I’m interested in identifying different releases by the intermediate film print master used. This kind of taxonomical information is useful and interesting to preservationists like ourselves.

For now, I’d like to focus on ANH. We can focus on TESB and ROTJ later.

We need to identify a set of easy-to-spot characteristics that will allow us to quickly categorize different releases.

All I can think of at the moment are the “Tantive Orange Errors”: http://fd.noneinc.com/Glitch/starwars-tantiveorangeerrors/starwars-tantiveorangeerrors.html

Using this characteristic as a guide, we can assume that all home video releases of ANH come from one of two IPs: the one without them (e.g., the JSC LD) and the one with them (e.g., the Technidisc LD and all 35mm theatrical release-prints).

Interestingly, the IP without the “Tantive Orange Errors” is also the one without the burned-in subtitles for the Greedo scene.

Please weigh-in, guys. I’d like to come up with a Star Wars Family Tree.