generalfrevious said:

There's also another problem: SW is the only movie franchise I know of that has an extensive revisionist history that is changed from day to day. We are talking about Soviet Russian levels of revisionism. Do any other movies have censored/revised histories on how they were made? I doubt it. SW is a movie, not a communist dictatorship.

The studios used to outright fabricate how certain FX were achieved in the old days. (If they revealed how it was done at all.) Ray Harryhausen recalled an article on King Kong from his youth that said it was a man in a gorilla suit in front of red process screen. Yeah right!

Ironically, Dino DeLaurentis duped the entire motion picture academy into believing every shot in the '76 remake was Carlo Rambaldi's life size mechanical Kong, (which barely worked at all) screwing over Rick Baker's contribution.

In 1977, someone at 20th Century Fox put out publicity crap that Threepio was totally mechanical, much to Anthony Daniels' dismay. (In fact, the studio was a tad paranoid about acknowledging any of the masked performers, let alone putting out any "unmasked" photos.) Boy, did I get into schoolyard debates over that one!