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A few months ago, I finished reading a book called Droidmaker: George Lucas and the Digital Revolution.

In the book, it's explained that Lucasfilm would demo its proprietary EditDroid editing machines using footage from Return of the Jedi, specifically the Luke/Yoda scene on Dagobah. As a result, they always had the most attention at conventions or trade expos. That footage, approximately 30 minutes worth of it, has made its way online via this Facebook page. The Facebook page seems to be releasing bits of the footage at a time, though.

The footage is interesting for its alternate lines and a revealing look at how the scene was made. Thought this would be interesting to some of the die-hards around here.

I just saw this last night before I fell asleep! I see they also posted the Star Wars blooper reel from the digital version of Rinzler's The Making Of. Peter Cushing flubbing his lines!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgLl0_mqLtc

Great stuff, all around. Stormtroopers = the original Battle Droids

All 30 minutes of footage below:

[flash width=640 height=385]http://www.youtube.com/v/Kz56q4t6fek?fs=1[/flash]

It's amazing that something like this could have just been knocking around for so long, and then - boom - just appears on eBay one day, out of the blue.
Great to see more of Oz's performance with the puppet... I could watch hours of this kind of stuff.