skyjedi2005 wrote: They had an English version of that clip, only not on the vhs but as a commercial i can clearly remember this in 1995 when i went out and bought the faces pan and scan tapes.

Would make sense, and you can see in the first RotJ pic above, how the original english was there and they rolled out the blue german text over it.

I wonder where None got the Imax footage from

I've been searching through old forums for people mentioning old recordings/tapes. Then asking them if I can digitize them and in return give them a copy. This thread is about TREADWELL's collection. He was active in the Special Edition era trading tapes with several other collectors. The specific IMAX program:

Turner Entertainment Report Hollywood - IMAX/"Special Effects" (pkg) Produced by: Linda Mour

Is an in house production copy, with title placard. In two versions, with and without voice over. So someone in the industry was a SW fan and put together these segments and that recording made the tape trading rounds.

I wish the other clips they redid for star wars in 70mm surfaced, like the falcons escape to hyperspace.

Would be nice to see these things again. The SW clips in this IMAX news segment are the Tantive capture, some behind the scenes of the SE Stormtrooper/dewback sequence, R2 in an archive space with models and two set ups of the Falcon escape. (blue screen and light panels) One from a distance seeing all the gear/tech and a close up zoom.

Not sure why but i think they redid not just the opening stardestroyer flyover but the starfield as well for this, then did not use it again in 1997.

Yeah it's a new shot from the ground up. May have reused the models but that's about it.

The disc is on a.b.sw, anyone can take it an put it everywhere.