Last post on this research… Hopefully it has been valuable and I do hope some others chime in.
Beast Rabaan in the bath tub. Saw an interview with Paul smith regarding punching the light and black liquid running over his face being in danger of electricution so cancelled. I believe the scene was shot though as a lot of still images exist of it but it was shot without punching the light above him. It is in the comic.
The comic and script have more dialogue between Duncun and Leto when he delivers fremen message regarding a degredation of the great houses of the landsraad.
The comic and script hace further dialogue and scenes at the ending even more than is provided in the deleted scenes. They remain unreleased
Missing shot of the Bulls head in Arakeen palace.
The Feyed knife fight with Paul at the end is also cut and shortened. After he taunts Paul’ about his little pet Chani Feyed manages to cut Pauls wrist this then slows paul down as blade is poisioned but paul being a super being neutralizes the poision quickly. The music is far longer than the fight and the music cues do not match up but can be heard for the various blows and hits but will not work properly or fully unless the footage is restored and dialogue. Re-instated.
In the TV broadcast version when Atreides land on Arakis there are 2 establishing shots. One is for dawn destroyed shield wall I do not know what the other one is…They do not go in that part of the film though they are misplaced.
When the Emperor orders the Genocide on Arrakis it would seem to me that this should cue a flurry of Sandakar Activity and ships and Heighliners and so on otherwise it falls flat. It would have been an ideal moment to show Salusa Secondus and the Prision planet amongst the othets named which were mentioned IX, Richese ultimately showing a convergence to Arrakis but with the main focus on Salusa Secondus.
When we see the moon crack apart there is another version of this in a TV spot which looks better effect but has a rip in the footage. TV spot is labelled TV spot 2. This was also for the waking dream.
And finally The Movie poster image with the two moons over the deseart was meant for Pauls waking dream after thopter crash. The moons were animated as in the german trailer footage. However this plate is missing the desert and the sky element and also it was meant to be raining also. This was to acompany. “Never one drop of rain on Arrakis” monologue and was refetence to the rain ending and teraforming plot / threat of destruction of the spice. When Paul get’s his robes at the end the speech was cut and explains there will always be desert for the spice but it is all there and definitely worth looking at.
When Paul has no further visions of his future and exlaims “the empetor is coming” Surely we were meant to see the emperors ship here in space? Would seem obvious.
So that’s it all I think. I hope it can remain a good source of information on the film for any preservation efforts and or fan edits too. I will update the first post accordingly.