I think Katy and Neil are correct. The scrolling titles at the beginning of the 1977 film referred to Episode IV. My nine year old Jedi agrees, and checked the point on our copy of the film. He also thinks the photo is very fine.

Kind regards

Jeannie


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From: Martin Hogg [mhogg@staffmail.ed.ac.uk]
Sent: Friday, 29 July 2011 6:26 PM
To: 'Andrew Dickinson'; Katy Eloise Barnett; 'Neil Foster'; obligations@uwo.ca
Subject: RE: Star Wars in the UKSC

I think Andrew's recollection of the original title is correct: the film was
released in 1977 simply as "Star Wars" (as its entry in the Internet Movie
Database relates: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076759/ ), albeit that the
'trademark' (I do not use that in a strict IP sense) scrolling introductory
titles were headed up "Episode IV: A New Hope".

The photograph of the stormtrooper's helmet in court is splendid, Andrew,
thanks for that. Did you try it on? A pity that they didn't have a fully
uniformed stormtrooper on hand in court to model it (that would have
appealed to the 7 year old in me!).

Martin

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