I love reading stories of nerds doing years of film restoration out of spite.
Here's a story of that happening with the original Star Wars:
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*Of course* the nerds restoring original Star Wars from film to spite the special edition have spent over $16,000 of their own money buying reels, having them professionally cleaned, professionally digitised (scanned at 100MB per frame), and then on the storage needed to allow editing of such a huge amount of data. And of course that's going to be nothing compared to the amount of personal love and labour put into such a project.
I'm kinda in awe, and I *love* that people do this.
