They had an English version of that clip, only not on the vhs but as a commercial i can clearly remember this in 1995 when i went out and bought the faces pan and scan tapes.

The letterbox limited edition was in less numbers i think and quite more expensive.

That video obviously shows the color correction and digital video noise reduction, someone on the other end of the video telecine obviously had to move some dials and choose the color levels and how much grain to try and masque out or clean up with the relatively infancy of dvnr tech of that era.

Even many years down the line Lowry who came up with an automatic algorithm could not do away with the so called sins of dvnr, a lot of releases needed to be checked or done frame by frame, otherwise you end up processing parts of the image you don't want to or removing more than grain.

I wonder where None got the Imax footage from, the online clip is so low quality i wish it would surface in better quality or be a bonus feature on the blu rays, but it won't be there any more than the theatrical originals.

I wish the other clips they redid for star wars in 70mm surfaced, like the falcons escape to hyperspace.

This was sort of a special edition before the special edition, if only in clips recreated for a documentary. Imagine if they went and back and redid all the effects in 70mm for imax with models and enhanced it with cgi like they did here.

But fans probably would hate that too, another version.

Not sure why but i think they redid not just the opening stardestroyer flyover but the starfield as well for this, then did not use it again in 1997.