It was thirty years ago today...

[tzikeh]

Star Wars premiered. I was at the Essex Green movie theater with my mom and dad.

Essex Green was a General Cinema theater, which I think are gone now, but if this looks familiar, you've been to one:

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And hey, here's the original Star Wars trailer (I can't believe that I actually remember seeing this; I don't remember what movie I saw it before...)

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(Today is also my mom's birthday. Guess what my dad had thought would be a great present for him her thirty years ago?)

I believe I officially qualify as "old" now.

ETA:

The original New York Times review of the film (no registration necessary for this).

Star Wars, in 30 seconds, re-enacted by bunnies.

Comments

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

Man, these days, would they ever run a trailer that long before they'd finished the score and the graphics? (If at all? -- or maybe it just felt long because the pace of the cuts is so much more sedate than today's trailers.)

[reginagiraffe]

Wow, have times changed. If that preview had played today, it would have been BOMBED as being mind-numbingly boring. That background music made me want to take my own life.

[ratcreature]

Heh. My thoughts exactly. I was surprised how slow-moving the trailer was-

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

Ah, the GC intro!!! How I loved that silly thing. We ditched school and went to the first showing, then stayed through all three subsequent ones. I still have the button I got in the lobby and was thinking of selling it on ebay, but everyone's trying to talk me out of it.

Anyways, not that you care, but I am down and thinking about this makes me happier, my ex helped me make a mix tape many years ago for a friend of mine who was moving cross-country. My friend adored that intro as much as I did, and so to start the driving tunes tape off, Ex got out his Casio keyboard and did the whole thing, just without, you know, the visuals. My friend just about died when he put the tape in, somewhere along the way in Idaho. Who would ever have thought back then that something like YouTube would exist where we could relive those experiences?