Young people today can't imagine the awe that seeing the space fights had on the audience I was 7 years old and still remember the x-wing battle fights and the Millennium Falcon going into hyperspace. Nothing like this had ever been seen before. It was an incredible experience and so lucky I lived back then to enjoy it. Ditto for the Indiana Jones movies.
@@sexobscura Oh, it did. Certainly in terms of model effects. I had grown up watching Gerry Anderson's TV shows which were like short feature films... but Star Wars was in another universe! In other ways, maybe not, but in terms of SFX it was an eye opening experience. Everyone and anyone who saw it at the time will agree.
I remember seeing this and thinking "Huh. This looks interesting." Went to see it in May 1977. When my friend suggested we go see it again, we found a line that went nearly around the block.
Great memory! Was in junior high, friend's nerdy older brother told us to go see this film since he had read up on it. Went to the first matinee showing, nearly empty theater. 3 days later you had to wait in line through at least 1 showing to make it in.
I remember seeing this as a child - my parents didn't want to take me, because they thought it might be too scary - plus I had a habit of insisting on seeing scary films and then making my folks take me home halfway when I got too scared lol - but I prevailed upon them again, and the rest, as they say, is history - but I like w this trailer that it doesn't include Williams' music - it captures the sense of how alien this new film seemed to ppl at the time; we really didn't know what kind of experience to expect
Still looks good today. The visuals were ahead of their time. Look at how dated most Sci-fi films from that period now look. Not to slag them off, of course.
I was 13 at the time, As I recall, they totally underestimated the popularity of the film and it was almost impossible to get to see it, in the UK, when it was first released at Christmas 1977. I forget if they extended the run or brought it back with great haste, but I eventually saw it early 1978. It was a mind blowing experience which I can still recall today. A classic. An epic. Never bettered.
I was 13 and in the 7th grade. My father took my younger brother and I to see it in the theater. Main topic at school at the time was how many times you’ve seen Star Wars!
I remember watching the trailer and thinking "This looks cool" but it took so long to come I forgot about it. Then on my eight birthday my dad took up to the movies. I didn't know were going to watch but I was summer in Phoenix and we have to wait for hours to see it. Still Love this movie.
I don't even remember how old I was when I first saw SW. It wasn't even in the cinema; it was on TV some years after the whole trilogy was released (films took their time "moving" from the theatres to TV in my country back then). I still remember the anticipation after seeing the (broadcaster's) trailer. Why did this give me goosebumps for 2 min straight?
its crazy isnt it, but I kinda get it. Looking at the teaser trailer, Star Wars looked like nothing else that had ever been done. It was such a gamble, but its certainly one that paid off.
I never saw the trailer or even the teaser when I was a kid. One night my sister came home to visit and she took me to the movies. I was ok. What I didn't know was that I was about to see something awesome. I was like WTF when I was just a kid and everything was history. Back then there were no action figures no toys when it came to star wars. All I had when I was a kid was just a record of the music of star wars that I played non stop. I looked at the cover all time.
This was played at the Star Trek Minicon III about a month before the film's release. It was played over and over again and saying it generated interest would be an understatement.
I guess the John Williams score hadn't been finished yet when the ad aired. The music they do use sounds like it's from a horror movie with the same key just repeating itself over and over again.
I think the other thing that is going on here is that the studio didn't really understand Star Wars. Science fiction at the time was all strange and otherworldly, and they didn't realize that George was trying to make it feel real, emotional, and lived in. That's why George says it's more like a fairytale than science fiction. Star Wars also had a lighter tone than most science fiction of the time. From what I've heard, the bottom line is that Fox just didn't get it or understand what they had on their hands at that point. I think that's part of why it exploded at the box office after like the first week. Nobody really went in with high expectations, and then they were blown away by what they experienced. 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
@@Blumerang-v7f Well, Time Magazine's review asked what could a punk kid, has-been general, and a comedy team of robots do? Why plenty! Thus movie was just what people needed, a blockbuster that entertains. First, there was "The Exorcist," then "Jaws," and now "Star Wars." There was a joke about the Devil crying on a sidewalk. When asked why, he said he was displaced by a Shark. I guess later in 1977 the they were both crying on each other's shoulders lamenting how they were replaced by that trio cum wise-ass Pilot and his walking carpet and a Princess...or they joined the crowd and bought a pair of tickets...
The Loews Astor Plaza in NYC was THE place to see SW, as the theater had been upgraded to 70mm 6 track Dolby sound, superior to the standard 35mm and sound systems of other theaters.
I think the only people back then who didn't know this would be a massive hit were the people involved in making it. The rest of us, when we saw the trailers and all the ads, knew right away this was going to be special. There's a reason why the lines for Star Wars wrapped around the block when it opened (and for the rest of 1977 pretty much).
I remember seeing this in the theater a year before the movie released. After the movie that we watched (Whatever it was), we went to the local pharmacy where I found the book and bought it.
I remember seeing this trailer back in 1976 and thinking to myself, "Wow, this is cool. They took Winter from Vivaldi's Four Seasons Concertos, slowed it down maybe by a third, and needle dropped it into the trailer." I loved John Williams's music, but I was always struck by this imaginative use of Vivaldi and hoped it would be somewhere in the finished film. It really built up a sense of tension-it was perfect for the trailer.
By the way, Star Wars was booked for the Loews Astor Plaza in NYC for a month, where it would be replaced by the James Bond fim "The Spy Who Loved Me." Well, that never happened as SW ran continuously for a year, finally replaced by "Superman: the Movie."
Same here. I worked as an usher in a small twin cinema in Hollywood, Florida throughout the summer of 77. Went back to school for the winter and spring. Spent the summer of 78 in a Summer Theater program in Jekyll Island, Ga. Got my ushering job back when I returned in September. Star Wars was still playing and still selling tickets there Amazing. Talk about legs. Of course, that was before Home Video. Superman opened at Christmas of 78, but Star Wars (NO 'A New Hope' nonsense) was a cultural phenomenon. Annnnd... Disney killed it.
I was the target age for Star Wars when it first came out. I was already a sci fi fantasy movie fan by that point having seen Conquest and Battle for the Planet of the Apes as well as The Golden Voyage of Sinbad in the theater a couple years prior. Having also just seen Jaws, I was also a new fan of John Williams. I remember the very first image I ever saw of Star Wars back in 1977. It was a small b/w picture of the "stormtrooper on a giant lizard" at the bottom of a page of Scholastic News magazine. My first thought was "Cool. Kind of reminds me of Planet of the Apes" as it reminded me of the gorilla soldier on horseback. That was all I could compare it to then. I remember seeing the trailer in the theater. I'm just not sure if it was this trailer. Either way, I had to see this Star Wars movie and see it I did.
It was around 3:30 in the afternoon, KHOU TV, on a 13" black and white, while I was making my self an after school snack...this trailer stopped me dead in my tracks.
I was 10 when it finally arrived here (no simultaneous, worldwide launches back in 1977). The person that came out of the cinema that day was not the same that went in.
Yea, I remember. It was awesome trailer. Frankly most trailer in the 70s were pretty good. Pretty crappy today. First time was at the Century Theaters in San Jose. Great times.
richard dryfus telsl the tale that he say lucas in a bar in LA and he was depressed, He said he'd wanted to make an action film and he made a kids movie instead. So Dryfus said he'd buy him a drink to cheer him up "So i went and bought the future billionaire a drink"
I saw it on release in 1977. It was amazing and magical. The two next movies in the original trilogy was great too.after that it gone from mediocre to dissaster and they are still at it. LMAO 😂
"Teasers" aren't two minutes long. The word "short" is in their definition. Don't bother arguing against this. I would assign you a pre-emptive designation of "WRONG!"
A billion years in the making... and they haven't even scored it yet. By the speaker's reckoning, the total length of time making it is longer than age of the universe.🤔😛
Today, this looks fairly bland. Back in 1977 (not 1976), this stuff was very original and spectacular. There had been a few "modern" sci-fi movies that preceded it, but Star Wars was completely mind blowing. Think of an F-22 being introduced to Army Air Corps fighter pilots in 1943 during WW2.
To look at a star through a telescope is to look into the distant past. It has taken the light from that star years, decades, or even centuries to reach your eye. Everything you see is ancient history.
I can see why Fox was worried. What a lousy trailer! It looks like a fumble in a junkyard with bad effects and worse editing. Lucas was saved by Divine Intervention.
There wasn’t much in the way of romance in the first Star Wars movie. The only kiss was on the cheek. Not a great movie for teenage girls. 👧 -> 🥱 Did you like Princess Leia’s dresses?
John Williams was discovered 3 weeks later. Thank goodness.
Definitely not the same impact without Williams score
Actually I loved this music-a slowed-down Vivaldi Winter from The Four Seasons. Very imaginative, I thought, and suspenseful.
Wow this looks cool! Can't wait till summer.
I saw Star Wars in 77 and no matter the countless times I've watched since, I still enjoy a trailer.
Young people today can't imagine the awe that seeing the space fights had on the audience I was 7 years old and still remember the x-wing battle fights and the Millennium Falcon going into hyperspace. Nothing like this had ever been seen before. It was an incredible experience and so lucky I lived back then to enjoy it. Ditto for the Indiana Jones movies.
Hyperspace was it for me.
*Gimme a break. There were some really cool scenes, but it hardly 'revolutionised' filmmaking*
@@sexobscura If you'd do some research on the subject, you'd find out just how wrong your statement is.
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*Grinch Yoda taught me all that's worth knowing*
@@sexobscura Oh, it did. Certainly in terms of model effects. I had grown up watching Gerry Anderson's TV shows which were like short feature films... but Star Wars was in another universe! In other ways, maybe not, but in terms of SFX it was an eye opening experience. Everyone and anyone who saw it at the time will agree.
I remember seeing this and thinking "Huh. This looks interesting." Went to see it in May 1977. When my friend suggested we go see it again, we found a line that went nearly around the block.
Great memory! Was in junior high, friend's nerdy older brother told us to go see this film since he had read up on it. Went to the first matinee showing, nearly empty theater. 3 days later you had to wait in line through at least 1 showing to make it in.
The world had NO IDEA what was about to happen.
You can't ever imagine
I was 9. I couldn't believe what I was seeing.
Was 8. Same thing. Jaw dropped for the first time I think
I wasn’t even born yet😂 my mom was like 4
I was11 and ditto. My neighbour saw it before me and I hated him.
I was eight. This teaser did its job. My mind was blown and I could not wait to see the movie.
I was 7 And same!
Seems to have potential
I remember seeing this as a child - my parents didn't want to take me, because they thought it might be too scary - plus I had a habit of insisting on seeing scary films and then making my folks take me home halfway when I got too scared lol - but I prevailed upon them again, and the rest, as they say, is history - but I like w this trailer that it doesn't include Williams' music - it captures the sense of how alien this new film seemed to ppl at the time; we really didn't know what kind of experience to expect
For 1976, this was stunning, even without finished sound and effects.
Still looks good today. The visuals were ahead of their time. Look at how dated most Sci-fi films from that period now look. Not to slag them off, of course.
I was 13 at the time, As I recall, they totally underestimated the popularity of the film and it was almost impossible to get to see it, in the UK, when it was first released at Christmas 1977. I forget if they extended the run or brought it back with great haste, but I eventually saw it early 1978. It was a mind blowing experience which I can still recall today. A classic. An epic. Never bettered.
I was 6. This really brought back the excitement... there was nothing else like it in the 70's.
the 70s was a great decade for film. My favourite.
I was 13 and in the 7th grade. My father took my younger brother and I to see it in the theater. Main topic at school at the time was how many times you’ve seen Star Wars!
I remember watching the trailer and thinking "This looks cool" but it took so long to come I forgot about it. Then on my eight birthday my dad took up to the movies. I didn't know were going to watch but I was summer in Phoenix and we have to wait for hours to see it. Still Love this movie.
I don't even remember how old I was when I first saw SW. It wasn't even in the cinema; it was on TV some years after the whole trilogy was released (films took their time "moving" from the theatres to TV in my country back then). I still remember the anticipation after seeing the (broadcaster's) trailer.
Why did this give me goosebumps for 2 min straight?
To think the studio wasn't sure this movie would make back its investments..
Oh how wrong they were.
its crazy isnt it, but I kinda get it. Looking at the teaser trailer, Star Wars looked like nothing else that had ever been done. It was such a gamble, but its certainly one that paid off.
I never saw the trailer or even the teaser when I was a kid. One night my sister came home to visit and she took me to the movies. I was ok. What I didn't know was that I was about to see something awesome. I was like WTF when I was just a kid and everything was history. Back then there were no action figures no toys when it came to star wars. All I had when I was a kid was just a record of the music of star wars that I played non stop. I looked at the cover all time.
I remember the day I saw this trailer for the first time… I knew I would see the film again and again.
This was played at the Star Trek Minicon III about a month before the film's release. It was played over and over again and saying it generated interest would be an understatement.
was it straight away a 'oh this looks amazing; feeling, or was it more a 'what the heck is that' type feeling? (im guessing the former)
I guess the John Williams score hadn't been finished yet when the ad aired. The music they do use sounds like it's from a horror movie with the same key just repeating itself over and over again.
very true. apparently the score by John wasnt recorded until March 5, 8-12, 15 and 16, 1977 now thats impressive!
The music is from am opus by Vivaldi, I believe.
@@fredpagniello3267 ahhh i had heard the piece before. but i never knew more than that. Thanks Fred. May The Force Be With You
I think the other thing that is going on here is that the studio didn't really understand Star Wars. Science fiction at the time was all strange and otherworldly, and they didn't realize that George was trying to make it feel real, emotional, and lived in. That's why George says it's more like a fairytale than science fiction.
Star Wars also had a lighter tone than most science fiction of the time. From what I've heard, the bottom line is that Fox just didn't get it or understand what they had on their hands at that point. I think that's part of why it exploded at the box office after like the first week. Nobody really went in with high expectations, and then they were blown away by what they experienced. 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
@@Blumerang-v7f Well, Time Magazine's review asked what could a punk kid, has-been general, and a comedy team of robots do? Why plenty! Thus movie was just what people needed, a blockbuster that entertains. First, there was "The Exorcist," then "Jaws," and now "Star Wars." There was a joke about the Devil crying on a sidewalk. When asked why, he said he was displaced by a Shark. I guess later in 1977 the they were both crying on each other's shoulders lamenting how they were replaced by that trio cum wise-ass Pilot and his walking carpet and a Princess...or they joined the crowd and bought a pair of tickets...
saw this as a TV advert before the movie came out. Yes it did feel like an epic about to be unleashed
This was in the Star Wars empire of the dreams documentary in the original Star Wars dvd
When this movie came out at my local theater, it stayed for 9 solid months! Going to see it became a weekly thing to do.😊
The Loews Astor Plaza in NYC was THE place to see SW, as the theater had been upgraded to 70mm 6 track Dolby sound, superior to the standard 35mm and sound systems of other theaters.
Still miss that theater and it’s 65 foot screen. Last movie I saw there was LOTR Return of the King
I think the only people back then who didn't know this would be a massive hit were the people involved in making it. The rest of us, when we saw the trailers and all the ads, knew right away this was going to be special. There's a reason why the lines for Star Wars wrapped around the block when it opened (and for the rest of 1977 pretty much).
and yes, it was light years ahead of its time. and still is.
it sure was. even the theatrical versions look better today than a lot of films that come out today...its super impressive.
I was 17. After I first saw it, I went back to see it as much as I could.
I was mesmerized when I first saw this on TV
Luke's nerdy "hello" to R2 always makes me laugh.
The seeds of an iconic moment in history had been planted when this teaser debuted.
I remember seeing this in the theater a year before the movie released. After the movie that we watched (Whatever it was), we went to the local pharmacy where I found the book and bought it.
今でこそ「スター･ウォーズ」と言えば、あの「ジョン・ウィリアム」のスター･ウォーズのテーマ曲が有名ですが、そうじゃなかった頃の（世の中にあの音楽が浸透して，超有名になる前の）初期のスター･ウォーズの予告篇。
今はもう反対に、あの曲がかかっていないのが信じられないほど不自然なのが、とっても貴重で面白いです！
I remember seeing this trailer back in 1976 and thinking to myself, "Wow, this is cool. They took Winter from Vivaldi's Four Seasons Concertos, slowed it down maybe by a third, and needle dropped it into the trailer." I loved John Williams's music, but I was always struck by this imaginative use of Vivaldi and hoped it would be somewhere in the finished film. It really built up a sense of tension-it was perfect for the trailer.
It's awesome with the classical music
By the way, Star Wars was booked for the Loews Astor Plaza in NYC for a month, where it would be replaced by the James Bond fim "The Spy Who Loved Me." Well, that never happened as SW ran continuously for a year, finally replaced by "Superman: the Movie."
I do miss those days where films ran for ages! Now its a rush to the theatre in the opening week or two or its gone! Oh how times have changed.
Same here. I worked as an usher in a small twin cinema in Hollywood, Florida throughout the summer of 77. Went back to school for the winter and spring. Spent the summer of 78 in a Summer Theater program in Jekyll Island, Ga. Got my ushering job back when I returned in September. Star Wars was still playing and still selling tickets there Amazing. Talk about legs. Of course, that was before Home Video. Superman opened at Christmas of 78, but Star Wars (NO 'A New Hope' nonsense) was a cultural phenomenon. Annnnd... Disney killed it.
Without the music, this looks and sounds like a dark gritty thriller
I was the target age for Star Wars when it first came out. I was already a sci fi fantasy movie fan by that point having seen Conquest and Battle for the Planet of the Apes as well as The Golden Voyage of Sinbad in the theater a couple years prior. Having also just seen Jaws, I was also a new fan of John Williams.
I remember the very first image I ever saw of Star Wars back in 1977. It was a small b/w picture of the "stormtrooper on a giant lizard" at the bottom of a page of Scholastic News magazine. My first thought was "Cool. Kind of reminds me of Planet of the Apes" as it reminded me of the gorilla soldier on horseback. That was all I could compare it to then. I remember seeing the trailer in the theater. I'm just not sure if it was this trailer. Either way, I had to see this Star Wars movie and see it I did.
It was around 3:30 in the afternoon, KHOU TV, on a 13" black and white, while I was making my self an after school snack...this trailer stopped me dead in my tracks.
Beautiful 😁
Funny the things we remember 🤷♂️😎
… Adventure, Excitement, Friendship…Magical… Worldwide phenomenon… foresee it, the Force did ! ❤
It does look old now even though it's still good!
ohh how i long for something similar these days, the only stuff which comes close these days is anime, but i do miss good Hollywood movies so much.
I saw the movie 13 times that summer.
But ESB blew it out of the water. ROTJ, ok. I liked the prequels , even Jar Jar. Good backstory. But not the rest, except Rogue1.
I was 10 when it finally arrived here (no simultaneous, worldwide launches back in 1977). The person that came out of the cinema that day was not the same that went in.
Yea, I remember. It was awesome trailer. Frankly most trailer in the 70s were pretty good. Pretty crappy today. First time was at the Century Theaters in San Jose. Great times.
That’s cool. Thanks
Just missing one thing: John Williams.
That explosion at the end of the teaser wasnt necessary... it was awesome.
"The story of a boy and a girl and a universe." That's every movie.
The moment Luke ignited the lightsaber changed my life forever. Not kidding. ❤
The studio suits really had no idea, did they 😂
Today they just show you the whole movie and little to the imagination 😮
Wonder if this was based on the ( disaster ) original edit of the movie, or after it was properly edited to the final theatrical format?
It's so weird without the music
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Wow, without any of the iconic music.
yep., this trailer was done before John Williams recorded his iconic score.
The ending is a huge spoiler
"A spectacle light years ahead of it's time"
Yeah, and Disney couldn't recreate this lightning in a bottle after it's time
What was the music used in this one?
richard dryfus telsl the tale that he say lucas in a bar in LA and he was depressed, He said he'd wanted to make an action film and he made a kids movie instead. So Dryfus said he'd buy him a drink to cheer him up "So i went and bought the future billionaire a drink"
Imagine seeing this trailer and not knowing who anybody was, or pretty much what anything was, really.
This trailer is amazing and of a time less classic movie
Pass...
I wonder if it will be any good?
Maybe it'll break even. Doubt it.
I saw it on release in 1977. It was amazing and magical. The two next movies in the original trilogy was great too.after that it gone from mediocre to dissaster and they are still at it. LMAO 😂
The first lines were sampled by unkle
John Williams saved this movie.
"Teasers" aren't two minutes long. The word "short" is in their definition. Don't bother arguing against this. I would assign you a pre-emptive designation of "WRONG!"
I thought they stopped making lame ads in the 60s. This was 1976.
I heard George Lucas wasn't happy with it at first, until Frances Ford Coppola took him to the theater to see it from a movie-goers perspective.
A billion years in the making... and they haven't even scored it yet. By the speaker's reckoning, the total length of time making it is longer than age of the universe.🤔😛
Today, this looks fairly bland. Back in 1977 (not 1976), this stuff was very original and spectacular. There had been a few "modern" sci-fi movies that preceded it, but Star Wars was completely mind blowing. Think of an F-22 being introduced to Army Air Corps fighter pilots in 1943 during WW2.
This could be happing right now long ago in a galaxy far away?
To look at a star through a telescope is to look into the distant past. It has taken the light from that star years, decades, or even centuries to reach your eye. Everything you see is ancient history.
Without John Williams this would have been a B movie
Vivaldi ? Four Seasons ?
"Looks like just some cult movie, it'll probably flop"
They showed too much of the film in this teaser trailer.
Es cine 🚬
Cynical viewer in 1976: "That will be a dud when it comes out."
He he true.
"Romance"?
Yeah. Luke makes the move on his sister.
Spolier alert!
Without the John Williams score...it sucks. 🙂
I can see why Fox was worried. What a lousy trailer! It looks like a fumble in a junkyard with bad effects and worse editing. Lucas was saved by Divine Intervention.
Star Wars or Spaceballs?
I FELL ASLEEP IN THE THEATRE.
There wasn’t much in the way of romance in the first Star Wars movie. The only kiss was on the cheek. Not a great movie for teenage girls. 👧 -> 🥱
Did you like Princess Leia’s dresses?
I liked her buns.
Looks rubbish. I don't think it will come to anything.
I remember the when they said that no movie would earn as much as Jaws. Then Star Wars came out a couple years later.