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August 27, 2018

Rare Candid Polaroid Snaps Taken During the Making of ‘Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope’

In the spring of 1976, shooting began on Star Wars, a film described by its writer and director George Lucas as a modern fairytale set “a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away”. Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) dreams of becoming a space pilot and escaping his mundane life as a farm boy on the desert planet of Tatooine. His wish becomes reality when he’s plunged into the civil war between the evil Galactic Empire and a band of daring rebels, led by the beautiful Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher).


Star Wars was filmed on location in Tunisia and at Elstree Studios in Hertfordshire. Its innovative special effects were created in California by Lucas’s company, Industrial Light & Magic.

These rare and candid Polaroids from the making of Star Wars include scenes that never made the final cut and snapshots of the cast behind the scenes on an immortal sci-fi classic. The shots were owned by crew member Ann Skinner, who was the script supervisor on the production.


















(Images © BFI National Archive/© & TM Lucasfilm Ltd.)



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