Yes, Mr. Paddon is a bit of a butt cheek. He wants a cut of 1776 that was never shown theatrically and that was never intended to be shown theatrically, including shots that were taken from alternate takes which were never in the film or intended to be in the film and which has an overture "added" by the laserdisc producer from various score outtakes. This somehow is the definitive version of the film because the producer says so, and keeps saying that Mr. Hunt approved everything and that he has the correspondence to prove it. Of course, he has never offered ONE WORD of the correspondence as proof, we're just supposed to take him at his word. Now, back then, Mr. Hunt might have been so happy to have certain things restored to his film that he MEANT to have in it, that he just allowed everything else to stay, even the bits that he didn't like. Mr. joecaps might have been so annoying about it that he merely said okay rather than listening to the ranting of some obsessive and silly fanboy. I've been in that position, too, you just can't listen to anymoe and you say "fine" even though you shouldn't.