Sluggo wrote: Oh yeah, the 'Z' version! I used to have this, but I tossed it

Do you remember how you came across it? VHS/VCD? Shortly after the movie's release or trade some time later. Have been attempting to get a general sense with how these releases spread. The PT ones all seemed to have gone viral digitally so they were everywhere almost immediately.

Video_Collector wrote:

have you contacted these people to see if they still have them?

I attempt to contact these people. Should start editing the posts to make everyone aware if contact was made or not. (I don't facebook, so if people can track them down there, that's an avenue I haven't ventured)

This recent ESB/RotJ guy has written back. Most of the others I haven't found a solid contact or they are ignoring my e-mails or i'm caught in spam filters. The ESB/RotJ guy took a look at the screen captures, and it's been a long time and he's unsure if they were different sources or could be the same as yours. He was a kid and the memory wanders. The solid info though is he's from Colorado, and he guesses his parents or family friends went to a Sci-Fi convention in the early 80s and that's how he was able to watch them. Generally ask these people to remember anything they can, never know what they might remember which is relevant. and when he goes home again, he'll see if the tapes still exists.

Future historians will thank him for it.

Or gloss over it entirely when the fan produced high res scan happens. But I appreciate the sentiment. "Uncertain" the history "Is".