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Star Wars (1977) - a 'Behind The Scenes / Making Of' images thread

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Star Wars (1977) - a ‘Behind The Scenes / Making Of’ images thread…

 
A companion thread (of sorts) for the Original Trilogy Film Crew & People Behind The Scenes: Profiles, Info & Links… thread - which aims to highlight the sheer brilliance, hard work, talent and awesome contributions of the Original Trilogy film crew, designers & artists, model-makers, special effects, set production, costume & make-up, stuntmen (and women), background actors / extras, publicity, and other amazingly talented and dedicated people who worked ‘Behind The Scenes’ on ‘The Making Of’ these three classic, landmark and groundbreaking Star Wars films…

…some of which may not have been seen for many years - as their respective work (all - or parts of) has been removed and replaced via the later (and continuing) Special Edition changes - with the unaltered original theatrical version of the films remaining unavailable to officially buy and experience.
 

Or just a thread for putting up some great ‘Behind The Scenes / Making Of’ pics from the films (including deleted scenes too) 😃
 

There are two similar threads for the other films in the Original Trilogy below:-

Empire Strikes Back - a ‘Behind The Scenes / Making Of’ images thread

Return Of The Jedi - a ‘Behind The Scenes / Making Of’ images thread
 

So if you have a cool, rare, alternative, different or favourite ‘Behind The Scenes / Making Of’ photo or image (or any other BTS info), please share and talk about it, in here…

 

All credit to mykyta, Abel & Biggs for suggesting making these three promising BTS image threads.

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A space for moderator comments / new categories / information etc…

 

Other Star Wars image threads which may be of interest:-

The random Pics & GIFs thread for the Original Trilogy - by Fated-Dualist

The Random Star Wars Pics & GIFs Thread - by Duracell Energizer, (in ‘General Star Wars Discussion’)

Awesome Star Wars art - by LexX, (in ‘General Star Wars Discussion’)

Star Wars Memes - by Knightmessenger, (in ‘General Star Wars Discussion’)

What Star Wars art or posters do you have on your wall? (or would you like?) - by Fated-Dualist, (in ‘Toys & Memorabilia’)

 

Video threads on the Original Trilogy which may be of interest:-

• The Original Trilogy: Making-Ofs & Documentaries, etc thread (YouTube, Vimeo, etc. finds)

• The Original Trilogy: Trailers/Promos thread (YouTube, Vimeo, etc. finds)

• The Original Trilogy: Random Videos thread (YouTube, Vimeo, etc. finds)

 

Documentaries on the Original Trilogy (located in ‘The Expanded Universe’ forum):-

• General Star Wars Documentaries (YouTube, Vimeo, etc. finds)

• Guide to Star Wars Documentaries and Special Features

• Star Wars Special Features and Documentaries YouTube Playlist

• The ‘Documentaries’ section in ‘An Index & Help Thread for The Expanded Universe’ may also be of interest.
 

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To kick off…
 

Joe Johnston and John Dykstra - with Joe in Vader-type costume for the 1976 ILM Halloween Party:-

^ this could mean that Joe Johnston was the first ever Star Wars cosplayer…? 😃
 

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My Jabba.

I prefer no Jabba at all in '77’s Star Wars, but if we are going to have one… then he was, is, and shall forever be, the original:-

RIP Declan Mulholland.

50 Cent is just an imposter

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Interesting that Marvel didn’t use him and went with this guy…

Have there ever been any good images of Mulholland’s costume? I think I see a blaster hanging from his belt?

Also…NAKED CHEWIE! 😮

Where were you in '77?

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Hard to say. Looks like a boom pole or something across the ground. Better pics are tough to find.

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I think there might be a Jabba costume sketch in The Art Of Star Wars, but I don’t have my copy handy. 😕

Did Jabba’s henchmen ever get names, especially the Greedo twins? And please don’t tell me one of them is Anakin’s little Rhodian pal from TPM. 😉

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There is a 1975 John Mollo sketch of Jabba in Rinzler’s Making of SW - he’s basically humanoid but has a third eye in his forehead.

“That Darth Vader, man. Sure does love eating Jedi.”

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You gotta love how esoterically specific Star Wars fans can get in their appreciation of these movies.

’Pink Shorts Boom Guy’ from Star Wars speaks out, becomes cosplay hit
https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/meet-ken-nightingall-mysterious-pink-shorts-boom-guy/story?id=64507354

Star Wars is Surrealism, not Science Fiction (essay)
Original Trilogy Documentaries/Making-Ofs (YouTube, Vimeo, etc. finds)
Beyond the OT Documentaries/Making-Ofs (YouTube, Vimeo, etc. finds)
Amazon link to my novels.

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That’s truly awesome, talk about a deep cut reference! When is beer gut/beret/scarf reflector guy going to get some love? 😛

One does wonder how George kept cool in that heat.

Where were you in '77?

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The following images are just a small part of benduwan’s quality collection of images from unused / deleted / production scenes from the Original Trilogy…

(I’ll post some more images from his collection later)

benduwan said:

i would like share a folder with pics from unused scenes that i collect if this is ok.

https://mega.nz/file/ekBUGKqC#_l5JO1Dw82imoS_f7H_3EaFIvlptVQrsOIZM54zKAtg

 

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more images from benduwan’s quality collection of images from unused / deleted / production scenes…
 

The FE Renegades thread; from the people who post ‘go kill yourself’, ‘fuck you’, ‘let’s throw abuse’, and more at OT staff & members. Four years on and still throwing accusations, slurs and abuse at the OT & anyone outside their Salacious Crumb filled clique. + FE Discord “to vent” more at the OT. Wook’s take.

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more images from benduwan’s quality collection of images from unused / deleted / production scenes…
 

The FE Renegades thread; from the people who post ‘go kill yourself’, ‘fuck you’, ‘let’s throw abuse’, and more at OT staff & members. Four years on and still throwing accusations, slurs and abuse at the OT & anyone outside their Salacious Crumb filled clique. + FE Discord “to vent” more at the OT. Wook’s take.

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more images from benduwan’s quality collection of images from unused / deleted / production scenes…
 

The FE Renegades thread; from the people who post ‘go kill yourself’, ‘fuck you’, ‘let’s throw abuse’, and more at OT staff & members. Four years on and still throwing accusations, slurs and abuse at the OT & anyone outside their Salacious Crumb filled clique. + FE Discord “to vent” more at the OT. Wook’s take.

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more images from benduwan’s quality collection of images from unused / deleted / production scenes…
 

The FE Renegades thread; from the people who post ‘go kill yourself’, ‘fuck you’, ‘let’s throw abuse’, and more at OT staff & members. Four years on and still throwing accusations, slurs and abuse at the OT & anyone outside their Salacious Crumb filled clique. + FE Discord “to vent” more at the OT. Wook’s take.

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many thanks Fated-Dualist. glad to see them here.
it is a hard work to search and collect them all.
a big thanks goes to darth_ender who has collect many of them in his big pic collection.
i have a collection of over 20000 pics,not sorted,but many rare of them.
if some interest in this ,pm me.
i try to upload them.
thanks

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Ah, Topps trading cards. I can still smell the bubble gum!

How did they hide Anthony Daniels’ arm for the wide shots? IIRC, they were sort of puppeteering Threepio’s upper body only for the closeup and the wipe to the next scene helps conceal this as they lift him up. Even if a one armed man was available, he had to fit into the suit.

And does the used speeder lot alien have hooves for hands? 😮

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more images from benduwan’s quality collection of images from unused / deleted / production scenes…

 

 

 

The FE Renegades thread; from the people who post ‘go kill yourself’, ‘fuck you’, ‘let’s throw abuse’, and more at OT staff & members. Four years on and still throwing accusations, slurs and abuse at the OT & anyone outside their Salacious Crumb filled clique. + FE Discord “to vent” more at the OT. Wook’s take.

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The final batch of images for Star Wars '77 - from benduwan’s collection…

A huge thanks to benduwan - I hope others put up and share their images as well 😃
 

 

 

 

The FE Renegades thread; from the people who post ‘go kill yourself’, ‘fuck you’, ‘let’s throw abuse’, and more at OT staff & members. Four years on and still throwing accusations, slurs and abuse at the OT & anyone outside their Salacious Crumb filled clique. + FE Discord “to vent” more at the OT. Wook’s take.

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Wait, is that a shot of the Death Star traveling through hyperspace?! Amazing!

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canofhumdingers said:

Wait, is that a shot of the Death Star traveling through hyperspace?! Amazing!

I’ll say! And they already had the effect to rear project on the set it seems.

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Fated-Dualist said:

more images from benduwan’s quality collection of images from unused / deleted scenes…

Just to make it clear, most of these are just regular production photos from the scenes as they were filming and others were just set up even though they don’t have anything to do with the film. Only some of them are from actual deleted scenes. They took thousands of production photos for reference.

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