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| The Star Wars crew shooting Darth Vader at Elstree Studios |
One hundred years have gone by since a film company with the appropriately space-themed name Neptune founded what would become the home of Star Wars.
A blog about Star Wars (Episode IV A New Hope) the first time around in the 1970s. Including production, first release, reviews, merchandising, the novelization, Super 8 movies, Marvel comics and more.
Showing posts with label Dam Busters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dam Busters. Show all posts
Thursday, 20 November 2014
Elstree Studios: the home of Star Wars turns 100
One hundred years have gone by since a film company with the appropriately space-themed name Neptune founded what would become the home of Star Wars.
Thursday, 16 January 2014
From The Wizard of Oz to Hidden Fortress: the moments from other films spotted in Star Wars
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| Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (1940) |
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| Star Wars |
Read some of the original reviews and you’d think that making Star Wars was a lot like creating Frankenstein’s Monster: You just stitched together bits of other people’s films and then let it loose upon the box office. Critics of the time loved to show how clever they were by cataloguing the images and plot ideas they had caught Lucas lifting from other films.
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