Comment The Most Magical Years (Score 1) 210
Were 1977-1980
George, constrained by a reasonable budget, gave us just enough. A deftly spare sketch of an entire universe. I started drawing, model making, and animating. Others started writing, painting, costuming, and composing. The true value and measure of Star Wars is that it re-kindeled the imagination of a generation. This amazing film got us doing and thinking. Of late, it has become a fundamentalist religion, with cannons, dogmas, sects, and rebellions. This is proof of the power it taps into, Use that power to create the future, not morn the past.
Yes, it would be lovely to have the original film back. Somewhere, somehow, somebody deep in Disney/Fox/LucasFilm has their hands on the 1977 CMY B&W separations. This is the only proven archival photographic material. Hopefully they have been cleaned and scanned to 4K. God knows what's happened to the audio tapes by this time.
When the agents and lawyers have circumscribed their pound of flesh (and maybe after a few more creators have died or sold out) the film will be restored. They usual marketing ballyhoo is: "See It As The Director Intended" Rather ironic in this case.
George, constrained by a reasonable budget, gave us just enough. A deftly spare sketch of an entire universe. I started drawing, model making, and animating. Others started writing, painting, costuming, and composing. The true value and measure of Star Wars is that it re-kindeled the imagination of a generation. This amazing film got us doing and thinking. Of late, it has become a fundamentalist religion, with cannons, dogmas, sects, and rebellions. This is proof of the power it taps into, Use that power to create the future, not morn the past.
Yes, it would be lovely to have the original film back. Somewhere, somehow, somebody deep in Disney/Fox/LucasFilm has their hands on the 1977 CMY B&W separations. This is the only proven archival photographic material. Hopefully they have been cleaned and scanned to 4K. God knows what's happened to the audio tapes by this time.
When the agents and lawyers have circumscribed their pound of flesh (and maybe after a few more creators have died or sold out) the film will be restored. They usual marketing ballyhoo is: "See It As The Director Intended" Rather ironic in this case.