Star Wars: Taking "A Long Time Ago" Very Seriously

Science Not Fiction
By Stephen Cass
Dec 11, 2008 4:15 AMNov 5, 2019 12:57 AM

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Care of io9, check out this hilarious silent movie remix of the Star Wars IV-VI. It also interesting to see how just dropping a few frames per second converts the unstoppable menace of the AT-AT advance on the rebels at Hoth into the twitchy dinosaurs of King Kong. Ah, stop motion animation. In a world of CGI, I miss you and your greatest practitioner, Ray Harryhausen.

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