The UK got the 70mm version without the extra shots of the rebel fleet
Interesting. I wonder what 70mm prints (if any) were made of the revised version, and where they were seen.
I did not see any film cells of the Rebel Fleet shots, but I did see cells of the close-up of Luke hanging upside down in the Wampa’s lair, the bacta tank wide shot, and Luke falling off the weather vane with the Falcon dish in frame. I thought that on the 70mm, at least some Wampa/bacta shots were missing, and the weathervane shot didn’t have the Falcon dish composited in. That means the film cells came from a 70mm element of the later version, no?
I’m just curious why they would have had a 70mm intermediate of the later version, printed onto film stock manufactured by Kodak in 1979, meaning it was printed probably within the first year of release - abs notable actually made any new release prints.