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Topic: Wanted: The Empire Strikes Back SCOPE FEATURE
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Osi Osgood
Film God
Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted December 19, 2011 01:17 PM
Please note that there actually two versions of this feature ...
The common german print, (with German titles), in scope. A nice print, on low fade stock, though the "reel change" section of the film are a little more worn in the negative, but certainly passable.
The early 80's Cineavision style scope print. The person who released this is still a bit of a mystery. I have been talking with a fellow forum member about this and he has his theories, but I won't share the name, just in case the person is still alive or wouldn't want me to, but the print quite possibly came out of the LA region.
I say "Cineavision Style", in that the original aspect ratio is perfectly preserved with the almost perfect square "window box" treatment, (instead of the black bars of the top and bottom to do a letterbox, they are on the left and right side, giving a nearly perfect square).
... which gives the actual scope image, not cutting off any of the image that was seen in the movie theaters.
Until just recently, I didn't even know that this version existed, but being that I recieved it (I was expecting a german scope), I know that it does exist.
However, please note that this was released on Kodak SP which, depending on how it was stored, will have or will in the future, fade. The print I received is near perfect, (daytime shots are spot on, the blacks of space have the slightest tint of brown, but definitely not bad at all for a thirty year old KOdak SP!). The imgae quality is very good.
However, it is my guess that this print is exceedingly rare and may have been a "request only" print.
-------------------- "All these moments will be lost in time, just like ... tears, in the rain. "
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