(with the mono soundtrack for Star Wars).
Is there a reason for this? Genuinely interested, I actually still haven’t properly sat through Harmy’s edits in full or looked into them too much.
Not my video but this video does show some examples between the mono and stereo mixes.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aeXpcYcZNDw
Ben Burtt said in an interview that at the time they purposely added and changed more things in the mono mix because at the time they thought it would become the default mix. Keep in mind many major studio films as well as most if not all television programming was still being mixed in mono at the time so this wasn’t necessarily a dumb decision on their part. But low and behold they reverted to the stereo mix for the video releases and it’s only in recent years through these fan edits and preservations that fans have been able to discover this very rare and different mono mix.