well perhaps I am misunderstanding what the lost cut is…

But essentially what I noticed was towards the end of the second shot the sound mix no longer matches the action. after the red lasers hit is splice point 1 to tantive shot in space splice point 2 is just before the laser appears on screen. Obviously I am assuming that each shot is spliced at the beginning and end also.

we then move the shots to be a to and fro / back and fourth and this then matches the sound mix.

you will notice also the star destroyer green laser that suddenly get’s covered over with red laser so it may have been that a further shot was planned of cutting away.

But the sound mix was made for a version that was assembled like this cutting back and fourth. So there was a different version of the opening which for some reason was un-spliced but the sound was not re-mixed or the splices were not replicated to conform to the edit Ben Burrt was working on.

I am not so interested in the black and white version. I am more interested in shots that were used to cover up alternative material of which there are not that many I don’t think.