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Found this "news" item on in70mm.com: ""Lawrence of Arabia" is being scanned at 8k toward the creation of a new negative." No link to the rumor is given, but, if true, it is a welcomed news item.

I think it could be argued that the current version of LOA is not really Lean's "definitive" version since he also wanted to have that balcony scene fully restored. Unfortunately time and technology did not allow for it, so he had to live with what was possible. If it does indeed get restored...

First, my apologies for the multiple, repetitive posting--I was trying to update and delete some posts and ended up doing neither. Anyway, I did run across this quote from Mr. Harris on the Criterion Laserdisc release. He said that the additional materials would include: "The entire script...

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Quote: Originally Posted by AdrianTurner I'd also love to see the Finney test included, plus a new interview, though it's hard to see the normally diffident Mr F agreeing to that. There was also a wonderful documentary made by the BBC in the 1980s called Lawrence and Arabia which...

If you are looking for more information on the restoration, here is a a link to an interview with Robert Harris from 1989. http://www.davidlean.com/writings/Articles/Articles/restoring_lawrence.html

I'm also wondering if there would be an interest in the "controversy" over the Robert Bolt and Michael Wilson screen credit? You covered it fully in your own book on "Lawrence" (which I luckily have a copy of) and it is very important to the film's full history. Not to denigrate Bolt's...

1. The complete restoration of the Lawrence/Allenby scene on the balcony. (Harris has said this could be done) 2. Isolated Score 3. A remastered transfer pulled from the 65mm print and scanned at 4k, removing dust/dirt/etc. 3a - Along the same lines, a remastering of the audio to...