What you are looking for is this - https://www.thestarwarstrilogy.com/project-4k77/

"97% of project 4K77 is from a single, original 1977 35mm Technicolor release print, scanned at full 4K, cleaned at 4K, and rendered at 4K."

Opening scene comparison - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1b47UP6ZGI

The dedication of fans never ceases to amaze.

> When a film is professionally scanned in 16-bit color as DPX image files, every single frame weighs in at 100 MB.

> With upwards of 175,000 frames in each film, a complete scan requires about 21 TB of storage

> 42 TB if you want a backup copy!

> And then you need at least another 21 TB of space to work on it

> over $1,000 just in hard drives is therefore required for every film

You probably are not gonna to need 16 bit DPX for anything but high end compositing with CG

Your point still stands but a good quality cineform or something is plenty. And you can definitely get 21TB cheaper than 1000$

A tiny expense in the grand scheme of things. The original film stock probably cost an order of magnitude more.

That comparison is really cool. I was mostly paying attention to the 4K77 vs 2011 bluray, and in most cases I thought 4K77 looked better. Not sure why they felt the need to mess with the colors so drastically in the 2011 version.

Thank you!!!

Star Wars 4K77

A 4K fan scan of a 35mm print the was in cold storage since 1980.

It's great to see OG Star Wars looking like in did in '77, with all the optical glitches and the lower contrast with slightly green shadow bias of prints from that time. True time travel that makes the reworked releases look silly.

Another project worth a look is Harmy's fan cuts of the original trilogy, which are tastefully re-assembled from multiple sources and graded.