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Original Film Print of Star Wars Has Been Restored And Available Online
Website Offers A New Hope
Our friends over at i09 have discovered that someone has restored and stuck up a version of Star Wars: A New Hope online.
Team Negative One found an original 35mm film print of the first Star Wars movie, and have spent years cleaning it up, scanning each frame of film and digitally restoring it to make the cleanest version of the original movie as possible. You can check out a video comparing the state of the original film reel and the final, cleaned version below:
Team Negative One’s restoration is meant to be more faithful than the only publicly released HD version of the cinema cuts made available as DVD bonuses in a 2006 release of the original trilogy (which themselves were taken from the Laserdisc release of the movies and suffered from detail loss in the transfer process).
It’s by no means a perfect restoration, as there is some graininess and colour differences, and you won’t get the sharp image of the Blu-ray releases, changes and all, but it’s the closest that there’s ever been to a true restoration of the original Star Wars.
Because of the highly dubious legal footing of releasing the restoration, Negative One has remained relatively quiet about putting the restored film online; it began seeding its way through the internet about a month ago, but it’s only just started receiving wider attention as more and more fans discover it.
Obviously because of this, we can’t directly link to where to download the restoration, but should you desire to see it, it’s not exactly difficult to find if you go looking.
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