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Post #1461792

Author
oojason
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Preservation Project: "Bilder aus Amerika" - The Making of Return of the Jedi (1983) (Released)
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Date created
11-Dec-2021, 5:40 PM

I really enjoyed watching this - full of warm and good memories from the Original Trilogy for days long gone.

Corellian Sailor and his friend did a bang-up quality job on the preservation; both the image and sound quality are very good - the added subtitles are well done, and also an easy ‘read’ too.

Some interesting BTS stuff for all of the Original Trilogy, especially noteworthy is Obi Wan in Empire Strikes Back with a voice sounding much like Patrick Macnee’s Count Iblis from 1970’s Battlestar Galactica, and also Ewoks sounding like sheep in the background talking to Chewbacca during the Leia and Han kiss (maybe an early testing for sound effects - or used to mask actual dialogue and sound from the film itself?).

It is sometimes overlooked that for audiences in the real-life era of the nuclear war that the OT was a much welcome escape at the cinema. Also covered is the phycology of Star Wars with Jerome Bernstein - as well as the appeal to kids, an introduction to the Ewoks, and what the Ewoks in ROTJ says about the film’s message too.

Merchandise is also featured too - including toys actually being made in the US! Then onto some coverage on the Skywalker Ranch. Later on some Hardware Wars - giving an example of how it fired young people’s’ imagination and filmmaking efforts themselves…

Also loved some of the Empire Strikes Back footage of ‘snow lizards’ (a beautiful description given the animation shown to us in this) - and how Snowspeeders were shot on a wire for some of the scenes. It also features some great shots of the model-work across the OT - both large and small.
 

A really enjoyable watch. Much kudos and many to thanks to Corellian Sailor - a quality restoration and remaster! 👍