[SW:ANH] Please tell me I'm not crazy...

Ok.  I've seen the first film about 3 bazillion times and this has always bothered me after it came out on video (VHS, then laser, DVD).

There's a scene I remember when the Jawas are introduced at the Lars house that a Jawa was working on a droid (screen shot) and there was an articulating arm/part of the robot that moved (it's the part with the yellow rectangle on it).  That little bit has been cut out of every version I've seen since and I figured that if anyone knew it, it'd be you lot.  :)

What kills me is that every print I see, they dwell on that Jawa and I keep expecting the arm to move, but it doesn't and it drives me crazy.

Anyone else know about this 2 seconds or so of film that could be found so I can insert it back where it belongs?

Since the last time you saw it was before it was out on video, I am guessing you are just remembering it differently than it was. Seriously, I've seen a million examples of this. That's my take on it anyway. You may have seen the film a billion times, but you probably only saw it a few times before it was on video, and that was 30 years ago. Since, I was born after the film was already on video, I can't offer any confirmation or denial here, but then again, if you can find someone old enough to have seen the film in its original runs I doubt they would have noticed such an obscure detail in the first place and actually remember it even if they had.

I myself remember Luke's lightsaber in ROTJ being blue the first time I watched it. Childhood memory sure can be something, can't it?

Of course, in my case the tint on the TV might have been off, so Luke's lightsaber may have appeared blue ...

xhonzi said:

C3PX said:

No! Xhonzi, he asked you to tell him that he is not crazy. You're doing it wrong!

I couldn't do it! For I, like General Washington, must always tell the truth!

Oh really?!!!  Care to explain THIS?!!!!

xhonzi said:

TV's Frink said:

: Hi, I'm CP3S, and I created an aberration new nonword: *******.

IGNORE!!!

zombie84 said:

Since the last time you saw it was before it was out on video, I am guessing you are just remembering it differently than it was. Seriously, I've seen a million examples of this. That's my take on it anyway. You may have seen the film a billion times, but you probably only saw it a few times before it was on video, and that was 30 years ago. Since, I was born after the film was already on video, I can't offer any confirmation or denial here, but then again, if you can find someone old enough to have seen the film in its original runs I doubt they would have noticed such an obscure detail in the first place and actually remember it even if they had.

Umm...I saw it on opening weekend (and MANY subsequent viewings) in 1977 as a 15-yr old.  

I'm old, so sue me...but that footage is somewhere.  I need to look through my video collection, but it might have been shown in a documentary as well.  I was just hoping that you vidiots would know every frame in existence.  :)

My point was that pre-video changes that aren't officially catalogued have to go by memory, and in almost every instance where someone has sworn that they remember something being different 30 years ago as a kid, there has never been any evidence come out that such is the case.

There's a bootleg from 1977 you could check out though. It was filmed from a projection room IIRC. The detail is pretty crappy because of its age, but you might be able to confirm the existance or non-existance of this detail that way.

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/user-profile.cfm/Amras-Felagund/user/4127/

You might ask him why he's ignoring me, since I can't.

It's happened to me too.

Edge Of Darkness (the original Bob Peck one not the recent abomination).

I remember watching it with my father and reading about it in his tabloid of choice, there was this scene near the end where Craven becomes a tree which makes perfect sense in the context of that production.

I remember people debating it, I remember seeing on a video taped off the television at the time of the first repeat.

When it officially came out on video I watched it around a friends house and we both remarked about the deleted shot of Craven turning into a tree (it was like removing the burning sled from Citizen Kane) we were furious.

I then got a second hand copy of a television magazine saying it was in the script but was never filmed because Bob Peck wouldn't allow it.

So there you go...put it down to the memory playing tricks or you have slipped into a divergent universe with slight differences.

Someone should list all these 'false memories' and put them into an edit like a postcard from another world.