Originally posted by: marcmartin

Originally posted by: Sluggo
Sweet! More conveniently lost documentation.

Well, I'm sure that magazine article talking about the changes they made to the movie
after the premiere still exists SOMEWHERE. Probably the Cinefex issue for ESB... (which
I still do have...)

Marc

That might be an actual good source, as it seems that any missing/added shots would be mostly of the FX nature. If you have the time look up that issue (i know it is a lengthy and somewhat dry read).

As for "i too remember having proof of this but i lost it long ago"--well, appreciate your effort but really its just more of the same. "I remember proof" is exactly what is being contested here, because "remember" in these types of contexts is extremely unreliable. As for other dudes on the net remembering the same thing--the Bugs Bunny experiment that Laserman posted basically shows how this is possible, as is the Biggs footage false rememberance that i also cited, plus all those who claimed that the 70mm ANH was different (a bootleg confirms it was not). The evidence just keeps stacking up against this stuff.

And while i am 100% convinced that the cut described in the original post does not exist nor ever did, i am open to the possibility that the 70mm version may have had an extra shot or two, or a couple missing shots/composites. Certainly no proof has come in favor of this, so until that happens we must take all the evidence against such a possibility as meaning that the prints were the same, but this is at least a more realistic avenue to explore, if only out of sheer curiosity. The widescreen review article might be interesting, but i have a feeling that that too might be written retrospectively from a fans perspective.