Fear and Loathing in The Star Wars Holiday Special
Updated: 27th April 2024
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Faneditor: TM2YC 
Fanedit Type: Shorts
Fanedit Release Date: 1st July 2013
Fanedit Runtime: 0h:18m:0s
Time Cut: 1h:19m:0s
Time Added: 0h:0m:0s
Franchise: Star Wars
Genre: Action • Adventure • Fantasy • Sci-Fi
Original Title: Star Wars: Holiday Special (1978)
Original Release Date: 1st January 1978
Original Runtime: 1h:37m:0s
Certificate: U
Source: Digital
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Fanedit Type: Shorts
Fanedit Release Date: 1st July 2013
Fanedit Runtime: 0h:18m:0s
Time Cut: 1h:19m:0s
Time Added: 0h:0m:0s
Franchise: Star Wars
Genre: Action • Adventure • Fantasy • Sci-Fi
Original Title: Star Wars: Holiday Special (1978)
Original Release Date: 1st January 1978
Original Runtime: 1h:37m:0s
Original Links:
Certificate: U
Source: Digital
Resolution:
Sound Mix:
Language:
Subtitles:
Synopsis:
This edit is only about a quarter of an hour as it features only the cream of the madness from this notorious TV Show. Including Princess Leia singing, avant-garde alien dance, Wookiee pornography, drinking through the top of your head, a cooking lesson from an alien drag-queen in blackface, a bar of drunken aliens and a Stormtrooper rubbing a ceramic penis.
This edit is only about a quarter of an hour as it features only the cream of the madness from this notorious TV Show. Including Princess Leia singing, avant-garde alien dance, Wookiee pornography, drinking through the top of your head, a cooking lesson from an alien drag-queen in blackface, a bar of drunken aliens and a Stormtrooper rubbing a ceramic penis.
Intentions:
I was scanning through the SW holiday special (Never watched it properly before 'cause I couldn't stand it ) for my Workprint project and noticed that some of it comes off like a terifying acid-trip nightmare. Thus the idea of compiling and remixing only the very trippy-est moments into a short film.
I was scanning through the SW holiday special (Never watched it properly before 'cause I couldn't stand it ) for my Workprint project and noticed that some of it comes off like a terifying acid-trip nightmare. Thus the idea of compiling and remixing only the very trippy-est moments into a short film.
Change List:
It's about 15 minutes (Not including intro and credits) of only the most baffling footage from the SWHS. I suggest pouring yourself beer* (Or something stronger or stranger), turning off the lights and taking a voyage into Director Steve Binder's "Vision" of family entertainment. A vision so trippy and demented that even George Lucas couldn't top it when he came to make his Prequels (God knows he tried!).
It's about 15 minutes (Not including intro and credits) of only the most baffling footage from the SWHS. I suggest pouring yourself beer* (Or something stronger or stranger), turning off the lights and taking a voyage into Director Steve Binder's "Vision" of family entertainment. A vision so trippy and demented that even George Lucas couldn't top it when he came to make his Prequels (God knows he tried!).
Additional Notes:
I have... - In some cases I've re-arranged, cut-up and looped the footage. In most cases it was already mad enough! I have not... - Added any sound or visuals (Outside of the opening titles and credit music) - Added any slow-mo - Adjust colours - Re-dubbed any audio - Or applied any visual FX ... i.e. if it looks crazy here, it looked crazy when it was first broadcast on an unsuspecting public in november 1978. Obviously the visual quality is limited by the VHS source material of this never-commercialy-released car-crash TV show.
I have... - In some cases I've re-arranged, cut-up and looped the footage. In most cases it was already mad enough! I have not... - Added any sound or visuals (Outside of the opening titles and credit music) - Added any slow-mo - Adjust colours - Re-dubbed any audio - Or applied any visual FX ... i.e. if it looks crazy here, it looked crazy when it was first broadcast on an unsuspecting public in november 1978. Obviously the visual quality is limited by the VHS source material of this never-commercialy-released car-crash TV show.
Other Sources:
Zion's Hybrid Restoration of The Star Wars Holiday Special A/J/E - Trap (Star Wars Dubstep).
Zion's Hybrid Restoration of The Star Wars Holiday Special A/J/E - Trap (Star Wars Dubstep).
Special Thanks:
Thanks to originaltrilogy.com's darth_ender for suggesting I watch SWHS in the first place. What looked like being a chore, actually turned into a bunch of fun.
Thanks to originaltrilogy.com's darth_ender for suggesting I watch SWHS in the first place. What looked like being a chore, actually turned into a bunch of fun.
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