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- Info Wanted: Which trailers accompanied the actual Star Wars movies?
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Interesting that we don’t have more documentation on this sort of thing, especially concerning the OT.
For what it’s worth, here’s the contents of the “UK cinema intro reconstruction” projects:
UK cinema intro reconstruction: Star Wars (1977)
This project attempts to recreate the experience of viewing Star Wars at a UK cinema in 1977.
While it’s very hard to say exactly which ads and trailers were screened before the main movie, 39 years ago, the material presented here is approximately the right vintage, and I’ve assembled the programme based on my own memories of analogue cinema. So it’s probably not exactly the way it was, but should be quite close in spirit (and I’m always pleased to hear specific memories that might make this more accurate).
00:00 - Entrance music
04:24 - Ads
11:15 - Previews: Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo, Airport 77, Smokey and the Bandit, Damnation Alley, Sorcerer, The Spy Who Loved Me
26:43 - Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2th Century
33:58 - Changeover music
34:51 - Trailer: Close Encounters of the Third Kind
40:50 - Dolby Stereo snipe and BBFC certificate
UK cinema intro reconstruction: Star Wars (Odeon 1978 edition)
As usual, I’ve compiled a package of ads and trailers you would have seen in those months, along with a vintage supporting feature. The wider release was accompanied by Fast Company, a short documentary on the UK motorcycle scene, which sadly hasn’t survived in good quality (you can find it on YT if you’re curious). Some regions showed the Movietone short Cross Country Go instead, which is included here in all its 25-minute glory.
00:00 Welcome
01:04 Opening logos
01:19 Supporting feature: Cross-Country Go
27:50 Trailers: Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo, Revenge of the Pink Panther, Damnation Alley, The Deep
37:48 RSA ads
42:41 Sales ads
44:15 Intermission
45:18 Trailer: Close Encounters of the Third Kind
51:17 Dolby Stereo, BBFC logos
UK cinema intro reconstruction: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
The reel also includes Black Angel, which played as a supporting feature during that initial release.
00:00 - Entrance music
03:29 - Ads
11:29 - Trailers: Airplane, Hawk the Slayer, Saturn 3, Superman II
22:08 - Black Angel
46:56 - Intermission - Raise the Titanic trailer
52:26 - Dolby Stereo snipe and BBFC certificate
UK cinema intro reconstruction: Return of the Jedi (1983)
The reel also includes Dilemma, which played as a supporting feature during that initial release.
00:00 - Entrance music
02:49 - Ads
08:50 - Trailers: The Right Stuff, WarGames, Superman III, Krull
21:15 - Dilemma
32:52 - Intermission - Octopussy and The Star Chamber trailers
38:23 - Dolby Stereo snipe and BBFC certificate
UK cinema intro reconstruction: Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
00:00 - intro music
04:15 - ads
11:39 - trailers: Austin Powers - The Spy Who Shagged Me, The Beach, Anna and the King, Wild Wild West
19:56 - changeover music
22:11 - Titan A.E. trailer
24:38 - Odeon and BBFC logos
On a related note, I found this thread started Halloween 2009: https://forum.reelsociety.com/viewtopic.php?t=87
307 pages thus far, so I’m sure it’s chock full of nostalgia. Even though 2009 still feels like yesterday to me >_<
There’s some more info on trailers and shorts at the other Star Wars forum, but I don’t know if that needs to be duplicated here or not.