Star Wars: Deleted Magic on Youtube

[tygerbug]

Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zuj36l1BkaA

Deleted scenes. Alternate footage. See a side of Star Wars you were never meant to see ... often funny, and a little embarrassing, it shows you how the filming of Star Wars often didn't go according to plan, but the film was saved quite brilliantly in the editing room.

I'm told that Clive Young's book Homemade Hollywood called it "The best documentary ever made on the making of Star Wars."

"It's great! What a terrific editing and collating job and such very good quality reproduction!" - Garrick Hagon, "Biggs Darklighter"

"Absolutely one of the best things to come out of fandom ever." - Skot Kirkwood, starwarscutscenes.com.

In 2005 I edited together this very different documentary about the making of Star Wars. I revisited it in 2009, using Twixtor and lots of other very technical tricks to improve the quality of many rare deleted scenes. (They were only ever released at 12 frames per second on a low quality CD-ROM in the 90s, so I used Twixtor to generate the missing frames.)

I've just uploaded the whole thing to Youtube in very nice quality.

Here's the whole playlist!
http://www.youtube.com/ocpmovie2#g/c/5BDBC890F84A79A8


  I should note that this film inspired a lot of copycats .... one of whom did some very good work.

  A British editor calling himself Jambe Davdar was inspired by my film to create Building Empire and Returning to Jedi, which are excellent deconstructions of the other two proper Star Wars films, with a similarly obsessive level of detail (and excellent research). These are viewable on Youtube @jambedavdar.

http://youtube.com/jambedavdar

  (He has now, however, annoyed me by doing a new film, Star Wars Begins, which retreads the same ground as Deleted Magic.)

   (Some other fans did their own attempts as making similar films for the prequels, but who cares? I haven't watched these.)

[Big Jack McBastard]

As resident Star Wars Fiend I'm vaguely interested, though wasn't most of this stuff included in the DVD releases?

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  A lot of good stuff was included in the Empire of Dreams documentary, but none of the proper deleted scenes, and they didn't duplicate material seen in the old Making Of special(s) and more obscure documentaries like one that aired on VH1 around that time. I had to go to dozens of sources to collect this material together - and once edited together in the right order, it starts to take on a LOT more meaning than as little clips in a documentary. You get a much clearer picture of what was really going on onset ....

[Big Jack McBastard]

I've had a wee looky and it's kept me watching up to the Sandcrawler but I need some kip.

I shall absorb the remainder in the coming days. Cheers,

[Paaaaul]

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  A British editor calling himself Jambe Davdar was inspired by my film to create Building Empire and Returning to Jedi, which are excellent deconstructions of the other two proper Star Wars films, with a similarly obsessive level of detail (and excellent research). These are viewable on Youtube @jambedavdar.

http://youtube.com/jambedavdar

  (He has now, however, annoyed me by doing a new film, Star Wars Begins, which retreads the same ground as Deleted Magic.)

Did you stab a voodoo doll of his PC? http://buildingempire.blogspot.com/

[tygerbug]

That's too bad. At least his rough edit is on Youtube and I wish him luck in recovering the data. Looks like he's had a hard time of it recently which explains his lack of progress on this (still fucking annoying) project.