Star Wars - CBS 1984 Recreation

Star Trek: Phase Two, the fan series, had a cool DVD of one of their episodes, done up like it was on TV in the 1960s.

Has anyone ever made a veiwable experience recreating what Star Wars's first showing on CBS in 1984 might have been like? With commercials, and promos, and those great old bumpers they use to have on movies? 

That would be neat. 

Some stuff I learned:

Beginning in September of 1982, Star Wars was shown on pay-per-view "subscription services" scattered throughout the country, despite the fact that only half a million households were wired for pay-per-view . HBO showed the film during the winter of 1983 and was disappointed at the lack of interest, due to the earlier pay-per-view showings and the film's release on video cassette. Star Wars failed to rank amongst HBO's top ten most popular films .

By the time CBS got around to airing Star Wars for the first time on network television, the film had not only been shown on pay-per-view and cable and issued on video, it had also been re-released in theaters several times. CBS scheduled Star Wars on Sunday, February 26th, from 8:00PM to 11:00PM, with a 22-minute "making of" feature to help fill the three hours.

I'm a bit confused.  There are already tapes from the 1984 airing.  Why would you need to recreate it?

RIJIR said:

I'm a bit confused.  There are already tapes from the 1984 airing.  Why would you need to recreate it?

 Oh, is there? I really hadn't thought of that. Makes sense.

FrankT said:

Now if there was a recreation of the theatrical presentation itself...

 I made my parents one of those as a gift. There first date was to see Star Wars, and they were late. 

It opened with this awful CGI of walking into a theater from some movie production logo, then started with the GOUT (to simulate the shitty theater they saw it in) when the Jawas capture Artoo. 

I also added hooting and hollering sound effects when the ship goes into hyperdrive. My dad said people went crazy. 

I started a similar project for UK cinema presentations:

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/1977-UK-theatre-intro-reconstruction/topic/14490/

You might want to add to that or start a parallel thread?

I'm actually doing something like this, although nostalgia, not authenticity is the goal. It's a present for my sister.

Working to collect late 80s commercials right now, and the old "move of the week" bumpers, local news promos.

Anyone have ideas where the commercial breaks would be?

I'm wishy washy on what source to use. I'm thinking Harmy's DeSpecialized, then just autocropping it to TV shape. 

Does anyone happen to have a good recording of the CBS version? I just need the Greedo scene for something very special. I’d really appreciate it!!!