Star Wars - Episode IV: Deleted Magic Revisited


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Star Wars - Episode IV: Deleted Magic Revisited

Faneditor: OCPmovie  
Fanedit Type: Documentary/Review
Fanedit Release Date: 1st March 2005
Fanedit Runtime: 1h:49m:0s
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Franchise: Star Wars
Genre: ActionAdventureFantasySci-Fi
Original Title: Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)   
Original Release Date: 1st January 1977
Original Runtime: 2h:1m:0s
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Certificate: U
Source: DVD
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Synopsis:

This is a very interesting documentary about the making of the first Star Wars film (and to a lesser extent Empire and Jedi) including a look at some of the deleted scenes, behind the scenes footage, and notes on subtle things that you might have never seen or noticed before.


Intentions:

In March 2005, I created a DVD called Deleted Magic and released it for free, on a non-profit basis, on the internet. It was very popular. I’m told that Clive Young’s book Homemade Hollywood called it “The best documentary ever made on the making of Star Wars.” In 2009, I decided to revisit the major deleted scenes of Star Wars. Most of these scenes had only been released in low quality, 12 frames per second, on CD-ROMs in the late 90s. I used the program Twixtor to generate new frames and restore these scenes to 24 frames per second – not a perfect solution during fast motion, but jaw-droppingly successful during dialogue scenes, and an improvement that is like night and day. I combined a multitude of new sources within the same frame to restore the Jabba the Hutt scene. I animated a shot of Luke and a Treadwell droid, and a shot of Ben attacking with his lightsaber during the Cantina sequence. I have restored these scenes to a quality never seen before, and placed them on this disc for you, edited into the original, unchanged Deleted Magic feature documentary from 2005. Enjoy.


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Special Thanks:

Mark Johnson Brad Cook Peter Lopez Jambe Davdar (Jabba the Hutt scene).


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