Comment on How Fans Saved Star Wars - Laserdisc Bootlegs (Part I)

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pwnicholson@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

By “the original” you mean the non-special edition.

But interesting to note that the true theatrical versions were never released on VHS. By the time it was released on home video, small changes had already started to be made. Pretty common for a lot of movies.

For example, the opening crawl was changed for A New Hope after 1981 to refer to it as “Episode IV”. The original theatrical version didn’t say that. There were also changes to accommodate the poor technology that would be used to play them back in homes, like brightening certain scenes.

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