This video used to be on YouTube, but I can't find it anymore, it's probably been taken down.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=08f_1258593020
Making of the Computer Graphics for Star Wars (Episode IV)
(1977) The computer graphics for the first Star Wars film was created by Larry Cuba in the 1970s at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) (at the time known as the Circle Graphics Habitat) at the University of Illinois at Chicago. For more information on the lab, visit our website -- http://www.evl.uic.edu