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Post #1569566

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JF_Sanderson
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Preservation Project: "Bilder aus Amerika" - The Making of Return of the Jedi (1983) (Released)
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15-Dec-2023, 4:59 AM

Thank you Corellian Sailor!

This is a great documentary to have, and deserves to go in the pantheon of must-see vintage docs. While some portions overlap with the other makings-of, it does have its own spin that absolutely makes it worth watching. Nice to see the then-new Skywalker Ranch, with commentary on Lucas’ success and how it was filtered through making his dreams come alive as well as America’s appetite for Star Wars. Jerome Bernstein interview is very interesting from the meta perspective as a lot of that seemed like it wasn’t thoroughly dissected until the 90s.

Not sure how much BTS is previously unseen, but I think there is a tad more here from the Stuart Freeborn shop building Jabba than seen in ‘Creatures’ or ‘Star Wars to Jedi.’

Wonderful quality in audio and video. In the English subs I noticed a few typos that a spell-check would catch (lokk instead of look) and at least one near homonym (morale instead of moral.)

Strangely the narrator says Yoda was based on ET… (did he see ET?) also massive spoilers for the Battle of Endor. 😃

edit to add— is there really an audio track available that has the English interviews without German narrator? (That was not in the file.)