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Gregatron
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What's Original '77 and What's Not?
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21-Sep-2006, 2:28 PM
Originally posted by: Obi Jeewhyen
Yeah, I'm getting pretty darn convinced that it's the real opening crawl. boris' evidence really sold that for me (thanks, boris). Something about the music synch seems off to me, but I may just have romanticized the synch over the ensuing years of the missing crawl.



In the original version of the opening shot, the big symphonic crash is in sync with our first glimpse of Tatooine (just as the planet's curvature enters ther bottom of the frame). In the post-1981 versions, the sync is off, and we hear the music crash after Tatooine is already in frame. You're probably just used to the post-1981 versions.