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Post #413866

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SKot
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Info: The "Lost Cut" Of ANH
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11-May-2010, 4:34 PM

StarWarsFan786 said:

 

 How do you mean "Not believing you in the least"?

Basically, what you said may have made a great rumor on my school playground during recess in the pre-internet days, but nowadays it doesn't fly at all.

And why, you might ask?  Because firstly, in this age of worldwide digital awareness there's NO POSSIBLE WAY that such an airing would slip by unnoticed.  Word would leak out onto the internet and spread all over the globe within *minutes*, if not seconds, of the broadcast if even the smallest bit of an unseen shot was shown.  Even if it was only broadcast in Belgium.

Secondly, there is no such cut out there with the scenes all finished and colored in.  Those scenes don't even have finished sound or special effects.  The Biggs scenes in particular were never completed all the way, and have only ever existed in raw form.  So that immediately dismisses all claims from people who think they saw them in the movie, either back in 1977 or more recently.

The only way I could even grant the possibility of what you said is if Belgian TV somehow managed to illicitly broadcast a fan edit like Berndt Doetzer's Final Cut, which is an edit of the movie with bunches of extra material added in, some of it fabricated by the editor.  But even then, word would get out immediately, we would know about it, and the station would likely be targeted for a lawsuit by Lucasfilm's lawyers.

In conclusion, I think your story is made up.  False.  A fabrication.  Nonsense.  Bunkum.  Tummyrot.  To put it more plainly, sir: bollocks!

--SKot