The Lost Cut

"The Lost Cut" is the name associated to an early prototype of the original Star Wars edited by a man named John Jympson from Britain who also cut together such famed films as Zulu. What he did was take whatever footage was completed at the time (1976) and assemble a rough cut of the film, putting the shots in their proper sequence, to give the filmmakers an idea of the narrative flow of the film. An alternate explanation put out was that George Lucas had originally written the scenes and shot them at the suggestion of his industry friends who thought that audiences wouldn't understand the story strictly being told from a droid's point of view and so we have an early introduction to Luke Skywalker. Upon realizing that the story was really about the droids adventures and it was them leading things to Luke and Obi-Wan, etc.; Lucas took the footage out. There are various scenes: Luke out on the desert flats fixing amoisture vaporator and witnessing the space battle above, some deleted scenes with Luke and Biggs, and an alternate cut of the cantina scenes including more aliens and Han with a girl.
Of these, my project is the first scene: While Luke is working on a machine at the Lars homestead, he uses a set of binoculars to look up into the sky. Seeing two starships exchanging laser fire in space, he decides to go to tell his friends at Tosche Station. When he runs to his landspeeder, one of the moisture parolling droids malfunctions. Luke just rolls his eyes and continues to make his way to Anchorhead. The only footage of this scene is in very grainy black & white and has no sound.
This blog will detail my attempt to reconstruct the footage and add sound - finish a scene that numerous Star Wars fans have been wanting to see for years!