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 Post subject: production reference photographs for ANH vader
PostPosted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 10:15 am 
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Not sure if this has been posted before, but i just found this article:


1. That no photos or information exists in the LUCASFILM ARCHIVES on the creation of the Vader mask/main costume. Very few behind the scenes shots are available in the LUCASFILM ARCHIVES of Dave Prowse as Darth Vader from A NEW HOPE.
:pale :pale :pale


http://blogs.starwars.com/star-wars77-mania/6 [/url]


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If that is infact true, which I can believe ,it's disappointing for sure and only adds to the ANH Vader prop myths. In other words exact things are still not known to this day and a lack of evidence in the achieve supports that we may never know some things.

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well, sometimes "knowledge" can be a "curse" ... :lol :lol :lol

I think us Collectors have come a long way with gathering informations
from the most various places. I believe some of us know far more about
all the ANH stuff than even the guys at ILM themselves will ever do - LOL ...

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Not true. There was a photographer/cinematographer there during the production....and work in the art department was photographed...I guess I am cursed....

And remember this is the guy who stated in the book that Liz Moore sculpted the stormtrooper, and he was then made to change that. :rolleyes


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Oh for sure, I agree. I think many of us have asked Muir,Mollo, Prowse, etc..Etc..and they lack knowledge or memory failure for definate.

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I get that not much may have been documented... though, iirc... there were those test shots of the Vader helmet - I think people refer to them as the mug-shots.

So far I haven't seen any production pictures of the Vader helmet sculpt or anything... shame really. Though there were those pictures from an auction some time ago... I think it is still debated whether that face and torso cast was an original.

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I have. And that full auction head is not an original....I spoke with Muir about it when I visited him and he agreed that it wasn't. There are just too many problems with it when you look at the eyebrows, shape of head, neck, etc....but I digress.


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SithLord wrote:
but I digress.


au contraire, Thomas, we are still talking about ANH Vader.


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Official Pix is finding ANH production shots.

I just received this one yesterday:
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That is so sweet Man! I love these kinds of pics. Would you have anymore?

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George looks like he's in love with Peter Cushing. Now, FASTER MORE INTENSE!


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I seem to remember an interview with Rinzler where he was talking about the vast amount of material he had to wade through for the making of book seems bizzare that of all that material so little of it would be on one of the central characters

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I believe there has to be more were this one came from. The owner of OP has told me before that there are hundreds of images in the archives but they are not well organized and they do not all get approved for release.

Someday.....


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Vader71 wrote:
I believe there has to be more were this one came from. The owner of OP has told me before that there are hundreds of images in the archives but they are not well organized and they do not all get approved for release.

Someday.....


Tell him we want Stormtrooper costumes pics (sell it to LFL as one of those "costumes waiting for their cue" pictures) and Vader pics (cause Vader is the man!)


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Vader71 wrote:
I believe there has to be more were this one came from. The owner of OP has told me before that there are hundreds of images in the archives but they are not well organized and they do not all get approved for release.

Someday.....


Maybe we'll get lucky and get some in the new Lucas archives book that's coming out.


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