Summary
Alan Arnold’s journal records the making of The Empire Strikes Back. Lucasfilm identifies Arnold as the production’s unit publicist and confirms that he kept notes and interviews for this book. The 1980 account offers a record made close to the work, rather than a later history of the same production.
Why read it Our view
Use this contemporary production journal to compare records made during a complex project with later accounts. It is useful for asking how teams capture decisions, interviews and working context while a project is still in progress.
Written about
- George LucasProduction-history subjectA journal of the production of Lucas’s film by its unit publicist. Distinct from Rinzler’s later making-of history. The cited Lucasfilm article also publishes Arnold’s separate press dispatches; those dispatches are not presented here as verified passages from the book.Source