THE 'PHANTOM' AT TWENTY: A CHARMING 'BONGO' RIDE!

It's all just too much for hapless Jar Jar Binks to cope with as he and the Jedi negotiate the dangerous sea depths of Naboo's infamous 'planet core'- an ambitious sequence and a first for a Star Wars movie with EPISODE I's early-on underwater setting- bringing challenges and puzzles that effects supervisor Dennis Muren and his team would enjoy solving through models and CGI.

Preparing the scene with stand-ins Silas Carson, Jerome Blake and John Fensom.

THE 'PHANTOM' AT TWENTY: NEW DROID ON THE BLOCK!

UK Assistant Creatures Designer John Fensom gets to discover what it was like for Anthony Daniels inside his Threepio costume when slipping inside the uncomfortable guise of Trade Federation Protocol Droid TC-14 (voiced with a polite American accent in post production by respected UK actress Lindsay Duncan). During the Leavesden Studios filming, Fensom would also provide various camera lighting stand-in duties for some of the EPISODE I cast.

TC-14 greets the Jedi 'Ambassadors' on their arrival in the Trade Federation battleship.

CLASSIC IMAGE: SILVER CHAPERONE!

Trade Federation droid TC-14 (voiced by ROME actress Lindsay Duncan, physically by John Fensom) is surprised to discover the identities of the two "Ambassadors" sent to converse with her Neimoidian masters, during the opening scenes of EPISODE I.