Knightmessenger said:
The unaltered dvd's have the moon on the left only half visible like the 2004 versions while every pre special edition ANH has the moon visible in full. Why is that? Does anybody know why the moon looks the same from 2004 and 1977 but not 1981-1995?
It appears that the 1981 edit also caused other changes to the beginning of the movie (probably up to the first cut after the star destroyer flies by, as someone already stated on this forum somewhere that that is where the new film was spliced in for the 1981 reissue in theaters). The moon is different, the starfield is different, and the blue haze on Tatooine is different. These changes were reverted in 1997 with the SE. For this reason, and for the sake of consistancy in my project, I am considering taking the crawl from the 1997 SE if it doesn't have the speed problems of the 2004 DVD. The only problem is that I do not have the 1997 SE in any format. How can I get it?