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Post #1287299

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SilverWook
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70mm print of the pre-SE Star Wars film on Saturday in Academy Theater in CA!
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Date created
1-Jul-2019, 3:30 AM

There were issues with Dolby being mono compatible back then. And nobody was sure Dolby was going to become the standard it is today. There were even competing sound systems you’ve probably never hears of such as Sound 360 or Megasound
Even before Dolby, there were issues with stereophonic films being played properly. Stanley Kubrick famously never did another stereo mix for any of his post 2001 films until Eyes Wide Shut in 1999.

The mono was the third and final mix and they spent the most time on it, as they thought it would be the default going forward if Dolby didn’t catch on. There were still a lot of mono theaters well into the 1980’s.

IIRC, Threepio’s line came from the mono and was added in the tweaked home video mixes in the mid '80’s.