Some of you may remember my trip to Tikal a couple years back. Last week I was in Death Valley participating in one of our artists' workshops for the International Association of Astronomical Artists (IAAA). I spent much of my time when I wasn't with my artist colleagues hunting down the various sites where the original Tatooine/R2/jawas second unit shots were filmed in 1977. I've put together a short video comparing my images with the original footage:
StarWars_DeathValley_1977_2023.mp4
There were some things I got good shots of that I didn't put in here but you get the idea. Many others have done this kind of thing of course and all the sites are pretty well documented on the web. But it was a ton of fun hunting down these locations myself and in the process I gained some insights into the probable hows and whys of filming some of the things they did - things you can only internalize by actually being there...
Dan
StarWars_DeathValley_1977_2023.mp4
There were some things I got good shots of that I didn't put in here but you get the idea. Many others have done this kind of thing of course and all the sites are pretty well documented on the web. But it was a ton of fun hunting down these locations myself and in the process I gained some insights into the probable hows and whys of filming some of the things they did - things you can only internalize by actually being there...
Dan
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