Bill DeWitt wrote:
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> "Steven Marshall" <sma### [at] alummitedu> wrote in message
> news:3A418038.D8F23380@alum.mit.edu...
> > Yes the original release certainly did start with "Episode IV: A New
> Hope". I
> > can clearly remember the audience reaction, "huh? episode 4? what the
> heck?".


Ah, then you did'nt see the original release of Star Wars. I saw it
opening night. The scrolling text did NOT start with :Episode IV: A New
Hope". That was added for the re-release the following summer.

Ken Matassa

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"Ken Matassa" <kma### [at] pacbellnet> wrote :
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> Ah, then you did'nt see the original release of Star Wars. I saw it
> opening night. The scrolling text did NOT start with :Episode IV: A New
> Hope". That was added for the re-release the following summer.

    I -never- see a movie when it first comes out. I hate crowds, lines,
jabbering and the smell of mobs.

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Ken Matassa wrote:

>Bill DeWitt wrote:
>>
>> "Steven Marshall" <sma### [at] alummitedu> wrote in message
>> news:3A418038.D8F23380@alum.mit.edu...
>> > Yes the original release certainly did start with "Episode IV: A New
>> Hope". I
>> > can clearly remember the audience reaction, "huh? episode 4? what the
>> heck?".


>Ah, then you did'nt see the original release of Star Wars. I saw it
>opening night. The scrolling text did NOT start with :Episode IV: A New
>Hope". That was added for the re-release the following summer.

>Ken Matassa

Ken: thanks for backing me up.  So often it seems I am the only
one to notice when things get edited or changed, then everyone else
thinks that things were always the way they are.  Heck, before your
posting I was wondering if I had been slipped sideways into an
alternate universe or something.


Pete

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"Pete" <Pet### [at] nymaliasnet> wrote :
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> >Ah, then you did'nt see the original release of Star Wars. I saw it
> >opening night. The scrolling text did NOT start with :Episode IV: A New
> >Hope". That was added for the re-release the following summer.
>
> >Ken Matassa
>
> Ken: thanks for backing me up.

    Actually, re-reading Ken's post in your reply, I noticed the "summer"
that I must have missed before. I don't remember the season that I saw it
in, but I saw it only a week or two after I first heard of it being shown.

    Maybe different versions got released in different places? Because I
certainly remember talking about the "IV" on the way out of the theatre.

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I saw it in a downtown Seattle WA theatre and had always thought it did say
Episode IV.  Not that my memory is good enough to recall that correctly.
Jackets were worn but it was night time and summer in the NW was never long or
too warm at night.  And I do remember waiting in a line that wrapped around the
block, ended up close to the front for the segment I got in with.  Only other
movie I went to that was like that was the first Batman one in Huntsville AL
but I'm not one to try and see first run films either.

Bob H.

"Bill DeWitt" <bde### [at] cflrrcom> wrote in message
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>     Maybe different versions got released in different places? Because I
> certainly remember talking about the "IV" on the way out of the theatre.

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