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Holiday Special Deleted Scene - Wasting Electricity

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Courtesy of Skot Kirkwood and starwarsholidayspecial.com.


http://www.ffrevolution.com/1ocpvideos/HS-CUT_1400kbps.wmv


This completely insane and bizarre clip is actually a deleted moment from the Star Wars Holiday Special!

A highlight of this lowlight of television is the cartoon, animated by Canadian studio Nelvana (who shortly after did Droids and the film Rock & Rule, and later did shows like Eek the Cat etc.) ....

Skot Kirkwood is the ultimate authority on all things related to the Star Wars Holiday Special, which is an odd thing to be. Recently he dug up the uncut version of this cartoon. It had been rumored to exist for years but never turned up until now.

This video clip contains the opening/closing countdown for the cartoon, which wasn't shown full-frame in the show (was shown on a little screen) ...

But it also contains the BIZARRE ALIEN COMMERCIAL.

This is played forwards, and backwards. It makes more sense backwards, if it makes any sense at all. Which it does not.

See, in the real Holiday Special, at a "cliffhanger" moment where Boba Fett is shown to be a bad guy reporting to Darth Vader, a live action imperial officer startles Chewbacca's son "Lumpy" and the show cuts to a commercial. A real commercial.

Well, in the uncut cartoon, at this point Nelvana cut to a commercial too. But it's a commercial of their own fiendish design.

How to describe?

It's very very limited animation which repeats, of a man/thing/superhero with four legs pointing as gibberish slogans flash. (A woman is behind him.) A All audio is backwards. It's bizarre and creepy.

When played backwards, the backwards audio becomes even stranger - a rhyming poem.

The final words of this message, or possibly the entire audio track, is taken from a Canadian public service TV ad from the time, warning people not to waste electricity.

Whether this is the real thing, just reversed, or somebody's weird poem inspired by same, is not clear.

Truly, something to watch and think ... what the hell?





Any fans who could convert this into Flash format (backwards then forwards on loop), I'd appreciate that - that would be fun to see. Maybe bug Skot for some uncompressed images. starwarsholidayspecial.com.
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I rather not watch it. Might give me nightmares, from what ocpmovie described. I'm serious.
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Wow, who'd have thunk there'd be deleted scenes from the Holiday Special? What a great(???) find - well, maybe for masochistic holiday special completests anyway

Luscafilm should definitely release the Holiday Special on DVD - they could even include a small hammer with every copy, just so Lucas can fulfill his wish to destroy every copy.

And why hasn't Lucas given this the special edition treatment it deserves? How hard can it be to CGI a black rectangle over the entire screen for an hour and a half?

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Fascinating, but not much more scary than those neon billboards on Coruscant in Episode II.
IIRC, that's the same lettering style used elsewhere in the cartoon...
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In fact, watching Star Wars Holiday Special means wasting electricity... from a certain point of view
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Originally posted by: RRS-1980
In fact, watching Star Wars Holiday Special means wasting electricity... from a certain point of view


That's what I thought when I first saw this thread's title: a brand new holiday special scene to waste more eletricity.

I... I still don't want to watch this thing....
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It might definitely give you nightmares.

It must be watched. It's the law.
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I will. Just not now, can't watch it here.

I did watch Leia singing the Life Day song though. Oh God... I can't watch SW the same way now...

From what I've read: perhaps this "alien commercial" bit was supposed to be on a TV set on the show, like in the background, when the cartoon was over...? And it got cut, maybe? That would explain the audio and the crude animation, it was not supposed to be in full view...
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Originally posted by: twister111
I watched it twice(once becuase, my sound was turned down. Second with the sound on.). I don't see what's so, bad about it(kind of a no comment sort of rating). Though, after watching it I now have a headache that just came about.




You mean Leia singing, or the alien commercial?
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The fact that there are cut scenes means that the holiday special actually had some sort of quailty control...
Who the hell was in charge of that?!

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Sounds kinda like the Ready Kilowatt scene in Hardware Wars.
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The fact that there are cut scenes means that the holiday special actually had some sort of quailty control...
Who the hell was in charge of that?!


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Originally posted by: twister111
I watched it twice(once becuase, my sound was turned down. Second with the sound on.). I don't see what's so, bad about it(kind of a no comment sort of rating). Though, after watching it I now have a headache that just came about.




You mean Leia singing, or the alien commercial?


The alien commercial. I've not seen Leia singing. Does watching it induce the same kind of headache?


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Originally posted by: twister111
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Originally posted by: ricarleite
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Originally posted by: twister111
I watched it twice(once becuase, my sound was turned down. Second with the sound on.). I don't see what's so, bad about it(kind of a no comment sort of rating). Though, after watching it I now have a headache that just came about.




You mean Leia singing, or the alien commercial?


The alien commercial. I've not seen Leia singing. Does watching it induce the same kind of headache?




It is probably worse. The worse thing is not the singing, is watching Harrison Ford there, watching the whole thing. Those were precious hours of his life that were wasted in shooting that thing...
“Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.” — Nazi Reich Marshal Hermann Goering
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Originally posted by: ricarleite
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Originally posted by: twister111
I watched it twice(once becuase, my sound was turned down. Second with the sound on.). I don't see what's so, bad about it(kind of a no comment sort of rating). Though, after watching it I now have a headache that just came about.




You mean Leia singing, or the alien commercial?


The alien commercial. I've not seen Leia singing. Does watching it induce the same kind of headache?




It is probably worse. The worse thing is not the singing, is watching Harrison Ford there, watching the whole thing. Those were precious hours of his life that were wasted in shooting that thing...



one of the best scenes of this awful film is what you mentioned above about Harrison Ford. You can just tell he is thinking, "God, what did I sign up for? I was in Apocalypse Now for Christ's sake! This Sucks!"

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Damn I hate that someone will come out with this on dvd and then i will have to get another crapified version of the Holiday Sp
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As I like to say "Bring it on!!" This is a great find! THat something like this would exist out there after 27 or so years just hurts my head.
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Has anyone tried reediting the Angrysun release of HS to include this as an extra (or an Easter Egg )?
If not, I'm downloading the Angrysun files tomorrow, so I might give it a try, though I cannot promise anything...
By the way, is that the highest available quality of this clip?
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Even for the holiday special, that clip... was very strange. Maybe Carrie was sharing, huh?

By the way, why is it that every time I mention something like the holiday special, holiday special, holiday special, one of the words is highlighted yellow?
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Originally posted by: Adamwankenobi
Even for the holiday special, that clip... was very strange. Maybe Carrie was sharing, huh?

By the way, why is it that every time I mention something like the holiday special, holiday special, holiday special, one of the words is highlighted yellow?

Do you mean like this? Well, every time you enter a thread you can add &highlight_key=y&keyword1= to the url. Then whatever word you want to highlight and, there you go it's highlighted throughout the thread.


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