Sometimes, ya just get lucky. The planets align with the bright center of the universe and things just go your way for a day.
I'm a Star Wars poster collector -- Steve Sansweet and I wrote something on the subject a few years ago -- so when Lucasfilm Archive Supervisor Marc Wendt dropped me a line last week asking if I could help him sort out some of the posters stored at the Ranch, it didn't take long for me to jump through the phone and land smack dab in the middle of the pastoral hills north of San Francisco.
Arriving at the Licensing Archives at Big Rock Ranch, Marc tasked me with removing posters stored in tubes to document their numbers, condition, and location in a new set of cubbies installed on the first floor. That's a pic of me at right with a row of posters freshly liberated from their cardboard tubes. Many of these will eventually be flattened and stored in banks of horizontal flat files.
I managed to snap off a dozen pics of some of the more noteworthy posters I came across that day, which I've displayed below. These represent only a fraction of the overall collection, but it's a rare glimpse at some of the cool stuff we have documenting the history of the saga. Click on the images for some added info on each:
Don't miss the tour of the Licensing Archives we posted awhile back, which you can find here.
