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Yeah, I tried that too :D

Thanks for the heads up. I've found those other shots about, but I'm specifically looking for the shot of Lucas as a tie-in to my The Editor post. For a guy who loves editing so much, it's surprising that there are no shots of him at a KEM or Moviola (or EditDroid for that matter).

I double-checked my 1997 revision; not there I'm afraid.

There exists a photo of Lucas standing in front of the EditDroid with an image of Vader's meditation chamber on the screen. It's seen in this preview for the EditDroid documentary.

Does anyone have a decent copy?

Indeed, but the trend is strong enough that I let it slide.

He also made Star Wars, built LucasFilm and its sea of subsidiaries that went on to completely revolutionize filmmaking and somehow managed to turn Star Wars into one of the biggest, if not the biggest, franchises of all time.

The first issue is set for September by the way.

More info, plus a new Tavoularis storyboard (those are my favorite, almost up there with McQuarrie's work).

Yeah, that was Maker of Film. I got that from pugnstuf and released it on my blog. 

Grievous alone is four; then there's Palpatine's chamber, which alone is something like 7 or so. Anyway, the video is there, by all means check my counting :D

@none, great site. I found an article I hadn't run across before that fits the theme of my book perfectly.

Also, for the copy/paste impaired.

I'd always wondered if there was any correlation between the number of times a lightsaber is used and how well the movie was received. So I ran the numbers. Keep in mind, these are on-screen ignitions; it was a lot faster and easier a metric to obtain than ignitions in general.

Yep, and this is research for my book on the influences Lucas drew on for the creation of Star Wars. 

It's a wild shot, but I've had crazy luck with those before, so I figured I'd give it a try.

In 1967, when Lucas was doing the 6-18-67 short 'documentary', PBS in LA ran a program about the four scholarship students from USC and UCLA that were on location with McKenna's Gold.

Does anyone have it?

I’ve been chasing this short for years. Finally found it.

Well first of all Eisenstein isn't exactly from the other side of the track, so to speak. But also, Lucas had an image of Eisenstein hanging in his writing room when he was doing Star Wars IIRC (see Skywalking).

What he said. The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail is on Hulu+ by the way, I watched it a couple of nights ago. It's only 60 minutes long.

By the way Yojimbo is less like Red Harvest than most people make it out to be. The Glass Hand is more like it. But even there, it's more a matter of inspiration than anything else.

Yeah, it's that kind of negativity that makes me not want to frequent forums. Makes me wish ot.com had a ranking system where nuisances like that could be buried by the collective.

Not an April Fools' Day thing for sure.

It looks fantastic. Aside from more of McQuarrie's early work on Star wars, I've always wanted to see more of Tavoularis' work. And hey, the 'Pirate Ship'!

That was the way I initially thought I'd edit most of the videos I have, but once I started playing around with it, I figured out that setting the scene with the familiar often makes sense, before you then unveil the root of it.

Silverwook, I love you. 

So it took me three years to begin publishing it, but I've finally started putting me 'the inspirations of Star Wars' project online. Figured someone around here might be interested.

Kitbashed.

So I actually contacted Edward Summer last year and have met with him and interviewed him over a period of nearly a year. Unfortunately Rinzler printed some of my favorite bits (the sitting on the floor and reading the original Flash Gordon drawings was given a pretty flat delivery for a story as awesome as it is).

I've got the interviews on tape, and will write a big piece at some point when I can find time. For now I've started publishing my Kitbashed project, of which it is a part, at http://kitbashed.com.