![]() And until there's an official release of the unaltered trilogy on Blu-ray (keep the hope alive!), it's probably the best way to watch Han shoot first. If you're willing to bend the law a little bit, though, a fan-restored 35mm print of the original has been floating around the web and garnered a solid amount of interest recently. George Lucas has infamously disowned the original theatrical releases, standing by his CGI-filled Special Editions from the late '90s. The incoming ESB DeEd 2.5 will use poita's scans, for example.If you want to watch the original, unaltered version of Star Wars from 1977 legally your options are essentially nonexistent. Harmy no longer uses the GOUT or similar looking elements, he now uses film scans (starting with RotJ DeEd 2.5). I think whatever print they used for the opening it's from 1979, not 1977-78, based on the movement of the Star Wars logo.Īlso, your info about Harmy is very outdated. I also wonder about what print they took the opening crawl and logo from, because IIRC their main print was a spanish LPP from 1981, that means spanish crawl and alien subtitles and A New Hope episode title. The print wasn't in the best condition, and the homemade scanner generated a lot of smearing in light elements (you can see that with some of the patterns in the Death Star walls, specially in the control room where Tarkin and Leia speak or in the shot where the heroes are dressing and cleaning their clothes after having survived the trash conpactor). But the Star Wars blurays are a mess in general). First, it's based on a dupe of a theatrical print, that means one generation away from the original negatives (theatrical prints are three generations from ONs, they're made from internegatives which are made from interpositives which are made from ONs), so you have even less quality and a lot more grain (bluray quality? Nope. TLDR: Some Goddamned hero made a Blu Ray quality theatrical cut of A New Hope and sweet baby jesus it's incredible.Īnd sadly, as much as I was happy with SSE 1.6, it's not a very good scan. This "Silver Screen Edition" is all from a high resolution source and is the absolute best you will get until Disney commissions a proper restoration of the film from the original camera negatives, if they ever do. Harmy's version is good, but it uses a variety of lower quality sources like the Laserdiscs, 2006 bonus DVD, clever editing, and rotoscoping to crop out the changes and CG additions made in the movies. They're also working on restorations of The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, which they acquired theatrical prints for while working on this project. It took them about 3 years of that work, and this is the end result. For reference, there are 24 frames/images in one second of a movie. Film degrades over time, and colors fade, so everything had to be painstakingly edited. He then put together a team, which he called TeamNegative1, of very savvy video editors who could go through and clean up the dirt, print damage, and color correct everything on a frame by frame basis. It took them about a year to go through and capture all of the frames, including some trial and error. Since he didn't have a film scanner, he basically built a homemade reel scanner and used a Canon DSLR camera to capture the film frame by frame, with super high resolution and color depth. ![]() Silver Screen edition:A user called Negative1 was able to acquire a very well preserved 35mm print from someone online.It looks and sounds on par with any Blu ray of the films I've seen, and seeing it without any of the nonsense edits really just made my whole night. I definitely suggest everyone download it and check it out. I haven't seen the theatrical cut since I wore out the VHS tapes when I was a kid and it was an incredible experience. ![]() So the negative one "Silverscreen edition"* of Star Wars (episode IV A New Hope not include) Is absolutely gorgeous. ||| Join our Discord! ||| Question? Check our FAQ ||| /r/StarWarsKenobi ||| /r/BookOfBobaFett ||| Upcoming SW Media ||| Please note that even if formatted correctly, spoilers are only allowed in threads marked If you want to make a spoiler all you gotta do is put ">!" in front of and "!!Many Bothans died.!< List includes movies, tv-shows and games. Mods have the final say.įrequently Asked Questions Come chat with us Join our Discord!Ĭlick here to contact the Discord moderators directly Upcoming SW Media Posts / comments can be removed under mods discretion.Message the mods for permission before posting established Star Wars related subreddits.Link to original news sources, and don't editorialize.No sexualization of people or characters. ![]()
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