A long time ago in a galaxy far far away
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A long time ago in a TV studio not so far away, the stars of the original Star Wars film came to the BBC to promote their then-unknown movie Star Wars at the BBC (Iplayer) (Youtube)
Michael Aspel interviews Mark Hamill
C3PO meets Noel Edmonds
Mark Hamill appears on Blue Peter
Another Blue Peter clip
Michael Rodd looks at Star Wars
The secret of Star Wars' success - Tomorrow's Worlds: The Unearthly History of Science Fiction - BBC
The Risk Business ( Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back)
Alex Guinness talks to Micheal Parkinson
The BBC Concert Orchestra at the Proms - Star Wars suite (Imperial March, Princess Leia's theme, Cantina Band, Main Theme)
Star Wars: 'Greatest' living geek actor?
Star Wars on BBC Antiques Roadshow
Mark Kermode reviews "Star Wars: Phantom Menace 3D"
BBC Collectaholics 2014 Star Wars Fan
Michael Aspel interviews Mark Hamill
C3PO meets Noel Edmonds
Mark Hamill appears on Blue Peter
Another Blue Peter clip
Michael Rodd looks at Star Wars
The secret of Star Wars' success - Tomorrow's Worlds: The Unearthly History of Science Fiction - BBC
The Risk Business ( Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back)
Alex Guinness talks to Micheal Parkinson
The BBC Concert Orchestra at the Proms - Star Wars suite (Imperial March, Princess Leia's theme, Cantina Band, Main Theme)
Star Wars: 'Greatest' living geek actor?
Star Wars on BBC Antiques Roadshow
Mark Kermode reviews "Star Wars: Phantom Menace 3D"
BBC Collectaholics 2014 Star Wars Fan
Are we collecting weird bits of Star Wars stuff here?
Our provincial archives tweets a historical photo each day. Here's one from a long time ago.
And it seems our provincial legislature is getting into the spirit.
posted by GhostintheMachine at 6:07 PM on December 17, 2015
Our provincial archives tweets a historical photo each day. Here's one from a long time ago.
And it seems our provincial legislature is getting into the spirit.
posted by GhostintheMachine at 6:07 PM on December 17, 2015
Mark Hamill interviewed at Imperial College London, 1977.
posted by bettafish at 7:33 PM on December 17, 2015
posted by bettafish at 7:33 PM on December 17, 2015
Is this the thread where I do a backflip and yell that the new movie is fucking awesome?
Because the new movie is fucking AWESOME
posted by Senor Cardgage at 10:14 PM on December 17, 2015 [2 favorites]
Because the new movie is fucking AWESOME
posted by Senor Cardgage at 10:14 PM on December 17, 2015 [2 favorites]
No, this is the thread in which we do backflips and yell about how the new movie is fucking awesome.
posted by el io at 10:50 PM on December 17, 2015 [3 favorites]
posted by el io at 10:50 PM on December 17, 2015 [3 favorites]
No, this is the thread in which we do backflips and yell about how the new movie is fucking awesome.
I. must. resist. the. urge. to. click. must. hold. out. until. monday. mayday. mayday. MAYDAY!
posted by mazola at 11:33 PM on December 17, 2015 [4 favorites]
I. must. resist. the. urge. to. click. must. hold. out. until. monday. mayday. mayday. MAYDAY!
posted by mazola at 11:33 PM on December 17, 2015 [4 favorites]
Is this the one about the fucking space hairdresser and the cowboy? He's got a tinfoil pal and a pedal bin. His father's a robot and he's fucking fucked his sister.
Lego. They're all made of fucking Lego.
(FWIW, Star Wars wasn't unknown in the UK in late 1977, just unseen. As someone who was thirteen at the time I can attest that we knew all about it. I had the book and the Marvel comic and watched whatever clips or interviews were turning up on the TV. I and my peers were like crazed surfers in the face of an impending tsunami. Our parents viewed the coming Star Wars phenomenon more like the owners of beachfront property in the same eventuality. The poster was up in all the stations we passed through on the way to London to see it early the next year. It was probably the coolest thing I'd ever seen.
Although I was completely blown away by Star Wars, it never quite lived up to the anticipation.)
posted by Grangousier at 11:55 PM on December 17, 2015 [3 favorites]
Lego. They're all made of fucking Lego.
(FWIW, Star Wars wasn't unknown in the UK in late 1977, just unseen. As someone who was thirteen at the time I can attest that we knew all about it. I had the book and the Marvel comic and watched whatever clips or interviews were turning up on the TV. I and my peers were like crazed surfers in the face of an impending tsunami. Our parents viewed the coming Star Wars phenomenon more like the owners of beachfront property in the same eventuality. The poster was up in all the stations we passed through on the way to London to see it early the next year. It was probably the coolest thing I'd ever seen.
Although I was completely blown away by Star Wars, it never quite lived up to the anticipation.)
posted by Grangousier at 11:55 PM on December 17, 2015 [3 favorites]
Watched this on iPlayer last night, and loved Mark Hamill's description of the plot of the first movie as a fairy tale featuring a farm boy, a princess, a wizard and a pirate. I mean, we've heard it many times since, but to see him being so open about it - describing the plot as a bunch of nonsense on which to hang all the special effects - was refreshing after all the layers of Meaning overlaid on it over the years.
Plus he totally dispelled the rumours about having needed facial reconstruction surgery after his accident, which never seem to have gone away.
posted by rory at 1:38 AM on December 18, 2015 [2 favorites]
Plus he totally dispelled the rumours about having needed facial reconstruction surgery after his accident, which never seem to have gone away.
posted by rory at 1:38 AM on December 18, 2015 [2 favorites]
I kind of wonder how the original promotional tour rates in both 1977 terms and current terms. I can remember some cast member on Milwaukee's local Dialing for Dollars show with Rosemary and Howard Geurnette.
posted by klarck at 4:33 AM on December 18, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by klarck at 4:33 AM on December 18, 2015 [2 favorites]
Watched A New Hope last night for the first time in a long time. It's a surprisingly talky film.
posted by GallonOfAlan at 9:12 AM on December 18, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by GallonOfAlan at 9:12 AM on December 18, 2015 [1 favorite]
Watched A New Hope last night for the first time in a long time. It's a surprisingly talky film.
Looking back from now, yes*. For the 1970s, it is frenetic to the point of being nearly unintelligible. I recall as a sugar-charged preteen being hauled along to many other big films of the era. Star Wars was somewhere between the talky prestige dramas that were glacially-paced from a kid's point of view (All The President's Men, say) and loopy brainless comedies (Car Wash, e.g.) and it was much better put together than anything else that appealed to kids (Bedknobs and Broomsticks).
*Or rather, "from a certain point of view."
posted by ricochet biscuit at 4:12 PM on December 18, 2015 [2 favorites]
Looking back from now, yes*. For the 1970s, it is frenetic to the point of being nearly unintelligible. I recall as a sugar-charged preteen being hauled along to many other big films of the era. Star Wars was somewhere between the talky prestige dramas that were glacially-paced from a kid's point of view (All The President's Men, say) and loopy brainless comedies (Car Wash, e.g.) and it was much better put together than anything else that appealed to kids (Bedknobs and Broomsticks).
*Or rather, "from a certain point of view."
posted by ricochet biscuit at 4:12 PM on December 18, 2015 [2 favorites]
Holy shit, is greeble really pronounced gree-blee? All this time I was pronouncing it gree-bal. This changes everything.
posted by Rhomboid at 3:51 AM on December 19, 2015
posted by Rhomboid at 3:51 AM on December 19, 2015
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