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The Deathstar Set
That's no moon...
Click the
thumbnails for a full-size view.
Did
you gasp as you saw Obi-Wan climb onto the minuscule ledge,
over a never-ending shaft, to put the tractorbeam out of commission?
Well, this is what it really looked like.
Matte
painting replaced the black floor, surrounding the tractorbeam, with the
infinitely deep shaft you see in the movie.
Here's
another example of where mattepainting was used. (The bluescreen being
replaced with the mobile starlit sky.)
And
what they added...
The same technique was
used in the scene when Luke and Leia failed to extract the
bridge over a shaft, and had to swing over - Tarzan style.
A
similar technique was used to replace the steel-sabers, used to fence
with here, with the characteristic neon-glow of the lightsabers.
The ladder two are from rehersals. The actors were instructed in the
fine art of swordfighting by Peter Diamond, who started his career fencing
with Errol Flynn.
Filming
the exhaustport approach in the trench. If you
look closely, you'll see a mirror at the end of the model
trench, mounted there to add to the illusion of depth and length.
On
the filmstudio's parkinglot, a climactic scene - when torpedoes hit the
exhaustport, was staged.
In
this picture the explosion of a fighter in the trench is filmed.
Face-masks,
goggles, plastic gloves... everything to
ensure the perfection of the putting together of all
the tiny pieces that makes a Stardestroyer. A work
in progress in these 3 pictures.
David
Prouse walking down a corridor of the Deathstar as Darth Vader.
Brother
and sister, about to swing over one of the never-ending shafts, to
escape a party of stormtroopers.
George
giving last minute instructions to Peter "Chewie" Mayhew.
Carrie
Fisher, Harrison Ford and Mark Hamill on the set
of the Deathstar.
The two
youngest members of the cast relax between takes.
Back to Behind the Scenes
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