Great to see Nathan Butler still coming up with the goods re the various Star Wars releases & promos (+ his quality humour)…
From the Star Wars Home Video Library #588: A New Hope 1982 VHS/Beta Advertising Flyer
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VP_xlpdBni8 - a 7+ minute video from the Nathan Butler youtube channel.
The blurb: ‘This episode of From the Star Wars Home Video Library focuses upon the 1982 advertising flyer for the initial VHS and Beta releases of ANH.’
‘The flyer text’…
Star Wars is truly a magical space fantasy adventure. Taking full advantage of the technical wizardry of modern film, writer, director George Lucas has conceived of Star Wars as an expression of his boyhood fantasy life, his love for all the great mysteries and adventures in books and movies. Star Wars is a distillation of the joys Lucas experienced in the hours he spent watching television and movies and reading comic books and comic strips.
Star Wars produced by Gary Kurtz stars Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Harry Fischer, Peter Cushing, and Alec Guinness. It’s a high energy action movie uniting the hardware of contemporary space adventure with romantic fantasies of sword and sorcery, plus a dash of wish fulfillment. Lucas’ goal has been to make an imaginative entertainment experience that would transport audiences into an unknown galaxy thousands of light years from Earth. Star Wars is a tale of heroes and villains and a romance between a young naive boy and a beautiful spirited princess.
It is an odyssey from innocence to knowledge. The ages old tale of the passage of the sword from one generation to the next. It is a world where magic is possible and love and goodness triumph over evil. Star Wars follows a young man, Luke Skywalker, through exotic worlds uniquely different from our own. Leaving the small arid planet of Tatooine, Luke plunges into an extraordinary intergalactic search for the kidnapped rebel Princess Leia from the planet Alderaan. Luke is joined in this adventure by Ben Kenobi, the last of the Jedi Knights, who were the guardians of peace and justice in the old days before the dark times came to the galaxy. Han Solo, the dashing cynical captain of the Millennium Falcon, a Corellian spaceship. Chewbacca, a Wookiee, a race of tall arthropods with large blue eyes. And the robots, C3PO and R2-D2.
This odd band of adventurers battle Grand Moff Tarkin, the evil governor of the Imperial Outland regions, and Darth Vader, the malevolent Dark Lord of the Sith, who employs his extrasensory powers to aid Governor Tarkin in the destruction of the Rebellion against the Galactic Empire.
Star Wars is a space fantasy designed to stimulate imaginations, entertain, and give viewers an infinite variety of vicarious emotional, physical, and mystical delights.
Star Wars is now available for private viewing from 20th Century Fox video. Vibrant stereo on VHS, mono-compatible, and the highest standards of technology, materials, and workmanship in assembly will ensure full enjoyment of this unrivaled space fantasy. Winner of SIX Academy Awards. Star Wars is available in Beta and VHS formats.
121 minutes. Color 1977, rated PG. Catalog number 1130-20130-30.