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 Added on May 12, 2014  Alan Smithee   , , , ,

Elstree 1976 – Kickstarter

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When it comes to the topic of Star Wars, I usually defer to the superfans of the series such as staff writer Brian West to pen the articles concerning up and coming movies…but as a student and fan of the entire movie making industry, I called dibs on the article you’re reading because it’s a fascinating movie that I can’t wait to watch.

Elstree 1976

The film, Elstree 1976, is an independently made documentary by Jon Spira (see Anyone Can Play Guitar) that follows the lives of ten extras from the original filming of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. The film crew spent 18 months following the subjects, all of them were obscured by a mask or helmet in the movie, around as they live out normal lives and spend time in the autograph convention circuits.

The film is asking to reach a goal of approximately $50,000 to cover post production costs and to secure rights to the original footage. Seeing a film that not only has David Prowse AND Jeremy Bulloch in it but also the obscure people who played Greedo and Imperial Stormtroopers all telling tale of their brush with the juggernaut that is Star Wars seems like a no-brainer and with a mere $15 you can secure a digital download when all is said and done…I might just go over and donate today.

Here is a link to the Kickstarter!

Alan Smithee

by Alan Smithee

I sit upon my throne as the owner/shogun of this site, WatchPlayRead. But it wasn't always so. I too have had blogspots, I've done other community blogs, I've even written professionally for other sites out there...yet none of them provided the content I had a real passion for. It is then that I became tired of being a small cog in a big machine, and of writing about nothing but game news after game news article and the periphery that comes from such schlock, like knowing who Michael Pachter and Bobby Kotick are. I decided to start MediaWhoreNetwork.com and ran up my post count there for about 2 years, commenting about any and everything that I wanted to. I even started a weekly podcast that I feel has come into its own. It wasn't until earlier this year that I realized that having the word "whore" in your URL might be a bit limiting to my potential audience. I then made the website and its branding move over to WatchPlayRead.com.

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