A fascinating, detailed, and film-geeky look at the restoration of the original Star Wars trilogy.

Note: This is about the actual film stock restoration itself, and not (very much) about the new content. I remember watching this documentary (Star Wars: The Magic and Mystery) on the 1997 Special Edition VHS copy, about how when they got the negatives out of the Fox Studios vault, they were horrified at how deteriorated (mostly, blue and faded) the stock was. Sounds like an epic effort. The big pity: for a fleeting moment, there existed a perfect, restored original copy of Star Wars. Then they made the Special Edition changes, permanently altering the original negatives. (In 1997, digital technology wasn’t satisfactory, so the SE was mostly done by re-cutting the original stock.)