Star Wars: 35-year anniversary May 25

[phase pistol]

35 years since those trumpets blared, the giant wedge shaped spaceship flew over your head, and you knew you were in for a wild ride!

And of course, here is my predictable infographic timeline for the event.

Newsarama.com : STAR WARS 35th Anniversary: Timeline (Infographic)

 

[jonny5]

You left out the date when teh Sheperton Studios lawsuit was dismissed.

And the Star Wars cast appearing on the Muppet show re: Link to Yoda

 

[phase pistol]

I left out lots of dates! :lol

 

[darth_myeek]

And the mass lawsuit about our collective childhood thingy in 1999.


Nice work Karl!

Mike

 

[phase pistol]

Aw man, I forgot "The People Vs George Lucas" too. :unsure

 

[phase pistol]

Probably hard core event based historians should look instead at the "Star Wars Year by Year" book that came out... that has tons more info than I was able to include in my graphic.

Amazon.com: Star Wars Year by Year: A Visual Chronicle (9780756657642): Ryder Windham, Daniel Wallace, Pablo Hidalgo: Books

 

[CessnaDriver]

And for you younger folks that weren't there or too little to have a memory of that day...

It really was all that.

Maybe there are some old newcast footage of people waiting in line from back then on the youtubes?

 

[SVTStingRay]

35th anniversary of Glee, Shock, Pain, Disapointment, and Self-Loathing. thx george. hope you finally die in a fire.

 

[jonny5]

If live to see the 35th anniversary of GLEE
I may have to reconsider my position on assisted suicide.

 

[superjedi]

Nice work, Karl!
I vividly remember seeing Star Wars on the big screen in '77. Ahh, youth. . .

 

[micdavis]

I saw it on May 24th.

But yeah. Happy 35th.

 

[DL 44 Blaster]

Yep, I was there in '77 to see it in it's initial run. I can still remember the day going with my Dad while my then 2 year old brother stayed with my Mom at my Grandparents house. The theater has been long closed, but the mall is still there. Youth indeed! And here I am 35 years later still indulging from the spark of that day. Cool )

 

[robn1]

I also saw it first run in '77. I saw a lot of great films in that theater, it's a billiard hall now :unsure

 

[Nwerke]

That can't be true. If that was true I'd be 45! I'd have a grey beard and everything. Oh wait.

 

[ringa]

May 25, 1977... "A day long remembered." My mom packed me, my brother and 2 of his friends, my sister, my best friend, even my grandmother into the family station wagon. The huge theater we saw it in doesn't exist anymore, but the screens were Imax size. It was only the second movie I'd ever seen on the big screen. Naturally it blew me away for life!

 

[Apollo]

I was there first day first show, even got interviewed on all the local news channels.

Time sure flies!

 

[Robiwon]

Yeah, but how old were you when you first saw Star Wars? I saw it opening day and was a whopping 10 years old. Definately that first scene has been burned into my brian. Good times!

 

[Apollo]

I was 16 and I don't care how old you were it is impossible for that first scene not to drop your jaw!

Yeah, but how old were you when you first saw Star Wars?