towne32 said:

Molly said:

So I take it the majority of the differences are rearrangement of scenes, and not added or deleted footage?

I'm not familiar with THX, I'm mainly curious and from a preservation standpoint.

Between 1971 and 1978 yes, it would seem so. And those changes all (if I recall) occur in the second half of the film, after the arrest. The exception (footage not present at all in the 1978 cut) being about 30 seconds of the SEN + kids scene, which was almost certainly removed due to bad child acting and really bad voice dubs.

I'll have my "Unspecialized" reconstruction on spleen sometime tonight if anyone is interested. It would be up, but my computer crashed mysteriously during the encode.

When has bad child acting ever made George cut a scene? ;)

I believe the scene humanizes SEN a bit more than George may have wanted. Without it, SEN is more of a selfish person who wants THX for his new roommate, (his old roomate's death might even be a tad suspicious) and has the computer skills to get what he wants.

Either version suggests this society pretty much raises kids via machines, and adults don't interact with them much.