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SKot
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Info Wanted: What is the preservation project closest to the original 1977 release?
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31-May-2006, 8:22 PM
Originally posted by: The Starkiller

-The alarm on the blockade runner
By the way, I remember when I was a kid and I originally heard the klaxon on the blockade runner from The Story Of Star Wars, I thought that sound was actually the dying screams of the horrifically injured Rebel soldiers... which really gave me chills, especially after how much more graphically the novel (which I'd read previously) described that opening battle:

"A beam of intense light struck the head, sending pieces of armor, bone, and flesh flying in all directions."

"Screams of injured and dying humans--a peculiarly unrobotic sound, Threepio thought--echoed piercingly above the inorganic destruction."

I hadn't seen the movie at this point, so that's all I had to go on. Doubtful it would have made a PG rating if it had been just like the novel described it.

--SKot