>In Star Wars: A New Hope (1977), all the wide shots of Luke flying across Tatooine in his speeder were achieved by placing a mirror underneath a version of the prop with a motor and wheels.
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Dishonest filmmaking
Why didn't they just use cgi? dumbfricks.
no way that would work, the stuff reflected in the mirror would be moving the opposite direction its supposed to
based moron
>things in the mirror aren't backwards
Yes, but the problem is, your eyes invert images, so they have to film the scene upside down so it will come out right-side-up, so the mirrors will play the speeder scene in reverse to make it look like it's going forward.
>the stuff reflected in the mirror would be moving the opposite direction its supposed to
they put another mirror inside the camera to fix that, duh
pretty sure they just drove the thing backwards and then flipped the film upside down
now luke is going backwards while driving backwards
Great! Now he can prevent tragedy by forgetting that old pedo and his gay robots, and going back to his true best destiny - space farming
Like shit why'd we have to colonize the desert planet, so much farming to do with so many mouves to feed with so little land FRICK
GET FARMING LUKE, OR WE'RE ALL DEAD
if mirrors were real that is
>move to the left
>my reflection moves to the left
It's better just to not think about mirrors. They are some voodoo shit.
explain how it works without googling it
>uhhhm it's like a reflection of light and uuuhhhm
that's not an explanation
No, moron. You move to the left and your reflection moves to its right.
its right, but my left
wtf how does the mirror know
In the original production of the movie they added a smudge effect between the speeder and the ground, if you have the OG 1995 editions you can see the reddish blur hiding the wheels and mirrors.
Nah that's only in one shot - this one specifically. The rest of the time it's either a mirror or they've just shot it in a way that obscures the wheels/dolly
obviously they drove backwards and just reverse the footage
so?
>Movies arent LE REAL???
But when I do it to my van the cops pull me over and harrass me.
Aaand it was replaced by CG in the special editions. Chances are nobody above me in this thread has seen the original effect in action.
if you mean how it looked when I saw it at the Chinese Theater in 77 then yes, I saw it
I'm old and the version I grew up with has the slightly janky speeder effects.
Here it is.
If you're looking for it you can see it at the rear.
>first frame
>trees on tattoine
It's almost like the shot that in Death Valley during pick-ups or something.
It's still a pretty clever solution to a problem
>In Phantom Menace (1999) all of the shots of Jar Jar Binks don't actually feature a real Gungan. He was instead portrayed by a human, Ahmed Best, and then replaced in post using CGI.
What the hell my life is a lie
bullshit, how'd he use his tongue to eat that fruit then?
Bullshit. His face needs to be green
Diagusting
I always assumed it was something like this.
That's clever.
They'd probably be bouncing right out of that speeder.
Yea you're right.
I didn't think about that.
Thanks, anon.
Did you draw that? You are very talented :^)
And all this time I assumed they just airbrushed the tires out one frame at a time. Huh. Thanks OP.
The speeder wasn't actually floating?
I always thought it was a doll in a model being pulled on a fishing line and floating like a kite.
This is a lie though, why lie?
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Lionbros...
crude ms paint stick figure man looking elated and holding his chin
I assume they videotaped the lion just doing its thing and then put a celluloid of the logo over the lions face.
fake
And then putting jelly on the lens to smear it out.
I thought they smudged Vaseline on the camera lens to blur out the wheels?
Nah I Believe it's a real top secret hovercraft
It's actually a ground-effect craft. Only the shots of it stationary needed to be faked
that's some industrial light and magic