My research process for the film essays that I make is often rather wide-ranging and can sometimes veer off into strange territory as new avenues reveal themselves and one thing leads to another. That was the story behind the making of this particular video, one that began while I was in the midst of researching an entirely different project, when I went down the rabbit hole, diving into the strange world of unauthorized edits and restorations that fans have conducted themselves and shared online. It’s a fascinating and still relatively new facet of fan culture, and a curious conundrum worth considering when thinking about the life that a movie goes on to live once it’s released into the world.