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Re: Review 7124 - Flash Speeder
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lugnet.starwars
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Fri, 7 Jan 2000 22:56:53 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Peter Merryman writes:
> Eric Kingsley wrote:
> This reminds me of the mirror trick used in "Star Wars". In a couple of shots,
> to make the landspeeder appear appear to hover a mirrored skirt was placed around
> the supporting structure below the chassis, hiding the wheels and reflecting the
> surrounding ground plane.
I can't remember the source, so take this for what it is worth: In the original
ANH, remember that shot when the Landspeeder coasts into Mos Eisley, and the
special effects shot had a sort of blurred, funky distortion underneath the
speeder that suggested dust being swirled up as the vehicle passed by? I
"heard" that that effect was done by putting vaseline on the camera lens. Is it
true? Who knows? (If you do, whether yea or nay, please tell me), but I've
heard that Lucas' technical people can be quite ingenious using low-tech means;
for example: Anybody remember that 60 Minutes piece about TPM shortly before it
was released? Among other things, the piece described how the sound that the
AATs make as they hover was done; it's the sound of a cordless shaver being run
inside of a metal bowl.
I don't remember the source (so take this for what it's worth)
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| (...) Building off of what James said, in the video edition of ANH - SE, in the little intro where they tell some of the differences in the two editions, somebody (it may have even been Lucas, himself) says what James wrote above about vaseline on (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.starwars)
| | | Re: Review 7124 - Flash Speeder
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| (...) the (...) being run (...) and the star destroyers' background engine sound is a cheap motel air conditioner, slowed way down, iirc. -- -Steven "Nothin' But Net!" (URL) (25 years ago, 13-Jan-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| (...) This reminds me of the mirror trick used in "Star Wars". In a couple of shots, to make the landspeeder appear appear to hover a mirrored skirt was placed around the supporting structure below the chassis, hiding the wheels and reflecting the (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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