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The project also restored the original Italian trailer for the film, which Leo produced using the video from the original US trailer and audio from low-definition copies, as well as completely remaking the text sections.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2013-06-29|title=Trailer dell'edizione despecializzata di Guerre Stellari (1977)|url=https://doppiaggiitalioti.com/2013/06/29/trailer-delledizione-despecializzata-di-guerre-stellari-1977/|access-date=2021-10-21|website=Doppiaggi italioti|language=it-IT|archive-date=2021-04-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210412153653/https://doppiaggiitalioti.com/2013/06/29/trailer-delledizione-despecializzata-di-guerre-stellari-1977/|url-status=live}}</ref>

== Team Negative 1, Project 4K77, and subsequent restorations ==

== Alternate projects ==

Although widely praised, some have remarked that Harmy's Despecialized Editions are still technically reconstructions using digital effects and upscaling of low quality sources,<ref>{{cite AV media|people=Harmáček, Petr (Director)|date=2021-03-11|title=Introducing the Despecialized Edition and Its Sources|type=Motion Picture|language=en|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDz8VMMJU6I&t=767s|access-date=2023-07-25|___location=Czech Republic|publisher=Harmáček, Petr}}</ref> rather than truly unaltered preservations. This lead to subsequent efforts to improve on it, such as the ''Silver Screen Edition''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Info-Improving-Silver-Screen-Edition-colors-on-the-cheap/id/49565|title=Info: Improving Silver Screen Edition colors on the cheap|author=Dreamaster|date=2016-04-22|website=Original Trilogy.com|access-date=2023-07-25}}</ref> and ''Skywalker Edition.''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/4K77-Released/id/60815/page/17#1241141|title=**4K77** - Released - Original Trilogy|author=Collipso|date=2018-09-18|website=Original Trilogy.com|access-date=2023-07-25}}</ref>

''Star Wars 4K77'' is a fan project to scan and restore original 35mm prints of ''Star Wars'' from 1977. The project name refers to the [[4K resolution]] used and the film's release year of 1977. In 2016, a few 35mm prints were located and donated to a group of fans called "Team Negative 1" (TN1), who scanned these prints at 4K resolution. TN1 released the film online in May 2018, first in the form of a 4K UHD file and then a [[1080p]] downscale. According to the ''Project 4K77'' website, 97% of the restored video came from a single print that was dubbed in Spanish, with the remainder from an alternate print and some frames upscaled from the official Lucasfilm Blu-ray.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Project 4K77 {{!}} The Star Wars Trilogy|url=https://www.thestarwarstrilogy.com/project-4k77/|access-date=2020-10-04|language=en-US|archive-date=2020-10-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201028162528/https://www.thestarwarstrilogy.com/project-4k77/|url-status=live}}</ref>

TN1One followedof ''4K77''these withefforts, ''Project 4K834K77,'', basedis ona anfan project to scan and restore original 35mm printprints of ''ReturnStar ofWars'' from 1977. The project name refers to the [[4K resolution]] used and the Jedi'film's (releasedrelease inyear 1983)of that1977. wasIn discovered2016, a few 35mm prints were located and donated to a group of fans called "Team Negative 1" (TN1), who scanned these prints at 4K resolution. TN1 released the film online in May 2018, first in the form of a 4K UHD file and then a [[1080p]] downscale. According to theirthe ''Project 4K77'' website, this97% of the restored video came from a single print requiredthat littlewas cleanupdubbed in Spanish, andwith the restorationremainder wasfrom releasedan inalternate Octoberprint 2018and some frames upscaled from the official Lucasfilm Blu-ray.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Project 4K834K77 {{!}} The Star Wars Trilogy|url=https://www.thestarwarstrilogy.com/project-4k834k77/|access-date=2020-10-04|language=en-US|archive-date=2020-10-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/2020102816254720201028162528/https://www.thestarwarstrilogy.com/project-4k834k77/|url-status=live}}</ref>

TN1 followed ''4K77'' with ''Project 4K804K83'', abased restorationon an original 35mm print of ''TheReturn Empireof Strikesthe BackJedi'' (1980released in 1983), that was begundiscovered byand TN1scanned in 2020,4K. reportingAccording that although they haveto multipletheir printswebsite, somethis were faded and theyprint required substantially morelittle cleanup, withand athe projectedrestoration two-yearwas timereleased framein toOctober complete2018.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Project 4K804K83 {{!}} The Star Wars Trilogy|url=https://www.thestarwarstrilogy.com/project-4k804k83/|access-date=2020-10-04|language=en-US|archive-date=2020-10-0128|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/2020100105581220201028162547/https://www.thestarwarstrilogy.com/project-4k804k83/|url-status=live}}</ref> TN1 released a subsequent improved V2.0 of this restoration in 2023, which contains more "theatrically accurate" colors due to a technical error when encoding the original release.

''Project 4K80'', a restoration of ''The Empire Strikes Back'' (1980), was begun by TN1 in 2020, reporting that although they have multiple prints, some were faded and they required substantially more cleanup, with a projected two-year time frame to complete.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Project 4K80 {{!}} The Star Wars Trilogy|url=https://www.thestarwarstrilogy.com/project-4k80/|access-date=2020-10-04|language=en-US|archive-date=2020-10-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201001055812/https://www.thestarwarstrilogy.com/project-4k80/|url-status=live}}</ref>. This is because unlike 4K77 and 4K83, which were either primarily or entirely sourced from a single print, none of the prints available for 4K80 were complete. Each of the six sources used also had their own unique color timing, meaning additional re-grading was needed to match each source's colors to one another.

The restoration team has since discovered a second print of ''The Empire Strikes Back'' (1980), substantially more complete and in better condition than the sources used up to that point. TN1 has announced intentions to eventually use this as the basis of a V2.0 with more theatrically accurate colors, similar to 4K83's V2.0, and have also announced intentions to do the same for 4K77 using since acquired prints. When discussing TN1's projects, Harmy expressed that he considered them "vastly superior" restorations to the Despecialized Editions.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/4K77-Released/id/60815/page/7#1211042|title=**4K77** - Released - Original Trilogy|last=Harmáček|first=Petr|date=2018-08-26|website=Original Trilogy.com|access-date=2023-07-25|quote=I have previously already recommended the SSE over DeEdv2.7 and this one is vastly superior to the SSE, so I’d definitely recommend this as the go to version, at least for now}}</ref>

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