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The Empire Strikes Back - BTS Gallery
Behind the scenes stills from the production of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back.
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ILM animator Jon Berg moves an AT-AT model frame by frame for a stop-motion effect.
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Modelmakers Lorne Peterson and Ease Owyeung building Boba Fett's Slave I starship.
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Effects cameraman Ken Ralston manipulates a damaged TIE fighter model shot on blue screen by motion-controlled cameras.
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The interior of the Millennium Falcon cockpit.
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Makeup artist and designer Stuart Freeborn with the Yoda puppet. Freeborn based Yoda's face on one very familiar to him: his own.
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Director Irvin Kershner talks with Mark Hamill on-set in Finse, Norway, the shooting location for Hoth exterior scenes.
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Harrison Ford on the Echo Base hangar set.
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David Prowse as Darth Vader on the Cloud City reactor set.
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Harrison Ford behind the wheel...
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Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, and Billy Dee Williams in the cockpit of the Millennium Falcon, between takes.
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Irvin Kershner talks with Carrie Fisher, Anthony Daniels, and Mark Hamill.
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Mark Hamill and David Prowse rehearse for the duel between Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader.
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The all-white prototype Boba Fett armor, modeled by assistant editor Duwayne Dunham.
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Irvin Kershner and Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca) plan the Threepio-reactivation scene.
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Irvin Kershner shows how to properly ride a tauntaun.
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Readying to film Yoda's "fight" with R2-D2 over a stolen lamp.
The Empire Strikes Back - BTS Gallery
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