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From: terryl@tekcrl.UUCP ()
Newsgroups: net.games.trivia
Subject: Re: Trivia Question
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Date: Wed, 8-Jan-86 16:17:47 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan  8 16:17:47 1986
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> --
> > >     What was the name of the original Star Wars movie? ...
> 
> > The name wasn't added to the film until it was rereleased after The
> > Empire Strikes Back.  When it was first released they didn't know
> > whether it would be successful enough to warrant a whole series of
> > films, so he didn't include the episode name.
> > 
> > The name of the original movie was "Episode IV: A New Hope".
> 
> Is that true?  I could swear I saw the title "Episode IV: A New Hope"
> at the beginning of the original SW.  I remember being quite non-
> plused about this highly touted, state-of-the-art space opera starting
> off in the middle somewhere.  I did not see the re-release, and I
> saw SW only once (which was once too often, but that's another story).
> -- 

     I'm not sure, but you probably didn't see the first release of the
"first" Star Wars movie. The sub-title "A New Hope" was not on the first
release. However, I'm not sure, but didn't they re-release the movie just
before "The Empire Strikes Back", and that was when they added the new
sub-title????