Well… the title says it all. Here is the original Star Wars trailer. Wow… all I can say is that George Lucas has at least learned how to cut much better trailers today than he used to.
I just had to add this comment that Mr. Stay Puft made about the trailer because it’s 100% bang on. He said: “Makes you appreciate John Williams’s score all the more.” So true.
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lol…”a billion years in the making” yea thats classic….
peace….
That’s actually Orson Welles’ voice
‘somewhere in space, this may all be happening now’
obviously this is a bit contradictory with ‘A Long Time Ago…’ and I doubt Lucas had anything to do with cutting this trailer…
haha. were the light sabers always white?
‘The story of a boy, a girl and a universe . . .’
WHAT? ! ! !
I love this trailer. It cracks me up. On the one of the old laserdiscs they talk about this trailer for a bit and according to the laser disc the reason the trailer is so serious is because until star wars 70’s sci fi had been a rather sombre serious affair….pretty much since 2001 came out and the studio wanted to make it look like it was a serious film rather than the rollicking adventure it actually is. They didn;t believe there was a childrens audience for it..on the laser discs they do a side by side comparison of this trailer and then the trailer they bashed out once the film was a hit…completely different….williams score blaring…high adventure all the way…it is quite funny.
Wouldn’t Fox’s marketting have cut the trailer?
Yikes…
Yeah granted it looks cheesy now but think about in the late 70’s when NOTHING like this had been done before.
I think as a kid I would have loved this trailer.
Yeah it looks rather dead without the score.
I like that they didn’t give away the death star.
I actually quite like it.. its so low budget, shows how they never knew it was going to be such a big success. If only the recent 3 were made without the knowledge that they were going to be multi-million box office smashes regardless.
Makes you appreciate John Williams’s score all the more.