Restoring the FIRST Star Wars Movie Poster

[@pixelaided5664]

Love to see craftsmen (craft persons??) and their processes. Awesome.

[@jasonbeers5511]

I love it when you do these longer form videos with the great commentary. Keep doing them like this!!

[@FourthConeRestoration]

Thanks, glad you liked it! We really enjoy making these types of videos and plan to continue sharing them into the new year 😊

[@spizzy7996]

Agreed. Even if it’s just describing the process (though hopefully not the same recording used verbatim) instead of just the music overdub ones.

[@drainyoo1]

I love watching experts do their thing. So good.

[@FourthConeRestoration]

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[@glyph2011]

Fantastic to see the original promo poster. Incredibly rare piece handled with the upmost care. 🎉🎉🎉👍👍

[@Jademalo]

Loved this, really interesting hearing about the history too! Honestly I wish it was even longer, I'd love to see and hear even more detail on the process of the vacuum table and how you specifically managed the bleaching and stabilisation of the tear. The processes are fascinating! Can't wait for the next one!

[@40momba]

Outstanding save! Great history too! Your team is top shelf! George The GlassMan

[@FourthConeRestoration]

Thank you 😊

[@Drew_73]

Absolutely amazing. You are a true artist restoring an incredible piece of cinematic and cultural history!

[@reeft]

Amazing work and I love the increased video production as well. One of my favorite channels!

[@FourthConeRestoration]

Thank you 😊

[@spacecentergames]

The art style is very cool 😊

[@LarryPJ]

Wish you would do a second version of this showing the process of foxing removal - would be super interesting (to me at least).

[@garykikiillus4005]

Always amazing work ladies!!!

[@Wawrzino]

Every poster has a history. It's nice to hear about it. I love that longer form video. I'm a Star Wars fan, but never heard about this design!

[@MikeFarnhamGalaxysEdgeGroup]

really? Its the cover of issue #1 of the comic.

[@briangorman8172]

Wow! Fantastic to see this Star Wars poster restoration and get info about its origin. I have one that I bought at a New York comic shop when I was in high school in the late 70’s. So glad I kept it and luckily it’s in very good condition.

[@FourthConeRestoration]

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it! 😊

[@Rowebot15]

I love preservation over restoration. Just halt further damage

[@ReiMonCoH]

👍🏻awesome. Would like to see more of it being done. Do more🤘🏻🤘🏻

[@gordonelgart2560]

I'm so glad you got to practice on this Chaykin before doing mine! :)

[@FourthConeRestoration]

🤣

[@waynesbutler7834]

Been binge watching your videos, very relaxing and amazing really, its like you ride the edge of cleaning and ripping. One question, what's the most popular repair ? My guess would be thumb nail tack holes in the corners.

[@blakelycreative3171]

Beautiful job. The backstory is really interesting. Careful what you dismiss or discard.ha ha

[@Max-million]

Great restoration, for me I’d keep it dirty and wouldn’t have messed with it at all.

[@Coolestmovies]

You’d be absolutely right to do that, because everything they do to these posters - as beautiful as the finished products look - degrades their value more than if they were left in their current state but secured tightly (but not permanently) in a plastic sleeve or enclosed frame. The client here sounds like he wants to preserve this in part for its future financial value, but everything they’ve done to it has robbed it of that because it’s had materials added to it (to touch up the inks, fill in the tears, etc). Based on other videos, they seem to permanently fuse/adhere them to those backing boards (and never address comments that bring it up), so that’s another layer of authenticity and collector value removed.

[@FourthConeRestoration]

@Coolestmovies All of our processes are fully reversible. We provide our services for individuals, dealers and auction houses all over the world and our services typically aim to increase the life span of ephemera which was designed to be thrown away after the promotions/events. We don’t speak to the value of pieces we work on because we are not appraisers and at the end of the day the value of collectibles are determined by the collector. Through our decades of experience within the industry, we can say that our processes do not rob the pieces of all value.

[@Max-million]

@ it’s beautiful work. Lots of talent to make these posters look so good for sure, amazing work. I think the process is more suited for family heirlooms and things with no value other than to the person/family that treasures it.

[@Coolestmovies]

@@FourthConeRestoration Thanks for following up. I was referring to you folks not addressing comments in the past about the additive and (possibly, I thought) permanent nature of the processes, not the value of the products before or after treatment. And as much as I admire the incredible skills and tools on display in these videos, I’m just a little skeptical that everything can be undone if someone ever wanted to verify the ‘true’ appearance of a high-dollar purchase (especially wherein the seller doesn’t admit that restoration work has been done). I mean, are the paints and inks used to touch up the artwork fully removable? If so, that’s great. Also, thanks for clarifying that the work doesn’t rob the pieces of all value. My comment probably sounded like I thought they did, when in fact my suspicion is only that the processes decrease the value of the posters to somewhere lower than their ‘book value’, even though they look a million times better. One thing that might be cool, and silence skeptics like me 😉 is a video showing the reversing of the processes on a poster that has no value either way.

[@anja-975]

Wow it looks amazing! Now it can look almost new for many more years 😊

[@FourthConeRestoration]

Thank you!

[@Paper_and_Light]

What a great video, and a very interesting poster! Beautiful work, as usual. I'd never heard of this one, pretty wild that they were giving them away, signed. I looked this poster's value up, according to other auctions, and it looks to be worth over $3K! A very nice collectible, and you've added to its condition 👍

[@Bertramtalespinner]

Love Struzan, but Chayikin's pretty great too.

[@FourthConeRestoration]

Agreed! They both did fantastic work!

[@Joseph-l6w]

I'm a new subscriber here for Chelsea

[@projektkobra2247]

For me, the Hildebrandt poster says everything about the 1970's....

[@collectingcoolness5971]

Remarkable work as always! Was this the hardest 'Star Wars' poster you restored considering how faded the signature was?

[@tarotuniverse50]

This was a promo poster for the comic book adaptation from Marvel Comics. Still an important piece of illustration history but not a poster for the release of the original Star Wars film.

[@laughingmadman853]

I liked Chaykins TIME2

[@adamwest3266]

GREAT WORK!! Can you tell us the cost to restore this piece?

[@RuleGarza]

Is the restore job worth more than poster?

[@jasontreece8974]

Wonder what the cost of the restoration was?

[@christopheralsup3974]

The value has completely evaporated with the linen backing and the color correction.

[@bghoody5665]

It would be helpful if you were to take a few seconds to point out what changes we should be noticing - you mentioned "foxing" a couple times but since I have no clue what that is, I had no idea what I was looking for.

[@MikeFarnhamGalaxysEdgeGroup]

google it

[@atrax7023]

As a kid i loved star wars now, i hate it.

[@clutch2827]

Chaykin bake.

[@FourthConeRestoration]

🤣

[@NexusOfTheUniverse]

I knew a Cleatus VanDam once. He witnessed an Armenian getting rear ended and said he'd be a witness for the insurance company.

😊

[@aleph4926]

What causes foxing?

[@rebchi]

Beautiful long hair, a gorgeous smile and a cute brown sweater. 😉

[@tgs1766]

@@rebchiEl Creep-o has entered the chat. 🤮

[@maxwellmcdowell3744]

It would have been better to focus on the restoration process.

[@Kaiesis]

Ruined

[@catbob1966]

Think of this video as a screenplay, and in a screenplay you’re supposed to show, not tell. This is basically an exposition dump. I want to see them actually working on the poster. Their techniques, the tools they’re using. This is merely a seven minute before/after shot.

[@FourthConeRestoration]

We have quite a few videos on our channel showing more detailed techniques if you’d like to check them out 😊