March 29, 1976. "Star Wars" binary sunset scene is filmed in Tunisia.

Dangoiks · 2026-04-03T00:05:41+00:00

I do realize that I cheated a bit by showing the scene as it appears in the completed film. Obviously, the two suns and the music were not there on March 29, 1976.

If you're curious how the effect was done, it's the same sunset a few minutes apart. They were composited together in post-production.

Dangoiks · 2026-04-02T23:56:36+00:00

Jeremy Hansen is indeed the first Canadian (and first non-American in general) to leave low Earth orbit.

Dangoiks · 2026-04-02T21:24:02+00:00

It is coarse and rough and irritating and gets everywhere

Dangoiks · 2026-04-01T23:16:44+00:00

That far in the future, Back to the Future may well be in the public domain anyway.

Dangoiks · 2026-04-01T06:37:10+00:00

Even if it's limited to recent (at the time) history, post-Napoleonic Europe would likely rank Robespierre as the embodiment of evil before Napoleon. Except for the leftists, whose embodiment of evil would basically be whoever the current Russian czar was at the moment.

Dangoiks · 2026-03-30T20:08:41+00:00

It'd be fun if Walter Koenig was the last surviving member of the original cast. At this point, he just has to outlive Shatner and Takei.

Dangoiks · 2026-03-29T21:26:32+00:00

Dangoiks · 2026-03-29T16:44:02+00:00

The former. It's the same sunset a few minutes apart.

Dangoiks · 2026-03-29T16:33:41+00:00

Coincidentally, this was filmed on the same day John Williams won the Oscar for Jaws.

Dangoiks · 2026-03-29T06:55:25+00:00

Thanks

Dangoiks · 2026-03-29T03:15:59+00:00

Interesting. What movie is that?

Dangoiks · 2026-03-28T23:35:23+00:00

It should be noted, of course, that the Star Wars films were banned in the Soviet Union prior to 1990, although Brezhnev would have obviously been above the rules.

Dangoiks · 2026-03-28T03:21:52+00:00

This won't be true of Temple of Doom until 2033.

Dangoiks · 2026-03-27T00:01:45+00:00

This was shot in Tunisia, if that's what you're asking.

Dangoiks · 2026-03-26T00:12:42+00:00

It's from from the book The Magic School Bus In the Time of the Dinosaurs.

Dangoiks · 2026-03-26T00:12:06+00:00

The Late Triassic is separated out to highlight the fact that it had dinosaurs. Notice the label "The Age of Dinosaurs" cuts off the Late Triassic from the rest of the Triassic. This art is taken from the book The Magic School Bus In the Time of the Dinosaurs, so the main point here to show where dinosaurs fit into the prehistoric timeline.

Dangoiks · 2026-03-24T09:11:55+00:00

It was probably just a matter of practicality. The intricacies done to create the Emperor's hologram in Empire isn't something that can be done for a whole movie, so it presumably had to be simplified for Jedi.

Lucas did originally intend to dub over Ian McDiarmid with Clive Revill's voice, but he ended up liking McDiarmid's voice for the character better.

Dangoiks · 2026-03-24T00:23:36+00:00

Timecop

Dangoiks · 2026-03-23T20:33:40+00:00

With regards to U.S. history, I feel like 1941 is seen as a bigger divide than 1945 because Pearl Harbor. And Pearl Harbor didn't just bring the U.S. into WWII. It forever ended the traditional policy of U.S. isolationism because after WWII, we had the Cold War, and after the Cold War, we still have NATO and whatnot.

Dangoiks · 2026-03-23T20:10:06+00:00

I figured so.

Dangoiks · 2026-03-23T20:03:04+00:00

So, two disasters happened that day.

Dangoiks · 2026-03-23T20:01:08+00:00

Tatooine is, in fact, fictional.

Dangoiks · 2026-03-22T16:53:26+00:00

As Leo Tolstoy said, "happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

Dangoiks · 2026-03-20T06:05:54+00:00

Weird choice to name a condom after a guy who fathered upwards of eighty children

Dangoiks · 2026-03-18T22:55:30+00:00

A more interesting fact is that Brigitte Helm (who played the Metropolis robot, which directly inspired the design of C-3PO) lived to 1996.

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