Fear and Loathing in The Star Wars Holiday Special (A TM2YC FanEdit)
I was scanning through the SW holiday special (Never watched it properly before 'cause I couldn’t stand it) for my Workprint project and noticed that some of it comes off like a terifying acid-trip nightmare.I decided to make a mad rambling mix of the most disturbing shots and sounds of this notrious disaster. It’s quite short, a little funny, a little scary and a lot crazy.
Here it is space cadets, in all it’s incomprehensible glory…
(^ Click on the image to go to the video on Vimeo)
^ It’s about 15 minutes (Not including intro and credits) of only the most baffling footage from the SWHS. I suggest pouring yourself beer* (Or something stronger or stranger), turning off the lights and taking a voyage into Director Steve Binder’s “Vision” of family entertainment. A vision so trippy and demented that even George Lucas couldn’t top it when he came to make his Prequels (God knows he tried!).
I have not…
- Added any sound or visuals (Outside of the opening titles and credit music)
- Added any slow-mo
- Adjust colours
- Re-dubbed any audio
- Or applied any visual FX
… i.e. if it looks crazy here, it looked crazy when it was first broadcast on an unsuspecting public in november 1978.
Obviously the visual quality is limited by the VHS source material of this never-commercialy-released car-crash TV show.
HOPE YOU ALL HAVE FUN WATCHING IT!
(* I laughed my ass off watching this back with a mug of Ale last night 😄).