The George Lucas Exhibition 1993 Japan Star Wars Props Production Art Book RARE

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The George Lucas Exhibition Book/Catalogue From a 1993 Exhibition held in Japan
This book is VERY RARE and they tend to sell very fast when available online
Includes models, props, costumes and production art from the Star Wars and Indiana Jones films
1993 Hata Stichting/Foundation
Softcover
208 pages
English and Japanese text
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In early 1992, long before the
Magic of Myth
exhibition,
Hata International
, a Japanese company which sponsored many traveling art exhibitions throughout Japan, approached
Lucasfilm
about organizing an exhibit.
Lucasfilm
quickly seized the opportunity to treat the Japanese people to a behind-the-scenes look at the imaginative world of George Lucas. In the exhibition, which ran from July 1993 till September 1994, tens of thousands of people saw first hand the puppets, figures, props, costumes, storyboards and artwork from all the previous
Lucasfilm
projects, including
Star Wars
, Indiana Jones,
Willow
,
American Graffiti
.
Several of the props, in order to be part of the exhibition, had to be restored because they had structural damage. Don Bies who was in charge of the restoration process explained the reasons, "The warehouse that originally housed the pieces was just that, a warehouse that had no insulation, no heat, no air conditioning. So, it went through extremes in temperature. That probably speeded up the decay in some things. Plus, this stuff gets beaten up while they’re shooting the films, and when they were done they just put it in the warehouse." Besides, when a film crew is on location in the middle of a shoot, in Hawaii, hustling to get one last take before it rains, or in Tunisia, enduring the desert heat, preserving model, props and costumes for prosperity is not a priority. Among the many props that went through refurbishing were the Imperial Speeder Bike, a miniature Land Speeder, C-3PO’s armor, the miniature mine cars and figures from
Temple of Doom
and the Ark of the Covenant from
Raiders
.