What is Deleted Magic?
So, you think you know all there is to know about the Star Wars trilogy? Now, go behind the scenes to discover lost scenes and editing secrets ....
DISCLAIMER
By Garrett Gilchrist (orangecow.org).
Deleted Scenes. Alternate Footage. A look behind the scenes at the editing secrets of Star Wars.
"Deleted Magic" is a feature-length documentary about the deleted scenes of the Star Wars trilogy, and about how the movies we know and love were made and edited together. It is taken from information, sources and home videos officially released by Lucasfilm.
"It's great! What a terrific editing and collating job and such very good quality reproduction!" - Garrick Hagon, "Biggs Darklighter"
"Absolutely one of the best things to come out of fandom ever." - Skot Kirkwood, starwarscutscenes.com.
And I'm told that Clive Young's book Homemade Hollywood called it "The best documentary ever made on the making of Star Wars."
This project is not an official Lucasfilm project - it is an unofficial, not-for-profit research project, done in the spirit of fun by a Star Wars fan ... hopefully it will be both informative and entertaining.
The idea is to combine all sorts of alternate, deleted and making-of footage into a full-length film that gives a better view of how the masterpiece we know as Star Wars was edited together.
In addition to deleted scenes like the Biggs Darklighter material, you'll get a sense of the "Lost Cut"s of the films ... the longer edits that didn't have finished voices or effects. You may get a sense of how close the film, like so many films, came to being a disaster.
Whether you're a casual viewer or you're a hardcore Star Wars fan and you think you've seen it all, you'll find this film is full of surprises.
Iit is a non-profit film, available for free via the internet. I don't intend to infringe on Lucasfilm copyright ... but instead consider this a work of legitimate research into the deleted scenes of Star Wars ... which you might find entertaining.
The nature of the project is such that obviously we have to use clips copyrighted by Lucasfilm to put it together ... but I hope that Lucasfilm would see this the way they see fan websites about the deleted films. We show what we can to you, in the hope of gaining a greater understanding. No one is out to make money ... you're getting this for free. Enjoy it.
Updated on May 10, 2011 ... New information about the 2009 Revisited version of Deleted Magic is now included, as well as links to view the film on Youtube. With thanks as always to T-Bone.
This project would not have been possible without:
Mark Johnson
Much information, sound files, rough edits, information, ideas, photos,
video files, DVDs and general support
Lou Tambone
Much information, photos, promotion and hosting of the website
Shadowman
Opening crawl and opening shot CGI animation
Skot Kirkwood
Information, ideas, and video files, VH1 documentary DVD
Russell Wagus
Video files (Biggs scenes)
Ruben Ortiz
Sparkle in the Sky animation
Brad Newman
Rough edits and ideas
Rowland Wafford
Holiday Special and Making of videos, and many thanks for his creation
of the TR47 special features DVDs
Jordan Krug
VH1 special information
Thanks to:
TR47 and Wookiee Groomer for their DVDs
Pablo Hidalgo for the Wilhelm sequence
The people at the Orangecow.org Board
Jambe Davdar
Hollywoodlostandfound.com
The Star Wars cut scenes list
The people of originaltrilogy.com
The people of The Galactic Senate
The people of Theforce.net
The Jedi Bendu script site
Starwars.com
Dedicated with best wishes to
George Lucas
This is an unofficial fan site. It is not sponsored, licensed, or approved
by Lucasfilm Ltd. "Star Wars" is a registered trademark of Lucasfilm
Ltd. If you're looking for the Official Star Wars Website, head over to
http://www.starwars.com