If I had to guess, that was to give video rental partners a chance to earn money off of their exorbitantly expensive rental copies before the general public could buy them at retail. Thing is, most fans never owned those posters, so whenever we see these breathtaking collages, we think of the videocassettes.
The original trilogy would be released again on video in , in similarly-styled boxes. The best way to tell those apart from these? Big thanks to StarWars. Thanks, Dan. To my knowledge, these letterboxed versions of the original trilogy were never sold separately. I was never big into the technical differences between the releases, but as far as the overall presentation went, this one was hard to top! All three movies in the original trilogy were included, of course, along with a bonus fourth video, From Star Wars to Jedi: The Making of a Saga.
A fairly legendary documentary that originally aired on television in Fans also received an artsy book on George Lucas, not to mention a special holographic box to hold everything. Perhaps you were one of the kids who tried to peel that hologram off for placement on some long-forgotten marble notebook?
This was the last release of the original trilogy before the Special Editions came out, and in fact, this was far from a needless release. Remember, Star Wars is always collecting new fans, and many of them counted this set as their first chance to see Yoda on home video.
For me, the set was one of the first signals that Star Wars was coming back in a big way. Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope. This article or section is in need of referencing per Wookieepedia's sourcing guidelines.
This article needs appropriate citations. Help us improve this article by referencing valid resource material. Remove this notice when finished. The three movies were shown in the U. The trilogy aimed to renew the movies in the minds of both the older and the younger audience, and to prepare the way for the upcoming release of Star Wars : Episode I The Phantom Menace. The renewal was done by digitally remastering the image and sound with extensive clean-up and restoration work, Lucas also made a number of changes to the films in order to "finish the film the way it was meant to be" as Lucas said in a September interview with the Associated Press so that someone who started watching the saga from the prequel trilogy wouldn't notice the aesthetic difference between the 20 years.
The most significant alterations were cosmetic, generally adding special effects which weren't originally possible, like the addition of some originally filmed but cut scenes like Han Solo 's confrontation with Jabba the Hutt , the addition of new digitally made sequences like the arrival at Mos Eisley which sometimes included the replacement of older scenes altogether like the flight to the Death Star.
Other changes, however, are considered to have affected plot or character development. If you heard that this 're-released' trilogy was not so good. It's because it used non-anamorphic video sourced from the LaserDisc releases. It's just not good as the restored Special Edition Gold or Silver box and any subsequent release, which you should avoid because it include many changes from the original theatrical version.
But, be notified even those versions has some small changes, I recommend to check the wikipedia page about List of changes in Star Wars re-releases to pick the release you want. Another great alternative is Harmy's Despecialized Editions. Basically a guy called Harmy went and reconstructed the original versions from a variety of newer sources:.
The original shots were painstakingly restored using various sources listed below and the film received an extensive shot by shot colour correction based on a fade free I. Technicolor Print. Star Wars. Empire Strikes Back. Return of the Jedi. If you want physical copies of them, there are printable covers and disc art included as well. The end product looks like this:.
LaserDisc will probably be the best quality you can find of the 'original' version of the first trilogy:. Also - reputedly - Lucas has destroyed the original masters so that the only 'definitive' studio version available is the special edition which was released at the end of the 90s.
It really depends what you don't want. If you want the movies as they appeared in the theaters, you'll have to hunt down one of the original film reels. That's an expensive proposition but ALL of the at-home releases of the films are modified in some way. The VHS releases up to the special edition are the only versions that don't contain the now infamous extra footage and Greedo shooting first.
The special editions and the DVD releases are all more-or-less the same. And the new Blu-ray versions are different still. Although exactly how they differ I am not sure. The best recreation of the original version is Harmy's "Despecialized Edition", which is based primarily on the Blu-ray versions, with most of the SE content removed:.
This restoration of an original 35mm film print is probably the best pre-Special Edition version currently available:. Have you tried "Starwars revisited" By Adywan? Search "Adywan revisited" into YouTube to see side-by-side comparisons of the original and improved footage.
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