Rescuing Star Wars

[Graham Ritchie]

Yep, these people have the right idea.

[Osi Osgood]

I've seen that video!

[Ed Gordon]

When Lucas replaced the original special effects in A New Hope, the fans went a bit crazy. There a many "Fan Edit" versions out there that took footage from old prints, VHS tapes, etc, to create the original. A link to one of the fan edits is below.

I recently watched one of those "making of" specials that came with a boxed set of Star Wars. Lucas pointed out that they ran out of time and money to finish Star Wars and 20th Century Fox told him to wrap it up with the budget he had. When the money for A New Hope rolled in, he decided to finish the film he intended to make. I can't fault him for that. I do fault the introduction of Jar Jar Binks. The film world would be better off all the Star Wars prequels were permanently lost.

[Rodney Bourke]

Rescuing Star Wars that's Funny as.

Reminds me of all those Disney Movie Viewer Cartridges by Mettoy.

Even Derann made some of those very Short Films.


https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/325466913344

[Osi Osgood]

Well, there IS a group that went way out of they're way to exactly preserve, frame by frame, the original release versions of the original trilogy. These are called the "Despecialized" versions. They searched for absolute best 35mm elements, even, in some cases, existing 70mm elements, to give us today, what we once had, and they are to truly applauded for it! Not only did they do color correction on line up with the original color schemes, but went, frame by frame, to clean up the images, but leave all the grain intact.

[Rob Young]

Project 4K77 | The Star Wars Trilogy

This version is amazing. You even get a choice of grain or DNR. And a choice of soundtrack; 16mm mono, 35mm Dolby or 70mm Dolby 6 track.

The DNR version with 70mm 6 track is spectacular.

It makes the Blu-ray version look like IT was made by amateurs.

[Rodney Bourke]

The official original "STAR WARS" movie Viewer. 1978 KENNER 1970s toy is on there now.

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/39450443...Bk9SR6b7vf34YQ

[Osi Osgood]

I agree, Rob. Those good folks really returned SW to what I saw in the theaters.