ceebee23

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Join date: 22-Sep-2004
Last activity: 30-Sep-2004
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Post: #67316
Topic: when did you see SW first...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/67316/action/topic#67316
Time: 25-Sep-2004 12:44 PM

I feel so old ..you were all so young in '77....I was 22 when SW opened.

The first I heard of the film was one night I wandered into a record store (this was when records were black twelve inch vinyl things) and they were playing the soundtrack album. It was before the film had opened anywhere ....april '77.

The guys behind the counter were playing it for the first time. They ...and me were blown away. No-one had written a score on the scale of SW for decades.

I bought the album and then began the wait for the film itself. (It opened in the October here).

I too prefer ESB but SW started it all.

SW really changed the way films looked and sounded ....that is why I think that the original version has to be kept somewhere where it can be shown properly!

Post: #67205
Topic: when did you see SW first...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/67205/action/topic#67205
Time: 24-Sep-2004 11:04 PM

I saw Star Wars on the opening night of general release here in Australia.

It was shown in a 70mm 6 track version in a cinema with a huge curved (ie proper 70mm screen).

What I remember most was that for some reason instead of closing the curtains after an teaser for another film in 35mm the screen just exploded in every direcuon into 70mm and the 20th century Fox intro ...it was just awe inspiring to hear that fabulous fanfare (which Fox had stopped using btw and GL brought back) as the screen exploded in every direction and then .....

total black and "in a galaxy far far away ...."

STAR WARS

and then the famous opening scene ....the audience gasped and cheered ...really cheered ....it was one of those moments in a cinema when the hair on the back of your head stands up!

Whatever GL does to SW ...I will always remember this ....I still have the program and tickets from that night!

Post: #66611
Topic: just how many versions do you own ..
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/66611/action/topic#66611
Time: 22-Sep-2004 7:08 PM

I love that picture of the union jack ....lol ......and it is only too true ....may the force be with you all!!!!

Post: #66610
Topic: just how many versions do you own ..
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/66610/action/topic#66610
Time: 22-Sep-2004 7:08 PM

Post: #66267
Topic: just how many versions do you own ..
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/66267/action/topic#66267
Time: 22-Sep-2004 1:03 AM

As it stands I have:

VHS and Beta versions of the original versions
CED and LV disk versions
SVHS versions of the '97 release (yuck!) both 4:3 and 1:2.35
new DVD widescreen

(all except the CED disks are in PAL..the CED versions are in US NTSC format.)

Post: #66254
Topic: in a Galaxy somewhere they are showing the originals ...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/66254/action/topic#66254
Time: 21-Sep-2004 11:09 PM

I just hope somewhere in the Galaxy far far far away, somehow original versions of the SW still exist. I hope the AFI or Library of Congress have decent archival copies....I vaguely remember that all three originals were specially printed on, then new, Kodak stock designed to have better archiving properties.

But I fear GL will have pulled all copies to ensure they never see the light of day!!!

...and g'day to all on this board from Australia ....the force hit here on 24/10/77 .....in 70mm and 6 track ...woooooow!!!