Much internet blood has been spilled in fights over the so-called “ Special Editions” of the original Star Wars trilogy. Finally, after all these years, the original, unaltered Star Wars is out there for the public to consume. Team Negative1 have labelled the restoration, quite appropriately, The Silver Screen Edition. For those who know where to look, the film is available, in full HD, looking extremely close to what audiences at the time must have seen. In January, a group online calling themselves Team Negative1, consisting of about five anonymous Star Wars fans, released into the wilds of the internet a digitally restored copy of Star Wars, sourced from a 35mm low-fade release print from some time after the film’s initial release. That original version, the one released to cinemas in 1977, has been practically unavailable for decades. First in 1997 with the Special Edition, and then in 2004 with the DVD release, all the way up to the most recent Blu-ray and digital releases of the film, there have been a nearly endless number of changes, everything from dialogue replacement to fully computer animated effects sequences. No longer just Star Wars, the film was now Star Wars, Episode IV: A New Hope. When the film was re-released into theatres in 1981, the “original” version was already gone. Unless you were alive and aware in 1977, the movie we call Star Wars is not, in fact, the same Star Wars that crowds lined up around city blocks got to see when the lights finally dimmed and the 20th Century Fox fanfare subsided.
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