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msycamore
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Print variations in '77 Star Wars
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13-Oct-2012, 3:18 PM

Thanks TServo! Added.

Interesting, even if I live in the PAL-region I'm not familiar with what the sources was that they used for PAL video releases over the years. This French LD would be nice to get preserved even if the transfer/master itself was subpar, must be the only widescreen transfer of SW that hasn't been preserved around here yet.

Wasn't there someone on this forum who owned the German pre-THX LD?

TServo2049 said:

Andrea also told me that the French Pyramid LD doesn't have the Tantive burn marks. So apparently, this film source had no burn marks AND no clouds, as well as having the Greedo subtitles (since they had to switch to a different, vastly inferior print for the clean Greedo scene - go figure, the JSC already had it clean and it didn't look like a dark, purple-tinted mess).

It just gets more confusing...

Yeah, we now have basically all the combinations possible with these masters, seems like they did get it right for this master though, as the early composite with clouds was probably meant to be replaced for good when new prints were made in '77. I don't really get why they dropped the cloud element if they redid the shot? It is very likely the one with clouds were on opening day prints but perhaps it was actually done by ILM after the other one. I don't know, seems more natural to add elements to the fx-shot than to remove them, the X-wing elements disappeared for one frame on the cloudless composite but other than that it was fine, it's nothing you see in motion anyway. I find it quite amazing that both this shot and the credit roll were updated at all, such minor things...