Video_Collector wrote:

There was another Ep1 bootleg at the same time as the Z version was out. It was called the AB version.

TPM:AB added to the first post. Do you remember any context how you found about about this version? search engines are blanking even when looking through that specific time frame. 'AB' doesn't help narrow down the query.

Aluminum Falcon wrote:

The AB looks obviously inferior to the Z, but still it would be nice if it were preserved.

Anyway, after preserving some TPM boots, are we going to start looking more intensely for AOTC bootlegs to preserve?

All these Theater Performances are inferior in more ways then one. But the 'AB' seems to have more left frame then the 'Z' so it's not completely inferior in context. As I poke through these it's also interesting to see where projectionist mark up these pictures. Only with multiple versions can you trend actions they took. For instance certain reel changes might have been hard to spot so multiple projectionists might have amended the hard to see ones. Even some of TPM have marked up frames. Do projectionists typically preview so they know when the reel changes are coming up or is the 20 minute rule, fairly typical? Seems odd to take a pencil to a print which is days old.

Yes it's nice to be able to review these recordings, but figuring out how they differ and what's significant about them is what's important.

There's no start/stop looking. It's just whatever comes into our focus. Periodically, I just pop in a movie title into a search engine with some other terms hoping to find someone talking about their memories. When time can be found plan on starting to poke more into old/relic/abandoned SW forums. Anyone can do this.

This recent Ex-Colorado person, also was a cassette recorder type, and at one point had a tape of his Star Wars experience. Complete with his childhood exclamation: "That's not fair!" when the Star Destroyer rolled in over head.