ANH Obi Wan Kenobi saber defined

[marker2037]

I lean more towards the idea that the stamping is just very faint or totally missing. But if it it was masked I'd bet it was not done for the shots that later appeared in the chronicles. They don't look at all like promo shots but maybe made for continuity purposes that later were published because nothing else was available.

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Besides GRAFLEX is very visible on the clamp and even the markings on the transistors are to some extend, so what would be the purpose of covering just the wind vane for these shots.

Agreed regarding the markings. I think they never bothered to cover ANYTHING up for ANH. As far as those photos though, why would they need continuity photos if they all thought this was a one and done flop of a movie, unless they were taken mid-filming because they needed to reproduce the prop in a different filming location?

 

[v312]

I've read somewhere that these pictures were taken post production, but I'm not sure what's the source of this information. Obi's saber looks pretty beat up on them, so it is likely. I have no idea if it was a common practice in movie production back then to take such photos of the props and if so for what purpose. Maybe if they need to reshoot something later or make an insert shot like with the greedo killer.

 

[thd9791]

Same here, I don’t remember the source for that either.

I think if the screws and glue were a repair or later addition that would be an important part of this story. Or if that was initially how it was held together.

 

[Obi1Kenobi]

I lean more towards the idea that the stamping is just very faint or totally missing. But if it it was masked I'd bet it was not done for the shots that later appeared in the chronicles. They don't look at all like promo shots but maybe made for continuity purposes that later were published because nothing else was available.

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Besides GRAFLEX is very visible on the clamp and even the markings on the transistors are to some extend, so what would be the purpose of covering just the wind vane for these shots.

I’ve never seen this full set of photos before. So this is the source of the three Obi-Wan saber photos published in Chronicles? How long has this full set of photos been publicly known? Are they available in higher resolution? Who has the original negatives or prints now?

 

[v312]

I’ve never seen this full set of photos before. So this is the source of the three Obi-Wan saber photos published in Chronicles? How long has this full set of photos been publicly known? Are they available in higher resolution? Who has the original negatives or prints now?

Well, I can only tell you that I found it online when I was looking for references, and it was a while ago. I think it was some ebay listing. So I assume it's been publicly known for quite a while. But if you look closely, this is not even a scan of a print of the original contact sheet. Looks like someone took a picture of the original that was in an album, then probably that was printed, then another picture was taken of the print.

 

[Halliwax]

bumping this bad boy!