The Magic of Sound

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I recorded audio clips of this scene on my tape recorder as a kid. Did you ever sit by the TV during a movies show or something, in the hope that something would come on - recorder at the ready? Perhaps it was the Academy awards. Anyway - they played a montage and I taped it. By God, I replayed that so many times. It was only about 15 seconds, but pure gold: from the actual film!

Solo: "Don't worry - she'll hold together"

Vader: "I'll take him myself (...) Stay in attack formation"

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I was convinced that it had a particular sound; an audio quality you didn't hear in other films or television shows. But just to hear their voices - particularly Vader's - was thrilling. Well, Ben Burtt did win the Academy Award in 1978 for sound editing didn't he?

I've said it before, but you have to remember that back in the late '70s, there was no BluRay, DVD, YouTube or even Video recorders (unless you were very well-off, or living in a council house). Kids would enthuse - or boast: "I saw it 6 times!" on its first release. Was this because their parents loved it too?

Radio

Incidentally, this scene in the radio series is fantastic. Solo even takes the trouble to explain the guns, their controls and display screen to Luke. Check out the Facebook page for the radio series if you like? And do you think George was thinking about computer games when they did this?

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