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From Star Wars to Jedi: The Making of a Saga is a 1983 documentary on the making of the original Star Wars trilogy. It was broadcasted on PBS on December 3, 1983.^[2]

Release and reception

The documentary was released on home video by 20th Century Fox in the mid 1980s and various times up to the 1990s (with the re-releases all under different cover artwork). It was also released on Laserdisc in Japan. As yet, there are no high-definition releases of the documentary and unlike its predecessors, The Making of Star Wars, SP FX: The Empire Strikes Back and Classic Creatures: Return of the Jedi, it was not included in the 2011 Star Wars Blu-ray boxset of all six films.

In 2014, the documentary was made available for free on the official Star Wars YouTube channel.^[3]

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Credits

By type

Uncredited cast

Uncredited crew

Special thanks

Cast

Mark Hamill - Narrator
George Lucas - Himself
Anthony Daniels - Himself as C-3PO
Harrison Ford - Himself
David Barclay - Himself / Jabba performer
Ben Burtt - Himself
Warwick Davis - Himself
Mike Edmonds - Himself / Jabba performer
Carrie Fisher - Herself
Stuart Freeborn - Himself
Joe Johnston - Himself
Howard G. Kazanjian - Himself
Irvin Kershner - Himself
Richard Marquand - Himself
Dennis Muren - Himself
Frank Oz - Himself / Yoda
Toby Philpott - Himself / Jabba performer
Tim Rose - Himself / Salacious Crumb
Phil Tippett - Himself
John Williams - Himself
Declan Mulholland - Jabba the Hutt (uncredited)

Crew

Richard Schickel - writer/producer
Sidney Ganis - executive producer
Miki Herman - associate producer
Howard G. Kazanjian - executive producer
Robert Charlton - cinematography
Duwayne Dunham - editor/additional photographer
Agamemnon Andrianos - sound recordist
Richard Burrow - sound editor
Teresa Eckton - sound editor
Nancy Jencks - assistant sound editor
Steve Klocksiem - assistant sound editor
Gary Summers - sound re-recording mixer
Terry Chostner - additional photographer
Rick Fichter - additional photographer
Robert Hill - camera assistant
Martin Hume - camera assistant
Randy Love - additional photographer
Mick Mason - additional photographer
Tomiko Russell - camera assistant
Joe Ward - camera assistant
Conrad Buff - assistant film editor
Jay Ignaszewski - assistant film editor
Suella Kennedy - assistant film editor
Steve Starkey - associate editor
John Williams - composer: theme "Star Wars"
Geoffrey de Valois - production assistant (uncredited)

Sources

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Notes and references

↑ Star Wars Year By Year: A Visual History, New Edition
↑ This Week! in Star Wars Moff Gideon Enters the Battlefield, The Child Gets a Name, and More! on the official Star Wars YouTube channel (backup link) (Posted on StarWars.com)
↑ From Star Wars to Jedi: The Making of a Saga (Part 1 of 9) on the official Star Wars YouTube channel (backup link) (Posted on StarWars.com)

External links

From Star Wars to Jedi: Making a Saga in the StarWars.com Cargo Bay (original site is defunct)
From Star Wars to Jedi: The Making of a Saga on Wikipedia
From Star Wars to Jedi: The Making of a Saga at the Internet Movie Database