Interesting . . . judging from those visual differences, it does seem likely that the Super 8 version would correspond to the 70mm. Even if it's not absolute proof, the similarity is great enough that it can probably be considered a reliable measure.

Now I'm torn . . . part of the idea of making the music edits was for the sake of personal preference, disliking unnecessary chopping up of music cues in films, and wanting to bring it closer to John Williams' conception of it, but if the Super 8 is what it seems, then the kind of changes involved in a possible 70mm version are different than what I was thinking of doing (I hadn't planned to alter any dialogue, for instance). I don't think we know for sure if those music cues were actually changed from 70 to 35 or if they had always been chopped up to start with. I keep going back and forth on whether I think it would be worthwhile to do a 'partial' 70, conforming to the 35 in length, or if any such thing should wait until someone is willing to go all the way with the visual differences.

It is interesting also that the guy who claimed to have an ESB 70mm recording specifically mentioned the lack of the line, "When we find Jabba the Hutt and that bounty hunter, we'll contact you." Going by this I'm inclined to believe him. He also said that R2 didn't taste very good, which would lend support to the notion that the SE differences can't be taken as corresponding to the 70. If only we could get in touch with him . . .

Can someone point me in the direction of the audio for this Super 8 version? I've never heard it before, but it looks like I'll need to give it a close listen.