Star Wars: Episode IV

Catalog Number 0693-84-01

Format Standard Play CAV

Table of Contents

Audio Commentary

3 Theatrical Trailers

Interviews

Still Gallery

LucasFilm Archives

Running Time 121 minutes

Side Chapters Frames Running Time

1 17 40,304 27min 59sec

2 18 42,273 29min 21sec

3 15 37,208 25min 50sec

4 12 25,454 17min 40sec

5 ⁺ 19 (20) 30,200 (38,335) 20min 58sec

81 175,439 121min 49sec

Supplemental Material

5 1 8,135 5min 38sec

6 21 34,174 21min 14sec ^*

22 42.306 26min 52sec ^*

^* Contains untimed still elements. Due to variations in transferring film and video to LaserDisc, exact run time may vary.
⁺ Because of the supplemental elements of side 5, the side is listed twice. The number within () represents the complete information for the side, including supplements.

Pressing Location Mitsubishi - Japan

Retail Price Available only in
Definitive Collection Box Set

Issued September 9, 1993

Dolby Surround

Front Back

Written and Directed by George Lucas

Produced by Gary Kurtz

Music by John Williams

Starring Mark Hamill
Harrison Ford
Carrie Fisher
Peter Cushing

and Alec Guinness

At long last, Star Wars in Standard Play (CAV) in the United States. Somewhat of a mixed blessing. Spouting a brand new THX certified transfer and mastered under the THX LaserDisc process, the title was available only as part of the $250 "Definitive Collection" box set. The disc contains no film soundtrack analog audio (making it unplayable in older vintage players), to make room for a spotty commentary track across both analog channels. It cannot really be called a commentary track - a more correct term would be audio featurettes which may or may not have anything to do with the current video material.

Jacket artwork is awful - no images at all - perhaps they knew they would be scuffed by being housed in an overly tight case.

Pressed in Japan by Mitsubishi, the title suffers from a series of mastering errors ranging from excessive video noise, to Closed Captions which are recorded too weakly to be picked up and contain spelling errors to replication problems which Mitsubishi was having at the time. Copies were known to experience "Laserrot", where the image would degrade and become riddled with colored speckles. At the time, Image Entertainment would replace individual discs with repressed product.

Written and Directed by	George Lucas
Produced by	Gary Kurtz
Music by	John Williams
Starring	Mark Hamill Harrison Ford Carrie Fisher Peter Cushing
and	Alec Guinness
At long last, Star Wars in Standard Play (CAV) in the United States. Somewhat of a mixed blessing. Spouting a brand new THX certified transfer and mastered under the THX LaserDisc process, the title was available only as part of the $250 "Definitive Collection" box set. The disc contains no film soundtrack analog audio (making it unplayable in older vintage players), to make room for a spotty commentary track across both analog channels. It cannot really be called a commentary track - a more correct term would be audio featurettes which may or may not have anything to do with the current video material. Jacket artwork is awful - no images at all - perhaps they knew they would be scuffed by being housed in an overly tight case. Pressed in Japan by Mitsubishi, the title suffers from a series of mastering errors ranging from excessive video noise, to Closed Captions which are recorded too weakly to be picked up and contain spelling errors to replication problems which Mitsubishi was having at the time. Copies were known to experience "Laserrot", where the image would degrade and become riddled with colored speckles. At the time, Image Entertainment would replace individual discs with repressed product.