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Post #509042

Author
grisan
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Preserving the "German" Original Trilogy (Released)
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Date created
23-Jun-2011, 7:20 PM

All german star wars  releases prior to the 1995 THX versions had the theatrical crawl without the "Episode IV" headline as far as I know.

I remember that I was very confused about the episode number when I watched ESB for the first time on VHS. That was in 1989. Also the title "Neue Hoffnung" (translation of "A new hope") was never mentioned anywhere before 1995.

I just checked the 1995 THX LD of ANH. These contain the english Lucasfilm Logo, a good quality german opening text (a long long time ago ..), a horribly recreated opening crawl in german with the episode number and the title "Neue Hoffnung" and the english end credits.

The 1993 LD contains all of this in german, probably just like it was in the theatre (I was born in 1979 so I never watched the originals in a theatre until the special editions came out).