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Post #96325

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Trooperman
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Idea -- Original Theatrical Prequels
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Date created
12-Mar-2005, 11:02 AM
I would like to give the theatrical version of Phantom Menace a shot. I own the widescreen DVD and a pan-scan theatrical VHS for reference. When I began looking for changes, I found that a couple scenes in the theatrical release have been deleted in the DVD release. There is one little clip in the Podrace where Watto cheers for Sebulba before the race that was deleted. However, that's no problem because I found it in the extended cut of the opening on the Special Features disc. There is still one shot, though, that I'm missing in widescreen. It is the shot directly after Qui-Gon's line: "The situation has become more complicated." Then, we have a transition to an establishing shot of Palpatine's building on Coruscant, immediately followed by Palpatine's speech about greedy senators to Amidala. The establishing shot is missing from the DVD.

Does anyone know if a small torrent or straight download exists (or could be created) containing the establishing shot and also the shot before and the shot after, so as to have the transition? It could be ripped from a theatrical widescreen VHS (OK) or the Japanese LD (better). Then I could have the film in its theatrical state for archive purposes.