Bellboy

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.  :)

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?

Adywan,

Maybe I've read so much here in the past day that my eyes are now non functional...but I thought I read in one of the posts that you were going to correct the eye line mismatch for Luke when the Falcon leaves Hoth.  I checked your first post and didn't see that as part of the changes.

But I did just download the "final trailer" from the first page and it appears that it is fixed...hmph!

Could you PM me the link to ANH:R and ESB:R as well?  I don't really care about those recent three at the moment.

Adywan,

I'm new here and I just need to say that I'm so thankful I found it!

What's strange is that I dusted off my laserdisc player and spun up my LD version of the Saga to use it as the basis for a tutorial for re-teaching myself the latest version of Final Cut.

Then I read this:  http://arstechnica.com/media/news/2010/05/star-wars.ars

Which brought me to googling around and finally finding your version of ESB.  I'm pretty much a noob at usenet, but I learned quickly and I'm watching it now.  Brilliant work!  I don't think that there's anyway I could have caught up to you in my feeble attempt to edit something together as I'm still learning, but WOW is all I can say.

Now all I have to do is find your "revisited" version of SW.  If anyone here can let me know via IM on where to find it, I'd be extremely grateful.

Again, thanks so much for your efforts (as well as everyone else here) for bringing my favorite films back to me in the form that I've memorized after dozens of viewings in theatres in my youth.

Thanks,

BB