Never Mind (Here's Boba Fett)

As part of the British Underground Feature Initiative and their educational Motion Picture Arts Academy (not be be confused with that MPAA or this Academy!) this short documentary on Boba Fett was created to take people back to the era of the Original Trilogy.




Some of the most fascinating footage is the "home video" shot in George Lucas' back garden, and the film of an early Boba Fett prototype walking around to promote the upcoming movie The Empire Strikes Back - which was not guaranteed to be a hit at that time.

What really takes me back is the shots of the toyshop (the Cowplain Model Shop was local) and the racks-and-racks of carded action figures for sale (although they were never that well stocked in Cowplain Models!).

As a child I often wondered what the Palitoy factory looked like, and there is also a brief peek inside the UK plant at Coalville, Leicester.

It could be anywhere between 1978 - 1982 once more.

Hush Hush New Star Wars Project

Well I can't let July go by without a blog entry. Things have been moving thick-and-fast for me, Deer Studios, and I.

If it's not FilmRaker it's SongRaker and if it's neither of those it's the miker smelting pot of lowest common denoms.

So imagine my excitement when me - Star Wars fan since it's UK screening Christmas 1977 - gets a draft of a hush hush Star Wars project through his letterbox.

Hush hush.