Baronlando said:
This confuses me. I don't understand why it was necessary for the new wipes to start at a different time if they were using the original negative. Did they just say "eh, close enough"?
Yeah....I'm a bit confused as well. There wouldn't be any wipes at all on the Original-Original negative (meaning: Camera negative).
All the FX, wipes included, would have been done post-production.
Back in the 1920s they did in-camera FX, like iris wipes. But as motion-photography became more sophisticated, that clumsy practice stopped at least in-part for the reason that if you screwed it up, you couldn't undo it.
I'm becoming more and more skeptical about everything that's been fed to us by Lucasfilm, including what source materials they ACTUALLY used for the SEs.