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TheCassidy
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Preserving The "Other" Lucasfilm Projects...
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1-Jun-2005, 7:29 AM
The changes made to the 'Raiders' DVD don't fundamentally alter the film the way the Star Wars SE's or DVD's did, but there are a few subtle things including the aforementioned cobra reflection. Additionally, the guide track that the boulder rolled down in the opening sequence was digitally removed. Most people would probably scoff at me for saying this, but I'd like to have an unaltered original - warts and all. While the content is the same, Lowry Digital still tinkered with it.

The sound remix is obvious though - I consider the re-mix better, but I'd still like the original preserved.

American Grafitti was alterered more noticeably. Check out the sunset during the opening sequence at Mel's Diner. My older VHS copy has the original sunset, but my DVD has the ILM CGI sky, which now looks like a sunset on Tatooine.

This begs the question though - is there a widescreen version of the original THX-1138 anywhere? I have it on VHS but it's pan and scan.