These, and RotJ, are the episodes I’ve been waiting for. My students adore Star Wars in all it’s many forms but there’s a 30ish minute section on Tattooine at the start of A New Hope where I can always see my students’s ADHD attention spans begin to chaff under the relatively slower pace of cutting edge 1970s editing.
Haha! I actually like the slow pace of the original in terms of how Episode 4 originally worked as the “first” STAR WARS film, but if ANH becomes the 4th STAR WARS film, it has to get off to a fast start to fulfill it’s new role in the SAGA. Glad you enjoyed it!