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The Empire Strikes Back - BTS Gallery

Behind the scenes stills from the production of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back.

  • 16 Images
    • ILM animator Jon Berg moves an AT-AT model frame by frame for a stop-motion effect.
    • Modelmakers Lorne Peterson and Ease Owyeung building Boba Fett's Slave I starship.
    • Effects cameraman Ken Ralston manipulates a damaged TIE fighter model shot on blue screen by moti...
    • The interior of the Millennium Falcon cockpit.
    • Makeup artist and designer Stuart Freeborn with the Yoda puppet. Freeborn based Yoda's face on on...
    • Director Irvin Kershner talks with Mark Hamill on-set in Finse, Norway, the shooting location for...
    • Harrison Ford on the Echo Base hangar set.
    • David Prowse as Darth Vader on the Cloud City reactor set.
    • Harrison Ford behind the wheel...
    • Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, and Billy Dee Williams in the cockpit of the Millennium Falcon, betwe...
    • Irvin Kershner talks with Carrie Fisher, Anthony Daniels, and Mark Hamill.
    • Mark Hamill and David Prowse rehearse for the duel between Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader.
  • ILM animator Jon Berg moves an AT-AT model frame by frame for a stop-motion effect.

  • Modelmakers Lorne Peterson and Ease Owyeung building Boba Fett's Slave I starship.

  • Effects cameraman Ken Ralston manipulates a damaged TIE fighter model shot on blue screen by motion-controlled cameras.

  • The interior of the Millennium Falcon cockpit.

  • Makeup artist and designer Stuart Freeborn with the Yoda puppet. Freeborn based Yoda's face on one very familiar to him: his own.

  • Director Irvin Kershner talks with Mark Hamill on-set in Finse, Norway, the shooting location for Hoth exterior scenes.

  • Harrison Ford on the Echo Base hangar set.

  • David Prowse as Darth Vader on the Cloud City reactor set.

  • Harrison Ford behind the wheel...

  • Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, and Billy Dee Williams in the cockpit of the Millennium Falcon, between takes.

  • Irvin Kershner talks with Carrie Fisher, Anthony Daniels, and Mark Hamill.

  • Mark Hamill and David Prowse rehearse for the duel between Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader.

  • The all-white prototype Boba Fett armor, modeled by assistant editor Duwayne Dunham.

  • Irvin Kershner and Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca) plan the Threepio-reactivation scene.

  • Irvin Kershner shows how to properly ride a tauntaun.

  • Readying to film Yoda's "fight" with R2-D2 over a stolen lamp.

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The Empire Strikes Back - BTS Gallery

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