Gatefold artwork (Click to Enlarge):
Star Wars, Laserdisc, 20th Century Fox Home Ent. France 1995
1995 release of the original films on Laserdisc in France. All the films were released in their original widescreen aspect ratio. These separate releases have french dubbing only. The crawl is in English, with French subtitles in the bottom letterbox band. Greedo's lines are also subtitled in French below the picture area.
There was also a box set collecting the three films issued at the same time, but that set was featured English audio with French subs instead. France would repeat the same release pattern with the Special Edition Laserdiscs in 1997, where the box set had original English audio, while the separate releases were dubbed in French. It's good to have options, unlike in Germany where the German dubs were all you could get. Additionally. the films were formatted in CAV to enable flawless trickplay, splitting each film to four sides.
There was a sticker noting the CAV formatting on the shrinkwrap of factory-sealed discs: ![]()
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