TServo2049 said:

The presence of the original '77 flyover in the ITV leads me to believe that going back to the first 1982 transfer, the crawl, flyover and end credits were always from a different source than the rest of the film.

Agree, the "'82 IP" is most likely an opening day print with spliced in revisions, they only happened to miss the early Yavin composite when they prepared it for video. Just look at how long it took for anyone here to notice that minor difference. And we are freaks.

Perhaps been around from the very beginning, before the Tantive corridor damage happened.

TServo2049 said:

I'm still wondering if this was the same IP/IN used for the French LBX LD in 1989, or if that was just a similar IP. Andrea had told me that transfer didn't have the orange errors, but marvins' capture of the intro (posted in the French OT preservation thread) shows that they ARE there. And also remember, in the '92 transfer, it switches to the older transfer for the Greedo scene - there is also a source switch at the same point on the French LD. So both IP/INs (if they're not the same one) must have had the burned-in English subs.

Have downloaded Andrea's transfer but haven't checked it out yet. Please share your finds if you're spotting anything unusual either here or in the other thread.

TServo2049 said:

I still have a theory that the unsubbed "first-gen" IP wasn't the main GOUT source, but was only used for the Greedo scene.

Yes, that is also what I have suspected to be what that Widescreen Review info was all about. It's the only thing that makes any sense.