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Star Wars: The Blueprints: Inside the Production Archives

J. W. Rinzler

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Summary

Rinzler collects original technical drawings made for the first six Star Wars films and explains their production context. In his account of the book’s research, he describes selecting drawings from the Lucasfilm archives and using details in the drawings as evidence for the text. The large format preserves details of the sets.

  • SourceJ. W. Rinzler — original fxguide interview on The Blueprints · Star Wars: The Blueprints section; Rinzler answers on archive selection, extracting information from drawings, technical detail, reproduction size and production designers. Covers the six original/prequel films; 20 October 2011.
  • SourceOriginal library MARC record — blueprints · Byte range 42761983–42763303; cached blueprints-original.mrc and blueprints-original-marc.txt; Columbia original MARC 245 complete subtitle, Rinzler; 020 ISBN 9781603801911; 260 Epic Ink, Bellevue, 2011; 300 336 pages; 500 limited to 5,000 copies; publisher-signed certificate.
  • SourceJ. W. Rinzler — author bibliography · 2011 book list: Star Wars: The Blueprints (Epic Ink, Deluxe Edition); trade edition (47North, 2013). This establishes reprint identity; later expanded Hidalgo edition not silently substituted.

Why read it Our view

Use the drawings and commentary to examine how design teams make an imagined setting buildable. The technical detail shows the work that sits between a concept and a usable set.

Written about

  • George LucasProduction-history subject
    This is a technical production history of Lucas’s six Star Wars films, based on Lucasfilm archive drawings. Lucas is not credited as its author.
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