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Re: Review 7124 - Flash Speeder
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Date: 
Fri, 7 Jan 2000 23:04:05 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, James Simpson writes:

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)


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 the lens. It was one of the things they wanted to clean up
in the SE.

-Jonathan



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(...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.starwars)

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