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Post #271526

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Jambe Davdar
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Info: The Making of The Empire Strikes Back (Michel Parbot)
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Date created
13-Feb-2007, 2:08 PM
As far as I knew Michel Parbot was a camera operator on SPFX (but I knew of him as Michael). I didn't realise that all of this B-roll was used in another doco!

He is listed as "image: Michel PARBOT" on the credits of "Temps X". "Image" presumably meaning camera?
http://www.zen67493.zen.co.uk/parbot2.jpg

I wonder if Mr. Parbot is still around. His last project entry on IMDB was in 1992. It appears that Sygma also made a behind the scenes doco for 'Moonraker', called "007 in Rio".

UPDATE: Found this mention with regards to the origin of R2's name:
"...so he tried to shorten his work by not calling for "Reel Two, Dialogue Two", but for "R2-D2". This version was narrated in the Making of The Empire Strikes Back. When the Annotated Screenplays came out however, Lucas personally corrected this story and said that all names in the movies were selected just to have phonetically pleasing and easy-to-speak names."
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UPDATE: Also found this

"Irvin Kershner, from The Making of the Empire Strikes Back documentary:

"Science fiction has certain qualities that you have to respect. All kinds of scientific jargon. We've eliminated all scientific jargon. There's almost none. Just a touch, like salt and pepper. It's not a science-fiction movie.""

As far as I can remember these are not lines from SPFX. Neo are these mentioned in your "Making of"?
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UPDATE: Is this a mention of it's airing., or is it a reference to SPFX?

"I also taped "The Making of the Empire Strikes Back" off the same PBS station around the same time. It's amazing. They are safe and sound in the archive."
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UPDATE: It hasn't been shown on the BBC in the UK. Well it isn't listed in their database anywhere.

JD