“It’s incredible folklore,” Kennedy said. “Even when I came into the company, there was endless conversation about where everything was, and what was in fact the first print? And it’s quite remarkable, what you’re going to see is in fact the first print, and I’m not even sure there’s another one quite like it. It’s that rare. There’s so much tinkering that’s gone on over the years, and things that George [Lucas] decided, ‘I’m gonna change this, I’m gonna try that.’ And then, everybody kind of lost track of what it was.”
That was mystifying to me that they don’t know what prints or negatives are in the Lucasfilm archive. How can the company that made the film be so clueless. It’s a foregone conclusion the original is never getting released on home video again or widely for theatrical exhibition.