STAR WARS RECREATED TV SPOTS (Released)

Hey guys.  Thought you might be interested in this project I just finished.  Recreations of classic Star Wars tv trailers.  I just finished matching 30 year old audio I recorded when I was a kid (plus some excellent sounding stuff I found in this forum), with video from a pan and scan ld I transferred.  I wasn’t looking for prestine dvd quality, but something closer to what would have been recorded from an over the air broadcast…the LD fit the bill.  Some are in the same style as those included on the 2004 dvd set.  Buy then there are a set that aired on Saturday mornings…each spot profiles a character (Luke, Ben, Leia).  Very cool stuff.  Obviously most of the audio is crap, because that’s what you got when you hold a cassette recorder in front of a tv speaker…but still a miracle the audio survived this long.

Check’em out and I hope you enjoy them!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXn0G3ZXtbM

That was really cool, thanks for making them.

Those were fun to watch, thanks!

Hi, I originally posted the audio from the 1978 TV spots. 

For the first ad of the opening flyover, my recollection is that after the first two shots, the movie's receding title card was shown with the music (not superimposed over footage as you had).

One funny thing I remember was a TV ad where we hear Gran Moff Tarkin say "Terminate her, immediately." But they used it over footage of VADER, making it appear as if he were saying it.

Hey there.  Thanks so much for the insight, as well as posting the audio in the first place.  i'm guess you had a pretty decent stereo setup in the late 70s because the quality of these are excellent considering that was over 30 years ago:)  It's amazing how we can remember actual takes from spots we saw once or twice on tv decades ago.

Do you think the title was from spot #1 was the actual STAR WARS logo receding, taken directly from the film...with a PG slate on the bottom? 

I believe the "terminate her immediately" was form a spot included in the 2004 dvds. Lots of he sound was not from the movie, which makes "guessing" very difficult.  Thanks again for your help, and if you uncover any other lost gems, I'd love to check them out.

Wade

I've seen the work and I love it! There should be more people like that who love to reconstruct trailer and TV spots.

wwdarth said:

Do you think the title was from spot #1 was the actual STAR WARS logo receding, taken directly from the film...with a PG slate on the bottom? 

Yes, I believe so.

The Star Wars Trilogy - All TV Spots

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUDNwDZLilY

This was posted a few months ago, seems to be a great collection of TV spots.  Do any of them look new to you? 

(prequel stuff as well in this user's uploads, fantastic resource.)

After the opening spot, the 2nd 3rd and 4th are some of the TV spots from the 1978 reissue, audio of which I'd posted previously.  

Hey guys.  The youtube video is just a rip from the 2004 dvd set.  Thanks again morgands1 for the original audio.  I'm going to post an UPDATED version of these very soon, using input from people who saw them originally, plus recently found original versions from youtube.  I'll post when they're up. 

Hey guys.  Below is an update of my original commercials recreations project...which contains all of the dvd release commercials, a couple from Editdroid, and also more recreations.  Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfqVGgwVa5w