Saturday 23 February 2013

BEHIND THE SCENES: PROJECTION PEOPLE!


At Elstree, near the end of Summer 1976 London filming for STAR WARS, Mark Hamill gets into the Landspeeder cockpit alongside Anthony Daniels, readying to shoot their scenes of Luke and Threepio searching the Jundland wastes for the missing Artoo-location footage speeding by that would be projected behind them: a common industry technique often replaced these days by blue or green screen. The completed sequence was deemed unusable-the final results not believable enough for Lucas- but eventually appeared on the 2011 Blu-ray release as one of the many deleted scenes.

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