George Lucas first used moving pictures as storyboards for the Death Star assault sequence in Star Wars. Lucas cut together 16mm camera plane footage from World War II to develop the flow of the space battle sequence and to communicate to the effects team the speeds and some of the shot compositions he had in mind. The aerial combat between X-wings and TIE fighters was meant to recall historical dogfights of planes like Corsairs and Zeroes.
This use of "moving storyboards" demonstrated Lucas' vision that the space combat scenes of Star Wars would show audiences dramatically faster and more dynamic spaceship movement than cinema had ever realized before.
