TServo2049 said:

Oh wow, a rare example where the Technidisc/GOUT source has the dirtier splice. I think that may be the biggest glob of cement I've seen thus far.

Yeah, this is also one of the rare examples the first frame of a shot is glued as well, the JSC source is always glued on the last frame of a shot and sometimes even when a jump cut appears - Ben's lightsaber ignites, Artoo's leg extend etc, there's glue indicating the end of the cut.

I now actually don't recall which 35mm print(s) I thought matched the Technidisc source, I know I've seen it somewhere. Anyway, Moth3r's 35mm bootleg doesn't appear to have any glue marks of the kind at all, only the negative splices which all of course were covered up by the projector aperture if screened correctly, and that appears to be the case with Technicolor IB prints as well.

TServo2049 said:

Do you have a full preservation of the "ISR" SWE? It seems to have been shrugged off for years, under the assumption that it's redundant/inferior to the JSC. But now that it's clear it's not a straight port of the JSC transfer, it really needs to be compared against the JSC in full.

I own a DVD of it someone on this board sent me. Same source, same glue marks and same damage on reel 3. IIRC, it's a different telecine, but other than that I don't know.

hairy_hen, that's great info. With your great ear have you taken a listen to the theatrical mixes and compared with the visuals at the point where the Stardestroyer is chasing the Falcon before it goes into lightspeed. The revison made to the shot I posted examples of in this thread is extremely subtle but I'm just curious if you or anyone else for that matter thinks the audio match the visual cues better in one or the other. Perhaps impossible to tell.