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A 4K restoration of The Empire Strikes Back (1980).

This is where Project 4K77 differentiates itself from a simple bootleg. The process was meticulous:

[Original 1977 35mm Prints] ➔ [4K Scanning by Team Negative1] ➔ [Digital Stabilization & Cleaning] ➔ [Decentralized Archiving]