Originally posted by: The Starkiller
Something that may be of interest in all of this is that the same starfield was used for the crawl on all three films. Of course, this excludes the original pre-Episode IV starfield, which is clearly different.
I'm with the general consensus that the starfield was changed when 'Episode IV' was added. I believe that when they created the new crawl, they used the starfield they had just done for The Empire Strikes Back
Something that may be of interest in all of this is that the same starfield was used for the crawl on all three films. Of course, this excludes the original pre-Episode IV starfield, which is clearly different.
I'm with the general consensus that the starfield was changed when 'Episode IV' was added. I believe that when they created the new crawl, they used the starfield they had just done for The Empire Strikes Back
Yes that seems very likely, although the starfield in the star-destroyer flyover scene was also changed for the EP IV, so this will also need to be 'recreated'? for the 2006 theatrical SW version.
Actually speaking of the flyover scene, the star-destroyer in the 1980 ANH seem to be positioned slightly lower (or closer to the planet below) than in the 1997 ANH and maybe in 1977 SW.
And in the 1997 ANH the lasershots are slightly misaligned with the spaceships or maybe it's the ships that is out of position, the laserglow is also almost missing or very faded. And damn that star-destroyer looks so clean comparing with the dirty pre SE footage, so how much of this scene was actually redone for the 1997 ANH SE and 1980 ANH??