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Author Topic: 'The Empire Strikes Back' turns 30 today... John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 05-20-2010 06:58 PM                     Well, it's May 21st here in Oz so...Happy Anniversary to one of the greats. Original trailer with Harrison Ford's voice-over.  |  IP: Logged Jonathan Althaus Master Film Handler Posts: 435 From: Bedford, TX Registered: Dec 2008 posted 05-20-2010 09:11 PM                     I just bought that trailer off ebay  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 05-20-2010 10:53 PM                     (uh-oh .... bringing up a warhorse movie again..lol) Have to laugh now with this: While I was running the re-release of "SW" in 1979, these trailers came out to be played. And to be original and to keep people in their seats, I spliced on this trailer (there was no green tag nonsense back then..) right before the end credits zoomed in, which I made the most fade-in approach to this trailer-like it was destined to be placed there ... and you should have heard the applause and screams from the crowds at our 1100 seat theatre suddenly anticipating this new "SW" release for the following summer of 1980. In short, I ran all of the original "SW" movies at this one house back then ... -Monte  |  IP: Logged Mark J. Marshall Film God Posts: 3188 From: New Castle, DE, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 05-20-2010 11:01 PM                    When we ran Episode III's midnight premier I ran a Star Wars trailer reel at around 11 PM (the theater was already full of die hard SW freaks by then). It was about 30 minutes long. That trailer is one of a very few that I was missing.  |  IP: Logged Mark Lensenmayer Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1605 From: Upper Arlington, OH Registered: Sep 1999 posted 05-21-2010 02:07 PM                     Michael Coate has a very thorough look at the early days of EMPIRE STRIKES BACK over at Cinema Treasures.  |  IP: Logged Michael Brown Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1522 From: Bradford, England Registered: May 2001 posted 05-21-2010 03:26 PM                     30 today? It's 2 weeks and 3 days older than me.  |  IP: Logged Bill Gabel Film God Posts: 3873 From: Technicolor / Postworks NY, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 05-21-2010 04:24 PM                     Also turning 30 this year is the Dolby CP-200.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-21-2010 05:13 PM                        Back when Empire came out I was not a Star Wars fan in any capacity. I only saw the first movie all the way thru when the theatrical reissues came out, whenever that was, and I became more of a fan (but still not a fanatic). Of course I knew the "big revelation" at the end of the movie long before I actually saw it, so it was anticlimactic for me. Too bad, it would have been a great jaw-dropping moment to experience.  |  IP: Logged Mark J. Marshall Film God Posts: 3188 From: New Castle, DE, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 05-21-2010 09:43 PM                    Anyone know of any mag prints in private hands? Just curious if they still exist - even though they're probably way pink by now.  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 05-21-2010 10:57 PM                     I have a test roll of Empire from 1980 in 70mm mag...don't recall if it was pink or tone...it has definitely turned to less than optimal color.  |  IP: Logged John Walsh Film God Posts: 2490 From: Connecticut, USA, Earth, Milky Way Registered: Oct 1999 posted 05-21-2010 11:42 PM                     We ran one of the few 70mm prints with no Dolby NR- and only tracks LCRS.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 05-22-2010 09:59 AM                     I wish I could have seen The Empire Strikes Back in 70mm back during its original run. Return of the Jedi is the only one of the original trilogy I was able to see in 70mm.  |  IP: Logged Martin McCaffery Film God Posts: 2481 From: Montgomery, AL Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-22-2010 10:20 AM                        I was the relief projectionist at the old Tyson Twin in northern VA. I we ran it for months. 70mm mag on Bauer U2's  |  IP: Logged Mark J. Marshall Film God Posts: 3188 From: New Castle, DE, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 05-22-2010 11:21 AM                    Anyone run 35 mag - or see it in that format?  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 05-22-2010 07:43 PM                     Well, yes and no. I ran a 35mm Mag/Optical print for one session only...although we did not have mag heads. The 6 reels were so big I had difficulty shutting the trunks.  |  IP: Logged

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