Whether or not you see George Lucas ’ tinker with the original Star Wars trilogy as harmless meddling or the greatest sin consecrate in cinematic history , it ’s a shame that fan do n’t even have the choice to purchase HD versions of the original theatrical cuts . But now , at least , a doctor version of the first Star Wars is available online .
This is n’t a “ despecialized variant ” like many other fan attempts to revert Lucas ’ change . Somehow , a chemical group of fans dubbing themselves Team Negative One found an original 35 mm film print of the first Star Wars movie , and have spent class clean it up , scan each frame of film and digitally restoring it to make the cleanest version of the original moving picture as possible . you could check out a video comparing the state of the original picture reel and the concluding , houseclean version below :
Team Negative One ’s restoration is mean to be more faithful than the only in public released HD version of the theatrical cuts made usable as DVD incentive in a 2006 release of the original trilogy ( which themselves were take from the Laserdisc dismissal of the movies and suffered from detail loss in the transfer process ) . It ’s by no agency a perfect return , with some coarseness and color differences , and you wo n’t get the sharp image of the Blu - ray releases , changes and all , but it ’s the snug there ’s ever been to a truthful refurbishment of the original Star Wars .
Due to the highly dubious legality of releasing the restoration , Negative One has remained comparatively restrained about putting the restore photographic film online ; it start seed its way through the internet about a month ago , but it ’s only just started get wider attention as more and more rooter discover it . Obviously because of this , we ca n’t direct link to where to download the restoration , but should you hope to see it , it ’s not exactly difficult to find if you go looking .
you may train out the link below to see more comparability between the restoration and the original print , as well as the 2011 Blu - ray freeing of the flick .
[ StarWarsTrilogy.comviaTheForce . meshing ]
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