wookie@alice.UUCP (06/22/83)
For those who have not seen Star Wars fifty times in the various formats look for a few changes if you can still get the early versions. The picture was rushed into release by 20th since they felt they wouldn't make their money back if the picture wasn't brought out in the Spring. The first 70mm main release to all the theatres had many problems. The sound effects in many cases were not synced properly. For example when Luke uses his electronic binoculors and zooms in on the sand-people you here the zoom sound start and end a little after the visual effect. This was corrected in the later versions. You will also note that all of Aunt Beru's lines were redubbed in the later versions. The wording is the same but the intonations are different. Later when R2D2 is bringing up schematics pertaining to the whereabouts of the tractor beam generator for Obi-Wan in the first version the charts simply appear while in the later versions C3P0 has a line added where he explains the location to Obi-Wan. Another big difference is in the fighter scenes at the end of the movie. In the original version inter-fighter communication is made to sound like single sideband radio communication with its Donald Duck quality but later it was changed to a more normal radio sound. I liked the SSB much better. As far as the close the balst doors line goes; it appeared alone in the original version and so was not funny so they added the other line (which I assume should have been there in the first place but was forgotten) "Open the blast doors, open the blast doors!!" There were quite a few other changes which I can't recall right now so maybe if someone else can think of them we can compile them all for some strange purpose! Keith Bauer White Tiger Racing
jsgray@watmath.UUCP (Jan Gray) (07/16/83)
They added echo in the tube (where Luke & Leia swing Tarzan style) in later Star Wars prints. "Thirty two times" Jan Gray