{"id":2460,"date":"2019-09-16T09:20:04","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T09:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/?p=2460"},"modified":"2019-09-18T06:27:11","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T06:27:11","slug":"the-man-who-literally-build-star-wars-and-the-light-saber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/the-man-who-literally-build-star-wars-and-the-light-saber\/","title":{"rendered":"The Man who literally built Star Wars, and the Light Saber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tJLusA8OoJo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Man Who Literally Built &#8216;Star Wars&#8217;<br \/>\nSet decorator Roger Christian tells us what it was like making George Lucas&#8217;s dreams out of scrap metal in this esquire article.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esquire.com\/entertainment\/movies\/a28570\/star-wars-roger-christian\/\">https:\/\/www.esquire.com\/entertainment\/movies\/a28570\/star-wars-roger-christian\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>How an Antique Camera Flash Became the Most Iconic Star Wars Prop<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/petapixel.com\/2017\/02\/14\/antique-camera-flash-became-iconic-star-wars-prop\/\">https:\/\/petapixel.com\/2017\/02\/14\/antique-camera-flash-became-iconic-star-wars-prop\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/lightsaber_2.jpg\">Due in part to\u00a0Star Wars\u2018 minuscule budget, Christian had to scour antique dealers and thrift shops for prop ideas, and that shop in London is where he found a 1940s Graflex camera with a 3-cell flash gun attached. The flash gun, with only minor modifications, would become Luke\u2019s iconic lightsaber:<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/lightsaber_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2461\" src=\"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/lightsaber_2-1024x538.jpg\" alt=\"lightsaber_2\" width=\"848\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/lightsaber_2-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/lightsaber_2-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/lightsaber_2.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 848px) 100vw, 848px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">&nbsp; &nbsp; The Man Who Literally Built &#8216;Star Wars&#8217; Set decorator Roger Christian tells us what it was like making George Lucas&#8217;s dreams out of scrap metal in this esquire article. https:\/\/www.esquire.com\/entertainment\/movies\/a28570\/star-wars-roger-christian\/ &nbsp; How an Antique Camera Flash Became the Most Iconic Star Wars Prop https:\/\/petapixel.com\/2017\/02\/14\/antique-camera-flash-became-iconic-star-wars-prop\/ &nbsp; &nbsp; Due in part to\u00a0Star Wars\u2018 minuscule budget, Christian had to scour antique&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/the-man-who-literally-build-star-wars-and-the-light-saber\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,107,138,116,8,102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-film","category-george-lucas","category-making-of-star-wars","category-r2-d2","category-star-wars","category-lucasfilm","post_format-post-format-image","xfolkentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}