"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. 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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