But given that this was an analog, photochemical procedure, each generation away from that original negative introduced softness and grain into the image, making the source material for this new version softer than the negatives used for official releases. Instead, an intermediary print called an internegative - essentially, a duplicate of the final, color-corrected negative - would be used to strike the release prints that ended up in theaters. That's largely due to the elements used back in the days of film releases, prints wouldn't be struck from the original conformed negative due to the high probability of damage. To combat that damage, the scanned elements underwent digital restoration to stabilize the images, color-correct them, and remove damage and dirt - and while the end result is impressive, it's not going to be what you're used to from a modern Blu-ray release. Han shoots first, Jabba doesn't show, and not a scrap of CG The colors are there, but the damage is just insurmountable." "Even the best one, even the one that was used as a reference for the Special Edition was in terrible shape. So the ones that still exist, somebody just dug them out of dumpsters and managed to hang on to them," a representative from Team Negative1, going by the name Mr. "They all had to be destroyed after they were shown. But that project was made up of bits and pieces assembled from a variety of different sources, whereas the new Silver Screen release was pulled primarily from that single Spanish print - a bit of a coup given that the film prints aren't technically supposed to be floating around in the wild at all. There have been various fan-made restorations of the original Star Wars trilogy over the years, most famously the "Despecialized Edition," which just released an updated Return of the Jedi earlier this year. Dubbed "The Silver Screen Edition," the project was completed by an anonymous group going under the name Team Negative1, and is largely taken from a Spanish-language low-fade 35mm print, with certain sections - including the original title crawl, which had neither "Episode IV" nor "A New Hope" when first released - filled in by a faded vintage print on Kodak Eastman film stock.
The pair recruit a cynical interstellar smuggler and his outsized alien copilot with an ancient freighter heavily modified for combat to help them reach Alderaan, but the planet is obliterated and now the foursome must rescue the young woman held prisoner by the Empire and lead an attack by the rebellion against the Death Star before it can annihilate all hope of restoring freedom to the galaxy.While defaced "special editions" and numerous re-releases are the way many have experienced Star Wars, a group of dedicated fans have taken matters into their own hands, recently releasing a digitally restored version of the film pulled from 35mm prints dating back to the original release in 1977.
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While soldiers of the Empire search the nearby planet Tatooine, a series of incidents sweeps up a young desert farmer with dreams of being a fighter pilot in the rebellion, as he winds up with the Death Star plans and also the assistance of an elderly hermit who once served as a warrior of an ancient order whose chosen weapons were powerful energy swords known as light-sabers.
The dissident Senator is captured, but the plans for the Death Star are nowhere to be found. But her spacecraft is attacked by a vast warship of the Empire and seized.
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During a recent battle, technical schematics for a gigantic space station, code named the Death Star, have been unearthed by rebel spies, and a young woman who is a dissident member of the Imperial Senate, under the cover of a diplomatic mission to the planet Alderaan, is trying to smuggle these plans to the rebellion.
It is a time of civil war, as solar systems have broken away from the Empire and are waging a war of rebellion. In a distant galaxy eons before the creation of the planet known as Earth, vast civilizations have evolved, and ruling the galaxy is an interstellar Empire created from the ruins of an Old Republic that held sway for generations.