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Intro crawl source from the german 2007 Premiere FHD broadcast of SE04?

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Hi,
did someone can recognize from which release the intro crawl of the german 2007 Premiere Full HD broadcast of the 2004 Special Edition is?

It seems to be earlier than the 2004 DVD release.
The “Es war einmal…” (A long time ago…) text seems to be similar to the 97SE from the Gkar release, but a bit different.
Then it shows the “Krieg der Sterne” logo, but for the 2004 DVD release it was changed to “Star Wars”
And it says “Neue Hoffnung” (New Hope) instead of “Eine neue Hoffnung” (A New Hope).
This was also in the 97SE Gkar.
At The Empire Strike Back is the typo “Das Imperium schlägt züruck”, and in the 97SE Gkar it was fixed “Das Imperium schlägt zurück”.
So the crawl what is used in the 2007 broadcast is pre 97SE.
A New Hope and The Empire Strike Back have sharp intro crawls.
But Return Of The Jedi has a low resolution intro crawl and it changes to high quality after the first scene swap.
It still has the “Tattuin” typo, this was fixed in the 2004 DVD release.

I made screenshots from:
-Harmy’s Despecialized (German version from Laserschwert)
-Gkar german Special Edition 1997 (Upscaled and aspect ratio corrected)
-German DVD Special Edition 2004
-German Premiere Full HD broadcast 2007 (Special Edition 2004)

EP4 - A New Hope:

Es war einmal…:

EP4 Harmy Laserschwert

EP4 Gkar 97SE

EP4 DVD SE04

EP4 2007 SE04

Logo:

EP4 Harmy Laserschwert

EP4 Gkar 97SE

EP4 DVD SE04

EP4 2007 SE04

Text:

EP4 Harmy Laserschwert

EP4 Gkar 97SE

EP4 DVD SE04

EP4 2007 SE04

EP5 - The Empire Strikes Back:

Es war einmal…:

EP5 Harmy Laserschwert

EP5 Gkar 97SE

EP5 DVD SE04

EP5 2007 SE04

Logo:

EP5 Harmy Laserschwert

EP5 Gkar 97SE

EP5 DVD SE04

EP5 2007 SE04

Text:

EP5 Harmy Laserschwert

EP5 Gkar 97SE

EP5 DVD SE04

EP5 2007 SE04

EP6 - Return Of The Jedi:

Es war einmal…:

EP6 Harmy Laserschwert

EP6 Gkar 97SE

EP6 DVD SE04

EP6 2007 SE04

Logo:

EP6 Harmy Laserschwert

EP6 Gkar 97SE

EP6 DVD SE04

EP6 2007 SE04

Text:

EP6 Harmy Laserschwert

EP6 Gkar 97SE

EP6 DVD 04SE

EP6 2007 04SE

I like the Special Edition 1997 because of nostalgia.

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 (Edited)

It seems to me that they were just sourced from the 97SE for ANH and ROTJ, and from the original release for ESB (save for the '97 “Es war einmal…” card). My guess as to why just comes down to the translated Krieg der Sterne logo before the crawl rolls up, and these were the best sources they had available for such a thing.

I’m not really that much of a movie purist. I really should’ve thought my name out a bit more.