The reason I'm posting this has more to do with the tools used to cut this on than the footage itself. Not that the footage isn't significant - it is! 30 minutes of unedited Star Wars footage once thought lost to mankind. And who doesn't like Star Wars anyway? If you don't you're most likely from a world far, far away.

So here's the story - this was originally cut on a non-linear editing system (NLE) developed by Lucasfilm back in 1983. In those days film editing was very much a painful linear...

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