Aerial Camera System by Wesscam Camera Systems (Europe)
Aerial Cameraman:
Rod Goodman
Assistant:
Margaret Herron
Helicopter Supplied by Dollar Air Services Limited
Pilot:
Mark Wolfe
Cloud Plates Photographed with Astrovision by Continental Camera Systems Inc.
Snow Vehicles Supplied by Aktiv Fischer
R2 Bodies Fabricated by White Horse Toy Company
Special Assistance from Giltspur Engineering and Compair
Photographed on the Hardangerjøkulen Glacier, Finse, Norway, and at EMI-Elstree Studios, Borehamwood, England
Music Recorded at Anvil Studios, Denham, England
Re-Recording at Samuel Goldwyn Studios, Los Angeles, California
Special Visual Effects Produced at Industrial Light & Magic, Marin County, California
Filmed in Panavision
Recorded in Dolby Stereo
Color by Rank Film Laboratories
Prints by Deluxe
A Lucasfilm Ltd. Production
A Twentieth Century–Fox Release
Original Soundtrack on RSO Records
Novelization from Ballantine Books
Hamill takes a peek through the camera.
Detail of a painting by McQuarrie for the Empire portfolio, 1980, of an AT-AT and Luke Skywalker. “I wanted to show that split-second where you have to make a life-or-death decision,” says the artist.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES
Angell, Roger, “Cheers and Whimpers, The Current Cinema.” New Yorker, May 26, 1980.
Ansen, David, “The Force Is Back with Us.” Newsweek, May 19, 1980.
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Arnold, Gary, “Darth Vader’s Surprise Attack.” Washington Post, May 18, 1980.
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Brown, Peter H., “Can a NonHuman Win an Oscar?” Los Angeles Times, February 22, 1980.
Cain, Scott, “Long-Run Flight of Empire Strikes Back Continues, Though Phipps Will End It Soon.” Atlanta Constitution, November 30, 1980.
Canby, Vincent, “The Empire Strikes Back Strikes a Bland Note.” New York Times, June 15, 1980.
Cedrone, Lou, “The Actor Is a Star with No Identity.” Baltimore (Maryland) Evening Sun, June 2, 1980.
Cels, Roger, “Empire Screening in Antiblind-Bid States This Week.” Hollywood Reporter, April 18, 1980.
Champlin, Charles, “London: With the Force in Star Wars II.” Los Angeles Times, June 10, 1979.
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Chernoff, Scott, “Kenneth Colley Piett Ever So Humble.” Star Wars: Insider, Winter 1997.
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Hirsch, David, “Darth Vader Denied.” Starlog, July 1980.
Houston, David, “An Interview with Irvin Kershner.” Starlog, May 1980.
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Jensen, Pennfield, “Year of the Yoda: An Interview with Irvin Kershner,” Super-8 Filmaker, July–August 1980.
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———, “Tauntauns, Walkers, & Probots.” Cinefex, December 1980.
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BOOKS
Attias, Diana, and Lindsay Smith, The Empire Strikes Back Notebook. Ballantine, 1980.
Bouzerau, Laurent, Star Wars: The Annotated Screenplays. Random House, 1999.
Bulluck, Vic, and Valerie Hoffman, The Art of Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back. Del Rey, 1980.
Fisher, Carrie, Wishful Drinking. Simon & Schuster, 2008.
Flamini, Roland, Scarlett, Rhett, and a Cast of Thousands: The Filming of Gone with the Wind. Collier Books, Macmillan Publishing Company, 1978.
Hearn, Marcus, The Cinema of George Lucas. Abrams, 2005.
Petrou, David Michael, The Making of Superman: The Movie. Warner Books, 1978.
Rinzler, J. W., The Making of Star Wars. Random House, 2007.
Sansweet, Steve, and Pete Vilmur, The Star Wars Poster Book. Chronicle Books, 2005.
Smith, Thomas G., Industrial Light & Magic: The Art of Special Effects. Ballantine, 1986.
Solomon, Aubrey, Twentieth Century–Fox: A Corporate and Financial History. Scarecrow Press, 1988.
Vilmur, Pete, and Ryder Windham, The Complete Vader. Random House, 2009.
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ADDITIONAL QUOTE SOURCES AND INTERVIEWS (IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER)
Phil Tippet, Jon Berg, and Chris Anderson, mid–late 1979, interviews by Vic Bulluck.
Ronald C. Goodman, undated typed paper, “The Preparation and Shooting of the Aerials on the Empire Strikes Back,” circa 1980.
Richard Edlund, Harrison Ellenshaw, Dennis Muren, Bruce Nicholson, Peter Suschitzky in unedited manuscript for papers published in June edition of American Cinematographer, early 1980.
Irvin Kershner and Ralph McQuarrie, raw notes for interviews by Jim Steranko in Prevue magazine, early 1980.
Richard Edlund, Brian Johnson, Dennis Muren, Bruce Nicholson, as submitted to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, “An Overview of the Techniques Used for the Special Photographic Effects in the Picture,” 1980.
Miki Herman, Joe Johnston, George Lucas, Ralph McQuarrie, Dennis Muren, from Lucasfilm Legal Archives, early 1984.
George Lucas, from From Star Wars to Jedi: The Making of a Saga, video, written by Richard Schickel, 1985.
Ben Burtt, George Lucas, Ralph McQuarrie, Dennis Muren, Ken Ralston, and Frank Oz, from commentary tracks on The Empire Strikes Back, laser disk edition, 1995.
Anthony Daniels, Lawrence Kasdan, Alan Ladd Jr., and Tom Pollock, from Omnibus interviews, 1999.
Ben Burtt and George Lucas, unpublished interviews by Paul Scanlon in Lucasfilm Archives, 2002.
Bunny Alsup, Jane Bay, Patricia Blau, Jim Bloom, Ben Burtt, Chrissie England, Douglas Ferguson, Steve Gawley, Howie Hammerman, Joe Johnston, Howard Kazanjian, Jim Kessler, Laurel Ladevich, Ralph McQuarrie, Dennis Muren, Lorne Peterson, Howard Roffman, Steve Starkey, Richard Tong, and Lucy Wilson, interviewed by Pamela Glintenkamp for the Lucasfilm History Project, 2002–2003.
Stuart Freeborn, Mark Hamill, Howard Kazanjian, Irvin Kershner, Gary Kurtz, Alan Ladd Jr., George Lucas, Frank Oz, Norman Reynolds, and Charlie Weber, from Empire of Dreams documentary, 2004.
Charles Lippincott, unpublished interview by Peter Vilmur, July 2004.
Ben Burtt, Irvin Kershner, and George Lucas, from commentary on The Empire Strikes Back DVD, 2004.
Jon Berg, Jim Bloom, Ben Burtt, Selwyn Eddy III, Harrison Ellenshaw, Carrie Fisher, Howie Hammerman, Paul Huston, Irvin Kershner, Gary Kurtz, George Lucas, Ralph McQuarrie, Dennis Muren, and Robert Watts interviewed by J. W. Rinzler, 2009.
Fett and Slave I model reference shot.
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