A middle-aged nerd from the UK. I like films and write about them, sometimes for Film Stories or my blog.

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  • I don’t know about that instance in particular but that’s not to say it didn’t happen. As new sound mixes were created over the first few years, I think different sounds and lines were tinkered with.

    The only one that I definitely know of is during Han and Chewie’s escape from the Death Star.

    You can hear a Trooper shouting “close the blast doors”. Then once they’re closed, a Trooper hurriedly shouts, “open the blast doors, open the blast doors!” I can’t remember which, but one of those two lines was added at a later date, I’m sure.


  • There’s a lovely ten minute video on the BFI YouTube channel talking about this lovely Technicolour print of the film.

    I’m pretty sure the only reason everyone is calling this rare is because it doesn’t have the “episode 4” title which was added later.

    This is the same film, for people of a certain age, grew up with on TV and VHS. I don’t understand why it’s being sold as a version barely anyone has seen.

    If you want a version no one has seen, in the Lucasfilm archives is a copy of Star Wars where the travelling shots in the Falcon and land speeder were achieved with rear projection. Just like the TV shows of the 70s and 80s when characters were talking in cars.














  • My first computer was a ZX81, but I think it was a custom build between my father, a carpenter, and my uncle, an electrician who fixed arcade games.

    It was housed in a wooden case with a proper keyboard. The 16K RAM pack had been soldered on inside, so there was no case of it ever crashing due to a bad connection.

    Simple black and white graphics with no sound. I loved it to bits.















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