towne32 said:

ShaneLSD said:

excuse my ignorance but i just put the original b&w 16mm scans together and from buck rogers to the end credits its 86min my LD is 85min the so called WB cut was cut by 5mins even with differences people have mentioned its nowhere near 5 mins so it is my belief that this is not the WB cut that george lucas said is 5min shorter it simply is not 5 min shorter. can someone correct me please? i dont understand.

This is exactly what we've been discussing for the last few pages.

It seems that, if there was a shorter cut in 1971, there was also this cut produced for some reason or another. And despite the length being similar to the LD, you'll see that the scenes in the second half of the film are in a different order at times.

Yeah as i said excuse my ignorance. I did notice the scene orders but any idea what this cut is or why the cut was made? i really like it just wondering why this is different my thoughts are this is an early George Lucus cut it really feels like a creative mind is behind this cut