Mavimao, you know you just “won” the task of making a visual guide to all the known versions of THX? 😛
(once the whole scan is finished of course)
…oh by the way, second part of THX just reached the scanner. It will be scanned soon.
It actually wouldn’t be that difficult. The versions are not THAT different from each other: the 16mm, the 35mm and the Italian broadcast pretty much follow the same shot order after the beginning with the latter shortened here and there (not unlike modified for TV broadcasts of the time). While it’s true the LD modifies the shot order between THXs arrest and his placement in the weird insane asylum, and the scene between SEN and the children is slightly shortened, everything else is the same as the 16mm.
The Magnificient Ambersons, Greed… Those are films that were taken from their creators and irreversible and severely altered by the studios. From what I’ve seen, THX has just has tweaks.