Trying to find some context/background to understand the significance:
> As some of you may be aware, a few months ago it was leaked that Disney were restoring the theatrical cuts of the OT. Basically, a malfunctioning automatic upload script resulted in clips of an official restoration of the theatrical OT being publicly uploaded to YouTube. To my knowledge, the clips were meant to be saved to an unlisted playlist as a fallback for their internal file sharing system, but an error in the script made it so the videos were posted to a publicly viewable playlist which meant anyone could view/download them.
My friend sent me a copy of the leaks back in July, which consisted of some clips from all 3 films as well as internal documents. The clips blow the 4K UHD/Disney + version out of the water in terms of both detail and color. If you compare these screenshots to a project like 4K77 or Despecialized you can see that the YouTube clips have fine detail simply not available to fan projects, and that's with YouTube compression. The cropping and damage is also different, which shows these are not just doctored images from pre-existing fan projects, and are taken from higher quality sources.
d3Xt3r•2mo ago