I recall their being differences in the super8 version. Different audio takes, etc. Or maybe I'm full of it, who knows - most likely it seems.

bkev,

Puggo is saying that you are dissing the quality of his transfer of the 8mm film to DVD. But yeah, you are right in saying it seems that the 8mm reels were likely derived from the 70mm version.

Indeed, the 8mm films not only provide a small glimpse into the 70mm versions, they are also a great source of film grain, distortion, wobble, and color fade, all of which have been faithfully and gloriously replicated on the Puggo masterpiece!

Whoops! Yeah, I may have come off a little rude there, and I apologize.
Anyway, back on topic - I *am* interested in seeing the super 8mm of ESB, but have been unable to find it online.

bkev, you have mail.

There really ought to be a Puggo/Sluggo project some day... ;)

Maybe it's a false memory, but I swear that when I first saw ESB theatrically in 1982,
Han's "and I thought they smelled bad on the outside" line was a different take in
the version I saw (compared to all the subsequent video versions I'vd seen).
I have no idea if the theatrical showing I saw was 35mm or 70mm (was there even a 70mm re-issue of ESB?)

I haven't seen the 8mm version, however. Was that scene included?

No, not that one.

ok,

was there any differences between the 35mm version of 'empire strikes back', (maybe a mono mix? or was it

stereo only?) ...

 

and the laserdisc versions?(any of them)

 

or as mentioned in the beginning

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The Empire Strikes Back (original theatrical version)
Best source: official 2006 OUT DVD
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are they all the same?

 

i will be able to provide some information hopefully once we get ahold of

that copy, later

-1

I just got Puggo's 8mm DVD the other day, and there were a few really noticeable audio differences in the 8mm version of ESB, all lines spoken by Leia- one is during the asteroid scene, and the other 2 that I noticed were during the Cloud City escape scene.

Mielr said:

Maybe it's a false memory, but I swear that when I first saw ESB theatrically in 1982,
Han's "and I thought they smelled bad on the outside" line was a different take in
the version I saw (compared to all the subsequent video versions I'vd seen).
I have no idea if the theatrical showing I saw was 35mm or 70mm (was there even a 70mm re-issue of ESB?)

I haven't seen the 8mm version, however. Was that scene included?

There's a difference in that take between most home video releases and the ESB DVD.  The version in the 2004 DVD is from the 70mm mix.

I think that the purest HD release is, yes.  However, they lack the color corection/changes that Adywan's newest 720p editions have.

This may have been answered before:

I'm completely new to this: how and where do I find good versions of the 1997 SE's? I used to have the tapes. Is there a good source online or elsewhere? These were my first introduction to the Star Wars world, and I would like to see them again instead of the atrocious 2004 versions.

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/The-Phantom-Menace-Theatrical-Version-NTSC-DVD-ADYWAN-NOW-AVAILABLE/topic/10615/