Synopsis:

“The Story of The Empire Strikes Back” was an audio LP following the adventures of Luke Skywalker during TESB. Now this recording has been visualized using movie scenes and images. Spectacular!

Intentions:

In 1980, millions of people all over the world flocked to movie theaters to experience the most eagerly anticipated sequel of all time, The Empire Strikes Back. With the first home video release of Empire still 4 years away, fans yearning to relive the film at home were able to spin their turntables and listen to the vinyl LP record “The Adventures of Luke Skywalker”. This album followed in the footsteps of its predecessor, “The Story of Star Wars”, by combining the original actors’ dialogue, sound effects, and John Williams’ musical score into a wonderfully edited and condensed version of the film. Veteran TV actor Malachi Throne completed the album with excellent narration. Listeners were able to use their imaginations and follow along with the album while viewing assorted pictures from the film on the inside of the album cover. Syncing the album’s audio with a variety of video sources, this DVD brings those album cover pictures to life and gives viewers yet another way to enjoy the finest film in the Star Wars trilogy….

Change List:

This project took 9 months to create on a 2003 1GHz G4 iMac with OS X 10.4 Tiger and 768M RAM. Tools used (Mac OS X unless otherwise noted): MacTheRipper MPEG Streamclip Final Cut Pro DVD Studio Pro Still Life A.Pack LiveType Compressor Photoshop Illustrator MovieCal Peak Handbrake Apple DVD Player Apple TextEdit Apple Dictionary Apple Grab After Effects (windows) NFO Creator (windows) Quick SFV (windows).

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Special Thanks:

I would like to thank everyone who has knowingly or unknowingly helped with this or past projects: Scotty Balls, Rebel_1138, Coov, russs15, Galactus, Jambe Davdar, Sluggo, digitalfreaknyc, bigbaddaddyvader, SKot, Laserman, Rikter, EditDroid team, and of course Jay, Zion, and Moth3r for running originaltrilogy.com. Sorry to anyone I may have forgotten.