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If you want Unauthorized for this project Jambe I guess I could buy a copy from Ezydvd and then send it on.

To contact me outside the forum, for trades and such my email address is my OT.com username @gmail.com

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Originally posted by: skyjedi2005I believe Donald F. Glutt was also asked to pen the novelization for star wars but turned it down, and alan dean foster stepped in and wrote it.


Didn't George Lucas write the novelization for the first film? Glut then did Empire.

Take care,
Sojourn
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Originally posted by: Sojourn
Originally posted by: skyjedi2005I believe Donald F. Glutt was also asked to pen the novelization for star wars but turned it down, and alan dean foster stepped in and wrote it.


Didn't George Lucas write the novelization for the first film? Glut then did Empire.

Take care,
Sojourn



It's credited to Lucas, but it was ghostwritten by ADF.
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skyjedi2005

Had Charles Lippincott actually started a 'Making of' book that you know of?

Who stopped him and why?

Maybe he handed over the project to J.W Rinzler

'And you call yourselves human'

- Leia to Tarkin
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The story of the Making of ... book was on starwars dotcom a week or so ago.
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JD,

Is 'The Making Of Star Wars' listed in the first post the video "hosted" by C3PO & R2D2?
http://img3.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/ecbaa68384.jpg

If it is, I have an original VHS of it. Sadly, not in mint condition.

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Originally posted by: DVD-BOY
Originally posted by: Jambe Davdar
So far I like:

- Creating Star Wars (simple and to the point. No ambiguity)
- Constructing Star Wars (particularly as 'constructing' is part of the Star Wars vocabulary: - "I see you have constructed a new lightsaber""... begun construction on a new armoured space station" etc)


De-Constructing Star Wars?


How about Deconstructing Hope? This sounds like a very exciting project. Keep up the good work, Mr. Davdar!
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Jambe,

I know you're probably already planning on it, but I wanted to stress that you should use MoveAlong's Lost Scenes project for your source material for all the Behind The Magic stuff. Even though I haven't seen it quite yet (should be soon!), it appears to be the absolute best presentation of the material so far.

On a similar note, you will undoubtedly want to reconstruct the Han/Jabba scene as well. There are many sources containing bits and pieces of this scene, in varying quality, and unfortunately none of them even combined have the entire scene or dialogue. One of the sources is the Making Magic CD, and I've got MoveAlong looking into that to see if the video from there can be extracted the same way the video from Behind The Magic was for his Lost Scenes project. Hopefully it can, and that will be the way to get those particular pieces in the best possible quality. ocpmovie did a nearly complete reconstruction of this scene, the best version of which is found on the Return Of The Ewok DVD. In it he combined pieces from all the known sources, and he wound up layering fullscreen footage over widescreen footage from the SE to achieve widescreen shots for every piece. What I'd like to do is put together a complete list of all the sources of Han/Jabba footage that exist to give us an idea of what's out there, what kind of quality it's in, and whether or not it's widescreen. ocpmovie's version was excellent, but I think it can be done even better since I think we have some better quality footage to work with than he had at the time. I'll get hold of ocpmovie to see if he can list all his sources for me.

My archives are open for this project, of course. I have a bit more knowledge of the first film and maybe more to contribute than I do the others because it's nearer to my heart, and also that's where I've concentrated more of my cut scenes research. So anything I can help with, I will.

On the title front:

Originally posted by: Number20
My title suggestion is Beginning Star Wars. I think this fits in well with Building Empire and Returning to Jedi.
I was really gunning for "Starting Star Wars", as it fits well with the other two titles, and also has that whole "starting wars" implication going on. But now that I think about "Beginning Star Wars", I think that works even better with the other titles:

Beginning Star Wars
Building Empire
Returning To Jedi

First you are Beginning, and with Star Wars it is also THE Beginning.
Then you are Building from there, which is what Lucas was doing as he built on what Star Wars began.
And then you are Returning again, which is where everything comes around full circle.

"Beginning Star Wars" has my vote. "Starting Star Wars" would be my second choice.

--SKot

Projects:
Return Of The Ewok and Other Short Films (with OCPmovie) [COMPLETED]
Preserving the…cringe…Star Wars Holiday Special [COMPLETED]
The Star Wars TV Commercials Project [DORMANT]
Felix the Cat 1919-1930 early film shorts preservation [ONGOING]
Lights Out! (lost TV anthology shows) [ONGOING]
Iznogoud (1995 animated series) English audio preservation [ONGOING]

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Hi All,

Sorry about the late reply, neen away on business.

Ok, I already have the Making of Star Wars and The Unauthorized Story. Thanks for th offers though.

As for the Lost Scenes DVD, it's on it's way from MoveAlong. I also have a top guy working at cleaning up the footage for use in my project. Both guys have done an amazing job on this.

Re: The Jabba scene. I was intending on reconstructing the scene from all the available sources. Off the top of my head I think snippets can be found on the following:

Behind the Magic??
Making Magic
From Star Wars to Jedi
SE Press Kit

I am sure it can be found elsewhere, and I am sure on of you can tell me

JD

Creator of Star Wars Begins, Building Empire and Returning to Jedi
Follow me on twitter @jamieSWB. Please support me at - http://www.patreon.com/jamiebenning/

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I like Creating Star Wars, I'm not keen on the 'Starting Wars' pun idea.

I'm really looking forward to this.
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theres a very short clip in the making of the special edition.

“Always loved Vader’s wordless self sacrifice. Another shitty, clueless, revision like Greedo and young Anakin’s ghost. What a fucking shame.” -Simon Pegg.

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The 1997/2004 Jabba will not be making an appearance if I can help it. Though if he has to...

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OCP did an amazing job on the Jabba scene with the material available. There was one small snippet of that scene which we could only find on the Making of the Star Wars Trilogy Special Edition tape. I'm not sure how this feature relates to the SE Press kit.

If you are going to be reconstructing the Jabba scene and outlining its sources, I'd suggest you post a time code or time line or something of the SE footage so we can line up the pre-cgi footage properly. And just as a side note, I've had a suspicion that there are bits cut out of the Jabba scene that were filmed with dialogue from the 4th draft. And you might want to talk to Mr. Weller over at the Afficianado about Montross.
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Thanks Sluggo. I just assumed that the SE press kit DVD included some of the Jabba footage. I haven't really looked into this at all. I was merely answering a question. When the time comes, I will do a proper and thorough job of it.

JD

Creator of Star Wars Begins, Building Empire and Returning to Jedi
Follow me on twitter @jamieSWB. Please support me at - http://www.patreon.com/jamiebenning/

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No worries. Check your PM's for an unnecessary note.
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Here's some progress on the Anchorhead footage (under Laserman's guidance). Anchorhead Scene 1

Still plenty of work to do yet.

“I love Darth Editous and I’m not ashamed to admit it.” ~ADigitalMan

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looking sweet already!!!!
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Taking a look at the original Jabba scene today.

Can anyone send me the available material from the "Making Magic" CD-ROM please? If anyone is able to upload a VOB of it that would be perfect!

MANY THANKS to all of you who have sent me material lately! I really appreciate it. In future please write your OT.com name on the disc so that I know who to credit it to. It's very hard trying to keep track of everything.

Thanks
JD

Creator of Star Wars Begins, Building Empire and Returning to Jedi
Follow me on twitter @jamieSWB. Please support me at - http://www.patreon.com/jamiebenning/

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Originally posted by: ColinK
Originally posted by: 8t88
Does anyone has this 'Sculpting a Galaxy' DVD, and is it intresting?


Its the history of the ILM model shop by Lorne Peterson, contains many unseen photos from his own collection of the making of SW (ILM, Death Valley, Tikal). Its an amazing 2 x 15 minute slideshows with commentary. About 50% 1976.
So, not a movie or documentary, just photos.

If you live in the UK, pm me your addy for a copy if you'll PIF (just 5 copies).



I got this nice one from Colink, and promised to passed it on! So the first who PM's me can have a copy......

This one is gonna be send to :

1. Rebel11_38
2. daveytod
3. Harlock415

For further copy please contact one of the above....


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Originally posted by: Jambe Davdar
Taking a look at the original Jabba scene today.

Can anyone send me the available material from the "Making Magic" CD-ROM please? If anyone is able to upload a VOB of it that would be perfect!
I'm hoping that MoveAlong will be able to figure out a way to extract that material from Making Magic so he can get you the clips in the best possible quality. I have some rather good captures of those clips, but even those have some quality loss. However, if for some reason MoveAlong is unable to extract the video directly from the CD-ROM, these will probably be the best versions out there.

Quality on the video clips in Making Magic is actually worse than the quality of the video on Behind The Magic due to earlier (lack of?) technology. But there's still material there that is only available from that source, so it is important to have it.

Any idea what you'll do for the segments that are missing audio, video, or both?

--SKot

Projects:
Return Of The Ewok and Other Short Films (with OCPmovie) [COMPLETED]
Preserving the…cringe…Star Wars Holiday Special [COMPLETED]
The Star Wars TV Commercials Project [DORMANT]
Felix the Cat 1919-1930 early film shorts preservation [ONGOING]
Lights Out! (lost TV anthology shows) [ONGOING]
Iznogoud (1995 animated series) English audio preservation [ONGOING]

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I, unfortunately, have not been able to play/export the Making Magic .SAN video files. The tools/apps that I have found and tried have not worked for me. However, I am trying to do this with Windows 2000 Pro inside Virtual PC on my Mac (not exactly a speed demon setup!). I don't know if that has anything to do with my lack of success. I had no problems with the BTM material with this same setup, though. So SKot, your captures may well prove to be the best source. It would be great if someone else could try and take it upon themselves to directly export the .SAN video files from Making Magic. BTW, I've sent JD the FanFiltration DVD conversion along with the CD-ROM.

You can go about your business. Move along, move along.

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Any chance of an upload of these Making Magic files for a team effort?

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