By Quinn Bender
If the last three Star Wars prequels left a sour taste in your mouth, you’ll want to head over to David Berry’s blog for some authentic Star Wars nostalgia. Last Tuesday the optical cameraman posted 8mm home movies of his special effects team in action at the Van Nuys studio in 1976. Berry describes it as “crude home movies from the 1970s depicting activities at a certain location in the San Fernando Valley.” Set to John Williams’ gorgeous trade mark scores, the 10-minute reel introduces us to those responsible for flipping the visual effects universe on its head, and of course shows the crew manipulating some of the models used in actual filming.
A lot of the names in this movie are now legendary. As for David Berry himself, he hasn’t got a lot of film credits to his name — the Star Wars trilogy, Indiana Jones trilogy, E.T., Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Battlestar Galactica among them — but every one certainly counts.
In related news, George Lucas is rumored to be speaking through video conference at this year’s Comic-Con Star Wars pavilion. There’s no mention on whether he has news on the possibility of a Star Wars live-action television series, but if there’s any time and place to talk, Comic-Con is it.
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