How Star Wars was saved in the edit
Film & AnimationRocketJump Film School•33.1K Views
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A video essay exploring how Star Wars' editors recut and rearranged Star Wars: A New Hope to create the cinematic classic it became.\n\nCheck out more essays at http://youtube.com/rjfilmschool\n\nWritten by David Welch (@watsonwelch)\nNarrated and Edited by Joey Scoma (@joey2meals)\n\nReferences:\nDeleted Magic\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2r4Nffrc6Y\n\nDeleted Scenes\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f00IkrWvur4\n\nHarmy's Star Wars: Despecialized Edition\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHfLX_TMduY\n\nEmpire of Dreams\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw_VeZk_q0U\n\nMore awesome videos at RocketJump.com!\n\nRJ Store ➤ http://shop.rocketjump.com\nFollow RocketJump on Twitter ➤ http://bit.ly/RJtweet\nFollow RJFS on Twitter ➤ https://twitter.com/rjfilmschool\nJoin the discussion ➤ https://discuss.rocketjump.com/\n\nFor licensing and usage inquiries please email licensing@rocketjump.com
