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

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 leadled 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>

One of these efforts, ''Project 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>