Battle of Hoth clean plate?

Hello everyone, first time posting here.

I’m making a video project about a Lego snowspeeder that I’ve designed, and thought it’d be cool to insert it to some shots from the movie. However, it became apparent very quickly, that I would need to completely recreate some shots, or employ tedious masking techniques to remove the original versions.

Then I thought it’d be infinitely easier if there was footage that simply didn’t have the speeders to begin with, I mean, people have done restorations of these movies, so maybe there is such footage. Like a clean plate or something?

So my question is, is there such a thing? There probably isn’t but I thought I’d ask anyway.

That guy with no name said:

there are a few shots here: https://youtu.be/9ua2v64mh9o
and here: https://youtu.be/yix_9g_Ob74

Thanks, but unfortunately these don’t have anything usable.

Wouldn’t just like aerial footage of snow plains do? Not sure what exactly you’re after.

liambrazier said:

Wouldn’t just like aerial footage of snow plains do? Not sure what exactly you’re after.

I guess. At first I wanted to simply replace the snowspeeders in the Hoth battle scene with mine, but realized it’d look weird if that was the only lego element in the scene, so then thought about recreating the whole sequence in lego in blender, but since like 80% of it is interior cockpit scenes, I gave up on the idea because I have no facial animation skills whatsoever. I can do some basic flyby animations, so I’ll just pick such shots.