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How they shot the Star Wars opening crawl

October 19th, 2010 link to (permalink)

For all these years I never really knew how they shot the text crawls that opened each Star Wars picture, but I never imagined it was something this low-tech: A camera hanging from a track, shooting a printout that's been gaffer-taped under some glass? Are you kidding me?

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