No, this isn’t turning into a Star Wars blog, but there’s some sort of odd nexus going on right now, where unseen footage keeps popping up all over the place at such a rate that it’s hard to keep up.
StarWars.com has previously written about the all-white proto-fett, but today went ahead and posted parts of the 20-minute never-before-seen footage of Ben Burtt, Norman Reynolds and Duwayne Dunham showing off a prototype, all-white, Boba Fett costume. It’s awesome.
PS: Duwayne Dunham isn’t as well-known as Ben Burtt or Norman Reynolds, but it just so happens that I’ve been re-reading Droidmaker, as a sort of research for our roadtrip, and just yesterday, I came across Duwayne on page 82.
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The whole company was sent packing for their annual summer vacation today (as per tradition, a thunderstorm over Copenhagen is welcoming them). I’ll be working throughout most of the next three weeks, with the exception of a short stint to England, for a friend’s wedding, as Rikke and I have finally manned up and gone ahead with our plan for a roadtrip through California (and parts of Arizona).
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And the hits just keep on coming. David Berry, credited as an ‘optical print operator’ on IMDB has posted an extraordinary ten-minute home video of ILM in the years 1976 to 1978, with everything from actual behind-the-scenes of effects, models and what not, to the oscars and even some leisure time.
Man I love the internets.
PS: Rubin covered the beginnings (and ehm… everything else about ILM) from page 63 and forward in Droidmaker).
Michael Rubin put up a FAQ on his book Droidmaker, in the wake of it being available for free (What, you’re still not reading it? You have better things to do? Get going you lazy bum!). The most interesting of which is a explanation of the relationship between him and Lucas(film) as he was writing the book; trying to balance journalistic integrity with the wants and needs of both Lucasfilm as well as the myriad of sources needed to make the book come together.
It’s not that I’m embarrassed by my younger self, but… I’d prefer it if my blog continually contained mostly things that feel contemporary to me. Thus, employing government-sanctioned reality distortion field technology, I once again got Brian to do the heavy lifting and build me The Amazing Contemporizer while I kicked back, drank piña colada’s and cackled at my cat.
The Amazing Contemporizer is a plugin for WordPress which automatically sets posts older than X to private, causing a wave of privacy to flow over your older and perhaps less… refined, past as a blogger.
PS: Backup you blog before using. Seriously. No… Seriously!
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