or else it looks exactly like 1080p.

70mm print of Star Wars was shown at a special event alongside the Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Interestingly this 70mm print was an 'immaculate' PRE special edition version of the film taken from a print to be used in the UK in 1981 but was never shown due to a minor tear. The only difference between the version shown and that shown in 1977 was the addition of 'A New Hope' to the opening crawl.

the original material has come from a "variety of source ... much of the original film and negative stock was in poor condition even before George worked on the Special Editions" and the restoration team sought out the "best possible version" of each scene within the LucasFilm and Fox archives.