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From: waltt@tekecs.UUCP (Walt Tucker)
Newsgroups: net.games.trivia
Subject: Re: Trivia Question
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Date: Fri, 10-Jan-86 13:00:12 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 10 13:00:12 1986
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>      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????

At the time the first Star Wars movie was released (late 1976), I was living
in a small town on the Oregon coast.  At the time, Astoria (population 10,000)
only had one movie theater.  Consequently, it was usually a number of 
months until a movie got to town.  Anyway, Star Wars finally appeared at 
the local theater in August/September of 1977 (it was right before I went 
off to college).  The version that I saw at that time had the "A New Hope" 
header attached.

The ANH heading must have been added in subsequent printings of the original 
movie, but long before it was re-released to coincide with The Empire 
Strikes Back release (1980).

                                -- Walt Tucker
                                   Tektronix, Inc.