The Research Continues…

I think I now know how the scene order for how the Sandcrawler shot’s were meant to work and it is only really this that got messed up because the Toshi Station scenes were excised.

We Have R2-D2 and C3-P0 part ways scene

Shot of Sandcrawler 1977 (Can see America in the Background crop and zoom has not been applied and why this looks model looks so small)

Biggs Farewell Part 1

C3P0 waving at the Sandcrawler but with the missing Matte element added back over the black triangle

Biggs Farewell part 2

Shot of Special edition Sandcrawler (With Omitted Music From the start of R2-D2 canyon music playing over it) This is an original filmed shot and done by Lorne Peterson.

It’s possible that there is another shot of the Sandcrawler we are still yet to see which would be a cut away to go with the Jawa theme music then cut back to canyon… Or it is a musical metronome frame count written to be omitted.

Jawas spotting R2-D2 driving along with music cue

R2-D2 in the Canyon disabled and capture

How Dark? Shot of sunset / night mountain ridge at some point?

21 EXT. TATOOINE - ROCK CANYON - SANDCRAWLER - SUNSET 21
The enormous sandcrawler lumbers off toward the magnificent
twin suns which are slowly setting over a distant mountain
ridge.

Perhaps it is this version… That would mean the problem is this being inserted and not the Sun’s being moved…

Then everything continues as normal but we cut to the matte painting at the Lars Homestead for “we’ve stopped… Wake up! Wake up!”

And that is the complete Solution So job done 😃 That ties up all the loose ends and sorts out why people kept chopping of the Start of the R2-D2 Canyon Music and this whole part would feature a lot less optical wipes.

A quick note on the Binary suns going behind the mountain… It would seem these are shown for a small brief shot before the plunger comes down to suck up R2-D2. This also makes Narrative sense too. The sky is purple in the Gout for one shot also. I think the intent is Night for the Sandcrawler with it’s lights on before morning at the escape pod.