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Some of those make it look like lost scenes from the movie! Not sure I can handle a hi-res shot of Itchy though. 😉

Curious there are no shots of Harrison Ford.

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SilverWook said:

Some of those make it look like lost scenes from the movie! Not sure I can handle a hi-res shot of Itchy though. 😉

Curious there are no shots of Harrison Ford.

You had me at hi-res Itchy. Wasn’t going to look before, now I have to.

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Tobar said:

Stumbled upon a treasure trove of high res promotional stills from the Special:

https://www.gettyimages.com/license/476459462

Some of them are absolutely gorgeous. Thankfully there aren’t any of Ralph McQuarrie’s Kashyyyk exterior painting. My wife would not understand the $500 price for such a thing…

“Before the Dark Times. Before the Prequels.”

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Tobar said:

Stumbled upon a treasure trove of high res promotional stills from the Special:

Pretty awesome, eh? Shame about the watermarks, though. I’m told Getty takes images that aren’t even their own and watermarks them. That always irks me. But they really are apparently representing the CBS photo archive…though I don’t know that even CBS really owns these images anymore either. Lucasfilm bought all the rights to the Holiday Special back in the 80s, so technically they/Disney should own all of it now, I would think.

–SKot

Projects:
Return Of The Ewok and Other Short Films (with OCPmovie) [COMPLETED]
Preserving the…cringe…Star Wars Holiday Special [COMPLETED]
The Star Wars TV Commercials Project [DORMANT]
Felix the Cat 1919-1930 early film shorts preservation [ONGOING]
Lights Out! (lost TV anthology shows) [ONGOING]
Iznogoud (1995 animated series) English audio preservation [ONGOING]

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Would the drunk driving PSA have been shot around the same time, and utilized the cantina set built for the HS?
https://youtu.be/lxpz3Lp-PCk
The makeup on the bartender seems similar to one of the new characters made for the HS.

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SilverWook said:

Would the drunk driving PSA have been shot around the same time, and utilized the cantina set built for the HS?
https://youtu.be/lxpz3Lp-PCk
The makeup on the bartender seems similar to one of the new characters made for the HS.

Interesting idea, but it’s not the same set. I’m guessing they just mocked one up on the fly, ala the Cantina pick-up shots done for the movie. The commercial apparently aired in 1979, so the time period is right for them to have used anything left over from the Holiday Special, but I guess they didn’t. They captured the hazy look and seedy feel of the Cantina far better than the Holiday Special did, though!

Funny to see how they utilized crappy plastic ice cream sundae cups all over the bar, though!

–SKot

Projects:
Return Of The Ewok and Other Short Films (with OCPmovie) [COMPLETED]
Preserving the…cringe…Star Wars Holiday Special [COMPLETED]
The Star Wars TV Commercials Project [DORMANT]
Felix the Cat 1919-1930 early film shorts preservation [ONGOING]
Lights Out! (lost TV anthology shows) [ONGOING]
Iznogoud (1995 animated series) English audio preservation [ONGOING]

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Or maybe Lucasfilm still had the insert sets lying around?

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This discussion convinced me it was time to revisit the Richard Pryor sketch. It’s funny, I thought I remembered it taking place in a proper cantina.

It looks like Wolfman has been dipping into Dr. Zaius’ closet.

Anyone know the story on that tentacle monster? All the other creatures there were from Star Wars except for that one.

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I love that sketch. I bought the Richard Pryor Show on DVD just to get that.
Yeah, there is more than one patron wearing a POTA costume. Those were probably borrowed/rented from Fox’s costume dept.
A lot of the Cantina Aliens were only partial creations for the insert shots in Star Wars. Even Muftak is wearing pants here, as the original suit ended below the waist.
I’m betting the tentacle monster came from a Sid and Marty Kroftt tv show like The Lost Saucer, or Far Out Space Nuts (both 1975), which interestingly enough was shooting a alien bar scene on the Fox lot when George visited the set! It sucks that it’s never been released on DVD.

I’ve racked my brains for years trying to recall what I think was a one off tv special, that had an even larger grouping of the Cantina guys, plus what looked like the suit from Alien! That would place it around late 1979 or early 1980.

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SilverWook said:

Or maybe Lucasfilm still had the insert sets lying around?

That’s a great question I think I’ll have to ask Tom Spina, who is the only guy I know of who might actually know the answer.

–SKot

Projects:
Return Of The Ewok and Other Short Films (with OCPmovie) [COMPLETED]
Preserving the…cringe…Star Wars Holiday Special [COMPLETED]
The Star Wars TV Commercials Project [DORMANT]
Felix the Cat 1919-1930 early film shorts preservation [ONGOING]
Lights Out! (lost TV anthology shows) [ONGOING]
Iznogoud (1995 animated series) English audio preservation [ONGOING]

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SilverWook said:
I’ve racked my brains for years trying to recall what I think was a one off tv special, that had an even larger grouping of the Cantina guys, plus what looked like the suit from Alien! That would place it around late 1979 or early 1980.

Could it be Starstruck, from 1979? It was a one-off made-for-TV Star Wars rip-off that I think featured some very Cantina-like alien creatures. I have a copy of it but have not watched it yet.

–SKot

Projects:
Return Of The Ewok and Other Short Films (with OCPmovie) [COMPLETED]
Preserving the…cringe…Star Wars Holiday Special [COMPLETED]
The Star Wars TV Commercials Project [DORMANT]
Felix the Cat 1919-1930 early film shorts preservation [ONGOING]
Lights Out! (lost TV anthology shows) [ONGOING]
Iznogoud (1995 animated series) English audio preservation [ONGOING]

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Can’t say I’ve heard of that. The one I’m thinking of might have been an award show of some kind. The cantina guys were a backdrop for people presenting something or other during the whole thing. I thought it might be that Science Fiction Film awards show where Shatner infamously sang Rocket Man, but that was 1978, so too early for Giger’s Big Chap to be in attendance.

JEDIT:Okay, I have seen Starstruck on youtube, but I doubt I actually saw it back in the day. In any case it’s not the tv show we’re looking for.
And it isn’t the sci-fi comedy series Quark, either. 😃

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Is there a way to download even the watermarked full images from the site? I can only get 1024 px high and can’t understand the source code that much.

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LexX said:

Is there a way to download even the watermarked full images from the site? I can only get 1024 px high and can’t understand the source code that much.

Well, using Microsoft Edge I was able to click on the images to show the larger 1024 size, and then right-click and “Save Picture As”. They’re alll watermarked of course, but it works.

–SKot

Projects:
Return Of The Ewok and Other Short Films (with OCPmovie) [COMPLETED]
Preserving the…cringe…Star Wars Holiday Special [COMPLETED]
The Star Wars TV Commercials Project [DORMANT]
Felix the Cat 1919-1930 early film shorts preservation [ONGOING]
Lights Out! (lost TV anthology shows) [ONGOING]
Iznogoud (1995 animated series) English audio preservation [ONGOING]

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SKot said:

LexX said:

Is there a way to download even the watermarked full images from the site? I can only get 1024 px high and can’t understand the source code that much.

Well, using Microsoft Edge I was able to click on the images to show the larger 1024 size, and then right-click and “Save Picture As”. They’re alll watermarked of course, but it works.

–SKot

Yeah, I can get the 1024 size, but I thought there was a way inside the code to get the full image with the watermark.

And in the time of greatest despair, there shall come a savior, and he shall be known as the Son of the Suns.

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I’m browsing eBay, and I came across a set of four SWHS trading cards. I’ve seen them there before, but today I’m going to actually buy them.

The question is: were there only four, or should I keep looking for another or two?

Thanks,

“Before the Dark Times. Before the Prequels.”

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MattMahdi said:

I’m browsing eBay, and I came across a set of four SWHS trading cards. I’ve seen them there before, but today I’m going to actually buy them.

The question is: were there only four, or should I keep looking for another or two?

(And now that I look more closely at the photos of the cards I discover that I already own them. They’re from the first series of Star Wars Galaxy, which is in a binder somewhere at home. But of course I already purchased them. Oh well.)

“Before the Dark Times. Before the Prequels.”

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I hope the panel went well!

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Tobar said:

I hope the panel went well!

It did go well! I’m guessing there were around 400 people in the room. And I’m hoping video of it will surface at some point.

–SKot

Projects:
Return Of The Ewok and Other Short Films (with OCPmovie) [COMPLETED]
Preserving the…cringe…Star Wars Holiday Special [COMPLETED]
The Star Wars TV Commercials Project [DORMANT]
Felix the Cat 1919-1930 early film shorts preservation [ONGOING]
Lights Out! (lost TV anthology shows) [ONGOING]
Iznogoud (1995 animated series) English audio preservation [ONGOING]

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MattMahdi said:

I’m browsing eBay, and I came across a set of four SWHS trading cards. I’ve seen them there before, but today I’m going to actually buy them.

The question is: were there only four, or should I keep looking for another or two?

(And now that I look more closely at the photos of the cards I discover that I already own them. They’re from the first series of Star Wars Galaxy, which is in a binder somewhere at home. But of course I already purchased them. Oh well.)

In addition to those three (I think there’s only three, is there a fourth?) cards, there is also a set of 11 SWHS trading cards given out by the Star Wars Store with orders back in 2008, and a series of cards from the 2007 Topps 30th Anniversary set including 5 cards with pictures from the Holiday Special and 2 cards featuring simulated animation cels from the Holiday Special.

–SKot

Projects:
Return Of The Ewok and Other Short Films (with OCPmovie) [COMPLETED]
Preserving the…cringe…Star Wars Holiday Special [COMPLETED]
The Star Wars TV Commercials Project [DORMANT]
Felix the Cat 1919-1930 early film shorts preservation [ONGOING]
Lights Out! (lost TV anthology shows) [ONGOING]
Iznogoud (1995 animated series) English audio preservation [ONGOING]

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SKot said:

MattMahdi said:

MattMahdi said:

I’m browsing eBay, and I came across a set of four SWHS trading cards. I’ve seen them there before, but today I’m going to actually buy them.

The question is: were there only four, or should I keep looking for another or two?

(And now that I look more closely at the photos of the cards I discover that I already own them. They’re from the first series of Star Wars Galaxy, which is in a binder somewhere at home. But of course I already purchased them. Oh well.)

In addition to those three (I think there’s only three, is there a fourth?) cards, there is also a set of 11 SWHS trading cards given out by the Star Wars Store with orders back in 2008, and a series of cards from the 2007 Topps 30th Anniversary set including 5 cards with pictures from the Holiday Special and 2 cards featuring simulated animation cels from the Holiday Special.

–SKot

I well remember the cards from the Star Wars Store. I have a small jpg of them, but was unwilling to make a purchase just to get a random card.

It looks like what I’m getting are three of the five 2007 cards and one duplicate of the Star Wars Galaxy that I already have. Thanks for the note on what to look for!

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I’d love to get the editdroid tape and capture it on some better equipment.

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