Paul Vanukoff wrote ... (regarding the titling of the first
Star Wars movie)

>Actually, according to the prologue, the first Star Wars movie has always
>been titled "Episode IV: A New Hope." So really it was never retitled. :)

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        After reading your post, I decided to do a little research.
I couldn't refer to the actual movie, since my copy is the one with
all the 1990's computer effects added to the original 1977 film.
Then I remembered that I had a book published in 1979 (The Art of
Star Wars) which has the complete text of the script for the movie.
The book was published before all the enhancements and before the
next two movies were filmed.  So the book is old enough to be
used as a reliable reference.
        The first five lines of the title page of the script says:

 Star Wars
 Episode IV
 A New Hope
 from the
 Journal of the Wills
 by George Lucas

        Wow!
        Interesting, and not what I had remembered.  This supports
the idea that Lucas had intended from the beginning to make it a
multi-part series.  He didn't just shoot off one movie and then
decide to "invent" prequall movies after seeing the profits of the
first movie.
        But I still don't know that the original release of the
movie actually printed "episode IV" in the beginning scrolly
text intro.  I'de love to find a shot of the opening title from the
"original" (1977) release of the movie.
        And I wonder what the Journal of the Wills could be?

        Err, umm, getting back on topic ... or at least to
something remotely pov-ish ...
 ...
        In The Star Wars Sketchbook, I read that the surface
details of the Death Star (except for those towers with the gun
turrets on them) were assembled from multiple copies of only
six shapes.  Sounds like a process that could be POV-able, eh?
Six meshes, tiled using macros and some rand() calls ... kewel.


Pete

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