zombie84 said:
None of these exist you guys. There has never been any extended or alternate ANH edits--to do so would require going back to the negative and re-striking a new edited IP. None of these things are in the script, in stills, in any sort of official source of movie deletions or the lengthy deleted scenes lists that even the official site has exhaustedly chronicled, and all people have is vague memories--just like years ago people by the hundred swore they saw the biggs footage on TV. But they never did. They just invented a memory. It happens when you are dealing with childhood memories from decades ago that involve hundreds of other multimedia sources that influence them like the many novels and storybooks. The version of Star Wars released on the 2006 GOUT DVD is the only version of Star Wars that ever existed until the SE, with the exception of the 1981 crawl.

Isn't it on record that the 70mm premieres were rushed out though and slightly rough and that they still were working on a few final sound/visual edits for the general release? I thought I once read that there was a tiny of doubt as to whether each the handful of theaters were the premiere was shown even got 100% the same thing.

(for the record, i have no memory of having seen the biggs/tatooine scene at the paramus showing, i do recall reading about it and seeing it on trading cards or in some books or something way back when though)