Originally posted by: arcadayn
Luke taking two tries to get his grappling hook attached, etc.)?

I'm with Neil on this one. This has been rumored for years, but never confirmed with any hard evidence. The Star Wars Cut Scenes group has discussed this one at length before, and I believe the conclusion we reached was that this is bunk unless evidence surfaces proving otherwise. The Lost Footage document you referenced, though a great piece of work, is rather old now... and a few things in there have since been disproven.

As for the reversed dialogue in the mono mix as mentioned above, I'm almost 100% certain that's wrong as well. I have the original Editdroid version of Star Wars with the mono mix included, and that would have stood out like a sore thumb while watching it since the video would not match the audio. I do wonder, though, if they are reversed on The Story Of Star Wars LP? The audio for that is taken from the mono mix. I used to be able to recite that whole album from memory, but right now I can't recall for certain how those lines play on there. And since I'm at work right now, I don't have the record handy. But if it was reversed on there, that could account for some people's memory discrepancies...

I'll have to check when I get home.

--SKot