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Special Collections at Palm Beach Gardens LLRC: Oversize Collection

Graphic Novels, Comics, Manga, Games, DVDs, Anatomy Models, and more

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black and white cover of the book The Making of Star Wars with George Lucas and Mark Hamill on the cover

After the 1973 success of American Graffiti, filmmaker George Lucas made the fateful decision to pursue a longtime dream project: a space fantasy movie unlike any ever produced. Lucas envisioned a swashbuckling SF saga inspired by the Flash Gordon serials classic American westerns, the epic cinema of Japanese auteur Akira Kurosawa, and mythological heroes. Its original title: The Star Wars. The rest is history, and how it was made is a story as entertaining and exciting as the movie that has enthralled millions for thirty years–a story that has never been told as it was meant to be. Until now.

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