Originally posted by: SKot
If only that elusive 70mm mix would turn up somewhere. Surely someone out there must have bootlegged a 70mm showing of the film back in the day, even just the audio?
--SKot
This is our best bet, I think. Many kids (myself included) snuck tape recorders into theaters and recorded the movies, well the audio at least. Somebody, somewhere surely did this at a 70mm presentation of Star Wars. Some friends and I did it at a 70mm showing of TESB, but that tape disappeared in the early '80s. Such tapes could be invaluable from a historical perspective, but not necessarily for preservation.
Originally posted by: SKot
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
If only that elusive 70mm mix would turn up somewhere. Surely someone out there must have bootlegged a 70mm showing of the film back in the day, even just the audio?
--SKot
This is our best bet, I think. Many kids (myself included) snuck tape recorders into theaters and recorded the movies, well the audio at least. Somebody, somewhere surely did this at a 70mm presentation of Star Wars. Some friends and I did it at a 70mm showing of TESB, but that tape disappeared in the early '80s. Such tapes could be invaluable from a historical perspective, but not necessarily for preservation.
Originally posted by: SKot
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
That's great! It is a rather ominous sound.
