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#298543
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Info Wanted: Has anyone preserved these VH1 OT interview clips?
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These are 5 outtakes from the “When Star Wars Ruled The World” VH1 special. I’m wondering if anyone has been able to download/preserve them before they disappear from the VH1 site?

I think they’re important clips, especially the Mark Hamill one where he tells the “dianoga poo poo” anecdote. Until seeing this clip, I had never heard Hamill tell the story himself, I had only read it in a print interview, and heard Carrie Fisher re-tell the story on the ANH DVD commentary track.

I’ve tried without success to download them myself. If anyone else could please try, that would be fantastic:
LINK TO VH1 CLIPS

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#298466
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No more Star Wars from Master Replicas
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/298466/action/topic#298466
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Originally posted by: Nanner Split
If you want some cool lightsaber replicas, check out www.parksabers.com
Those look nice. I had no idea there were so many different saber handles (mostly from the PT, I guess). I thought I'd be able to identify all of the OT sabers- but there are a few that look sort of similar (and of course the names don't give you any hints).

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#298137
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Star Wars film versions and best DVD sources
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/298137/action/topic#298137
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Originally posted by: SKot
Popping in to update the first entry to mention the best source of the original 1977 Star Wars as being the *widescreen* telecine bootleg.
--SKot

Interesting.

A friend of mine had a vhs (or beta) copy of Star Wars that he showed me around Christmastime in 1977.
(he was about 8 years old at the time- I was 7). I assume his father got the tape for him, and I often wonder now where he got it & what the source was. It was really my first exposure to the film.
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#298120
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Just noticed in ANH SE
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/298120/action/topic#298120
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Yeah, I don't understand why they cut that line out about him knowing Luke's father. It wouldn't have affected anything plot-wise to have left the line in. I mean, it's already established that Luke's father was a great pilot when Obi-Wan tells him this earlier in the film!

For some reason, I don't remember the line being cut and replaced by the CGI person when the SE played in theaters. Was it cut out afterwards for the home video release?
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#298086
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2007 DVD repackage
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/298086/action/topic#298086
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Originally posted by: eros
Hmmm, sounds like you know less than me.

Gee, I'm sorry, I thought I was being nice and trying to explain something to you but instead it turns out you're a jerk!

You may think you know more than me, but evidently you still haven't managed to grasp the very difficult concept that sarcasm doesn't translate well into text.....
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#297998
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2007 DVD repackage
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/297998/action/topic#297998
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Originally posted by: eros
I didn't know HD formats were anamorphic!

If a widescreen DVD or HD-dvd or blu-ray disc fills your widescreen TV correctly.......then it's anamorphic.

Non-anamorphic widescreen is a 4:3 (square-ish) letterboxed image designed to be shown on a square-ish 4:3 TV.

HD widescreen images aren't designed for old square TVs- they're designed for newer widescreen TVs, so they're anamorphic.

I'm sure someone could explain it better but I'm tired.
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#297682
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"Making of Star Wars" (1977) taped from ABC??
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/297682/action/topic#297682
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Originally posted by: skyjedi2005
now all they have to do is make a documentary called "the wrecking of star wars from 1994 -to 2006"

it would encompass the horrible writing of the prequels, the horrible bastardization and butchering of the oot called the special editions, the three crappy movies called prequels and top it off with a 1993 state of the art laserdisc non anamorphic transfer of the oot in 2006.


That's actually a GREAT idea for a documentary. There are lots of capable, talented people here....(and I'm available for an on-camera interview)
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#297252
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George Lucas to host showing of Star Wars "1977" for AFI's 40th anniversary.
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/297252/action/topic#297252
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Originally posted by: zombie84
I guess this makes it seem like we can do something but we really can't.

I don't think for a minute that Lucas will give them a '77 print.

What may happen if they get enough complaints, is that they list the film as the "1997 special edition" rather than falsely listing it as the "1977" version.

Lucas wants to pretend the 1977 version didn't exist. I want people who go to that screening KNOW that what they're about to see is NOT the original version of the film, the 1977 version DID exist and it is being suppressed!

How long does it take to send an email? Thirty seconds?

Something simple will suffice:

Dear AFI,

Regarding your 40th anniversary screening of "Star Wars (1977)", is it actually the 1977 version that will be shown or the 1997 Special Edition?

If you will be screening the 1997 Special Edition, the your advertisements stating that the 1977 version of Star Wars will be shown are misleading.



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#297225
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George Lucas to host showing of Star Wars "1977" for AFI's 40th anniversary.
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/297225/action/topic#297225
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George Lucas will be presenting Star Wars as one of eleven films shown in honor of the American Film Institute’s 40th anniversary.

LINK

It’s listed as “Star Wars (1977)” , but of course we all know, it WON’T be the 1977 version.

I’ve already sent an email to the AFI to ask whether or not this will be the 1977 version, and if it’s not, then it should be stated that it’s the 1997 version.

If you’d like to send an email as well, here’s the address:

onscreen@afi.com

This revisionist crap has got to stop!!!

EDIT: Thanks to all the emails we sent, the AFI listing now reads “special edition” rather than “1977.”

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#297169
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Potter eclipses Star Wars and Bond
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/297169/action/topic#297169
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Originally posted by: skyjedi2005
the potter films are better made than the prequels but they don't come close to the immortal trilogy circa 1977-1983.

No argument there! The Potter films had a good story for the films to follow. The Prequels barely had coherent plots.

I like the Potter books, and I think the films are very well done and are very true to the books, but I will never love any franchise as much as the OOT and I HATE the way the Prequels have sullied them.