Originally posted by: Darth Richard
Are you talking about the 70mm cut?

I believe so. I was just searching & found this:

http://www.movie-theatre.org/canada/starwars/starwars.htm

Even the newpaper ad:

http://movie-theatre.org/canada/starwars/5edmonton.jpg

It was advertised as being presented in 70mm. Maybe it wasn't & they were ripping us off by charging us 70mm prices for a 35mm presentation. I doubt it, but who knows? All I really understood about 70mm at that time was that it likely better than normal. Also in response to zombine84's last post I didn't say that it was shown only once or twice. I think that the Paramount was the only one in the entire city that was playing the film during Empire's first run. I don't know when other theatres started showing the film. It could be that they weren't up to standard or some other reason. It played many times for many months at the Paramount exclusively. Another friend saw the same cut I did at a different time than me in June of 1980 and a few others I met later on that claimed to see it during it's 1st. run here. I don't know how many copies they had, meaning if they had another camera & setup ready to go. Maybe they had a preview copy and their official reel got damaged? Or they just didn't care which one was shown? On & on. Maybe they just had this cut I described and was the only one shown to auidences here in 1980.

It is not impossible that nobody knew that the cut they were seeing at the time was indeed different than the official/common cut. I didn’t. After it stopped playing & was re-released years later, how many people would really know the difference when they saw it again? It’s likely not many, but some of us remember it. Not many at the time were connected to the world outside of Alberta or Canada or would even bother to mention some big difference in Empire several years later to somebody else someplace else. I didn't consider posting anything about this cut until very recently. I got the new copies of the DVDs for Christmas & just was wishing to see that uncut version again after watching the this unaltered version DVD. My hopes went up when I discovered the Deleted Magic film on youtube.