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Google "Star Wars Silver Screen edition". Fan edit made from original prints. No CGI, no color correction, no 5.1 surround sound. Just Star Wars as it was shown in theaters in 1976.
There's also 4K77, and Harmy's Despecialized edition. Last I had heard, 4k77 was the highest quality original theatrical version.
Lucas is frantically making calls to his goons. They were instructed to destroy every single copy, incompetence!
Manny Bothans died to bring us this first print.
Manny is a got damned hero.
As the article states, this was screened at the London BFI the other day. It's an original technicolour print from 1977. There's a ten minute video about it here.
I've heard interviews with the people at the BFI and if I remember correctly, they have a film scanner capable of 12k scans. The films in the archive all get digital scans made for backup purposes.
So sitting on a hard drive, somewhere at the BFI, is probably a huge 4K scan of this very print.
But I presume the best we will have access to is 4K77.
Kennedy went on to say that anyone who comes into the Lucasfilm fold to create a new “Star Wars” project is shown Lucas’ 1977 movie because it’s “the gold standard” of storytelling.
"Watch this, it's the gold standard of storytelling. Now make the complete opposite lol"
Do variety's headline writers get paid by the apostrophe or something?
Sounds like we're getting new copies made, 120 bucks a pop for the 4k!
Yo ho ho. Sharing is caring.
Meanwhile those of us who have a copy of the silverscreen edition, that was put together by fans getting a hold of as many discarded prints of the original release as possible to digitize, have been enjoying this version for a decade or so.
Still hoping they can manage a silverscreen edition of Empire Strikes Back.
Digitization and release when
Specialize it ASAP!
I don't know what Disney's pullis on the og prints, but this would be massive pull to Disney+.
“49 times, we fought that beast, your old man and I. It has a chicken head and duck feet and a woman’s face too.”