The one time i know of that star wars has been released in Black and White and Silent with Subtitles is the Ken films release.

That being said I was looking forward to the 30's and 40's era serial Edition as i am a fan of the Flash Gordon serials with Buster Crabbe.

Silent film edition is a nice concept as well but i first came into this thread thinking you had done the same thing that person on youtube did with Raiders of the Lost Ark.

The prequels being Silent does that make them any better. Did you fix the awful Lucas dialogue between padme and anakin ? Just taking out Hayden whining voice is a real plus, did you take out Jar Jar? Did you fix his dumb ebonic speak like phantom editor did?

To be fair lately i have Found Mark Hamill's whining Voice in the originals Grating on my nerves, but not like getting a root canal like Hayden Christensen's voice.

It would be cool To make a Noir ish detective story out of Episodes II subplot with Obi searching for Kamino, too bad most of the footage was never shot or finished. If Lucas played up that old hard boiled detective story angle it would have been cool. I know he is a fan of The Maltese Falcon.

Is the Silent film edit cut like Metropolis by Fritz Lang? I have always thought it would be a cool edit to do of star wars 1977 to edit it in black and white and Call it "the metropolis edit". Sadly i am no fan editor to i leave that up to those with the skills,lol.

From what I have heard the rough cut of star wars by John Jympson almost come off as a flash gordon serial with the sillyness of the film Help! thrown in for good measure.

The deleted Cantina rough footage for instance on the Behind The Magic CD-Rom is very much like Flash Gordon, though Kenobi cutting the dude down in the bar fight is from either Yojimbo or Sanjiro a Kurosawa film.