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Pre-ANH bootleg telecine - a widescreen version

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Background
The opening crawl in the 1977 theatrical issue of Star Wars did not include the "Episode IV" subtitle - this was added when the film was re-released in 1981.
Prior to the 2006 DVD release of the original theatrical version, the only way to see the original crawl was on low-quality bootleg VHS tapes containing a telecine of a 1977 print. These could regularly be found at sci-fi and comic book conventions.

Project Details
Two different telecine-sourced bootlegs exist; the most common version has a cropped 4:3 picture and features the mono sound mix. This project is a digital preservation of the second - rarer - version, which has a letterboxed widescreen picture and a mono fold-down of the original Dolby Stereo sound mix.


Technical Specs

RUNTiME.........: 2:00:26
ViDEO...........: 672x288 23.976
ViDEO ENCODE....: XviD 1516kbps
ASPECT RATiO....: 2.35:1
AUDiO...........: Mono 48kHz
AUDiO ENCODE....: MP3 VBR 101kbps
ARCHiVES........: 100x15MB
DiSCS...........: 2 CD
 
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