Posted by BB on 05/19/06 12:41

"Aaron J. Bossig" <linkvb06@SpammersWillBeExecuted.ptd.net> wrote in message
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> Kimba W. Lion <kimbawlion@noemail.com> wrote in
> news:409q62p1otdcj4fs20l6lhouen5iab68j5@4ax.com:
>
>> Derek Janssen <ejanss@nospam.comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>>>If you took the trouble to read today's Digital Bits, you'd find out
>>>that George Wasn't Kidding when he said "The prints were
>>>destroyed"...They WERE.
>>>Which, presumably, is *why* we're getting the port-dumped laserdisk
>>>pre-Special Edition transfers from ten years ago--There t'warn't
>>>nothing else in the vault.
>>>
>>>Or, if you choose, check out the USA Today interview with a Lucas exec
>>>who's clearly not happy about it either, but Gone is Gone.
>>
>> The full rant at Digital BIts presents a pretty convincing argument
>> why the "t'warn't nothin in the vault" argument doesn't hold water.
>> Even if Lucas is the complete idiot he says he is, there are still
>> materials that could be used.
>
> These were some of the most popular movies of all time. How many
> negatives, positives, interpositives and internegatives exist for these?
> How many reels of film are sitting around, waiting to be restored?
>
> Ideal circumstances? Certainly not. But come on, the material is there
> if someone really wants to do it.

Didn't the National Archives demand a clean print of the original version of
Star Wars (specifically not the Special Edition) a few years ago? That
could be a starting point.

-B

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