Google āStar Wars Silver Screen editionā. 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.
Thereās also 4K77, and Harmyās 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. Itās an original technicolour print from 1977. Thereās a ten minute video about it here.
Iāve 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.
Do varietyās headline writers get paid by the apostrophe or something?
Sounds like weāre getting new copies made, 120 bucks a pop for the 4k!
Yo ho ho. Sharing is caring.
Kennedy went on to say that anyone who comes into the Lucasfilm fold to create a new āStar Warsā project is shown Lucasā 1977 movie because itās āthe gold standardā of storytelling.
āWatch this, itās the gold standard of storytelling. Now make the complete opposite lolā
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 donāt know what Disneyās pullis on the og prints, but this would be massive pull to Disney+.
ā49 times, we fought that beast, your old man and I. It has a chicken head and duck feet and a womanās face too.ā
