New archive clip of how Star Wars was received in the UK.
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Robstyley
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Good find Dan, I like the blokes voice, well old skool!
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GREAT STUFF! Love seeing anything like this, it reminds you just how old the film is and how young it still feels.
Never knew that sign on the Odeon actually lit up at night!
I really hope Disney release the 'original/cleaned up' cut at some point.
Never knew that sign on the Odeon actually lit up at night!
I really hope Disney release the 'original/cleaned up' cut at some point.
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Awesome find!
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Great find 
great footage to see 8)
great footage to see 8)
Great find , amazing marketing as well
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Brillient, pure Star Wars.
Been looking thru some of the toy fair clips from the same source and found this.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h06tTx8s1kI
Some Star Wars toys at 3.30
Looks like it leads into the original clip posted above
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h06tTx8s1kI
Some Star Wars toys at 3.30
Looks like it leads into the original clip posted above
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cracatilla said:
Great clip and it looks like the first 9 moc's available (notice they are all Kenner), and what looks to be possibly the remaining 3 figures from the first 12 in some sort of tray at the top right of the display. I think I can make out the Jawa but not sure about the others (could be wrong also).
Nice
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Just given this a watch - Great stuff, quite possible the best 3 minutes I've spent today
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Looks great that would still b a smash if it come out now and not back then
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Great find as all have said.
Loving the Luke wax work in the Landspeeder on display. Foolish question, would the Stormtroopers be screen used? They looked too good.
And what ever happened to that wonderful giant flashing Star Wars poster outside of the cinema?
Love it.
Loving the Luke wax work in the Landspeeder on display. Foolish question, would the Stormtroopers be screen used? They looked too good.
And what ever happened to that wonderful giant flashing Star Wars poster outside of the cinema?
Love it.
Twin30mm
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Wonderful clip of 70s Britain and the hype surrounding SW.
Can't believe it was nearly 40 years ago
Got me thinking as to when I got my first glimpse of SW.
Pretty sure it was an episode of Screen Test that showed a clip, before the film went on general release.
Here's an odd clip. A contemporary interview with Richard O'Sullivan and Terry Scott after a SW screening.....
http://www.macearchive.org/Archive/...r-wars-box-office-smash/MediaEntry/28091.html
Can't believe it was nearly 40 years ago
Got me thinking as to when I got my first glimpse of SW.
Pretty sure it was an episode of Screen Test that showed a clip, before the film went on general release.
Here's an odd clip. A contemporary interview with Richard O'Sullivan and Terry Scott after a SW screening.....
http://www.macearchive.org/Archive/...r-wars-box-office-smash/MediaEntry/28091.html
Has anyone else noticed the stormtrooper holding the x wing has got his gloves on over his armour
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Brilliant footage. good finds.
There was a BBC clip from the SW opening but it's long gone. Does anyone know where it might have been saved and shared perhaps. Here is the old link.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/27/newsid_2544000/2544239.stm
Still on a SW on UK TV vibe, here's Sir Alec on Parkie.
https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCQQyCkwAGoVChMIs5Wi49r2xgIVyD8UCh0i8g5y&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D3IxN0N35skE&ei=O7qzVfOLB8j_UKLku5AH&usg=AFQjCNG5ynRWChjw7f8e-tZ5MKR_DsyN1Q&sig2=1jP_niZ5xVeoAR1EStudAQ
There was a BBC clip from the SW opening but it's long gone. Does anyone know where it might have been saved and shared perhaps. Here is the old link.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/27/newsid_2544000/2544239.stm
Still on a SW on UK TV vibe, here's Sir Alec on Parkie.
https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCQQyCkwAGoVChMIs5Wi49r2xgIVyD8UCh0i8g5y&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D3IxN0N35skE&ei=O7qzVfOLB8j_UKLku5AH&usg=AFQjCNG5ynRWChjw7f8e-tZ5MKR_DsyN1Q&sig2=1jP_niZ5xVeoAR1EStudAQ
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This is fantastic footage. It would have been great if the news report had included the laser light that was beamed on to the Centre Point high rise building, around the corner from the Dominion Theatre Tottenham Court Road, which is the first cinema shown. Lasers were brand-new technology, so seeing Star Wars imagery beamed on to a building must have appeared as if it had come from outer space! I suppose the night time filming crew wanted to get footage of the animated lit up hoarding on the other cinema showing Star Wars, the Odeon Theatre Leicester Square that’s about a twenty minute walk away. It’s the first time I have seen the sign lit up and moving, so that’s a bonus in itself!
The Stormtrooper costumes at the Science Museum are probably screen used. The landspeeder and Luke and Ben mannequins had been shipped from the USA, as they were used for long-shots of the vehicle filmed in California. The darkened quality of the Star Wars clips reminds me of when the film was first shown. It was a lot darker and the special effects were a lot more convincing that way, because a lighter print exposes many problems with the effects.
The fantastic Terry Scott footage was from the northern U.K premiere of Star Wars organised by Palitoy at the Birmingham Gaumont cinema. Palitoy wanted its entire sales team to see the film ahead of the national toy fair. Shame that Birmingham got a premiere (all be it with some small time stars and nobody from Star Wars) and London didn’t. The hype was already at a fever pitch, so I suppose 20th Century Fox thought that spending out on a premiere would have been a waste.
The Stormtrooper costumes at the Science Museum are probably screen used. The landspeeder and Luke and Ben mannequins had been shipped from the USA, as they were used for long-shots of the vehicle filmed in California. The darkened quality of the Star Wars clips reminds me of when the film was first shown. It was a lot darker and the special effects were a lot more convincing that way, because a lighter print exposes many problems with the effects.
The fantastic Terry Scott footage was from the northern U.K premiere of Star Wars organised by Palitoy at the Birmingham Gaumont cinema. Palitoy wanted its entire sales team to see the film ahead of the national toy fair. Shame that Birmingham got a premiere (all be it with some small time stars and nobody from Star Wars) and London didn’t. The hype was already at a fever pitch, so I suppose 20th Century Fox thought that spending out on a premiere would have been a waste.
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