Every time I consider watching the original trilogy (it's been years and years), this sort of thing pops up to remind me I have no idea what I'm actually looking at.  It's this kind of nonsense that tells me we need a new Star Wars, not a new Star Wars movie, but a new franchise, so we don't have to worry about this nonsense.

It is interesting to see just the insane amount of work restoring a flick can be, and crazier too is the fact that while it's normally done by film studios, this is being done by fans for free.  If the rightsholders have any brains whatsoever, they'd pay these guys to finish their work and put out a limited release.  There's a market for it, might as well make some money off it.


It's really funny to see the digital still camera attached to the film projector.  I kinda figured that film got scanned in like on a flatbed scanner, but that-- that works too, evidently.  There must be, like, a hard drive or something attached to the camera collecting all those stills (can you imagine how much SPACE that would take?  And what resolution are the stills, I think I saw 5.0 Megapixels on there!)