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The First Star Wars Documentary: The Making of Star Wars (1977)

Skytalkers

Charlotte Errity & Caitlin Plesher

Tv & Film, After Shows, Film Reviews

4.7623 Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

This week we are taking you back to 1977 with the very first documentary and behind the scenes look at Star Wars, “The Making of Star Wars”! Tune in to hear us discuss:  The history and background of this documentary.  How was George Lucas talking about the Force in the months after Star Wars came out?  As a behind the scenes documentary, how does it hold up today?  What were the cast focusing on in their interviews from this time period?  …and much much more!  Watch the documentary on YouTube here. Try Nello and the Supercalm supplement we always have on the go at ⁠drinknello.com⁠ with the code SKYTALKERS10 Join our Patreon community and unlock bonus episodes + more! Our website! Follow us on Twitter/X @skytalkerspod Follow us on TikTok @skytalkers Follow us on Facebook Follow us on Instagram @skytalkerspodcast Follow Charlotte on Twitter/X @crerrity Follow Caitlin on Twitter/X @caitlinplesher Email us! hello@skytalkers.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're listening to a 58 Ember production.

0:16.5

Welcome to Sky Talkers. Here are your hosts, Charlotte and Caitlin. Hello and welcome to Sky Talkers. Here are your host, Charlotte and Caitlin.

0:22.9

Hello and welcome to Sky Talkers. I'm your host Charlotte.

0:25.7

Hey, everyone. I'm your other host, Caitlin. And welcome to this week's episode where we're talking all about the first Star Wars documentary, the making of Star Wars from 1977.

0:36.4

I'm excited. I'm really excited to be talking about this documentary that

0:40.1

I swear I've seen before, but it's fun to return to in this intentional way. I don't know if I've

0:47.1

ever watched it or watched it in totality. Obviously, a lot of the clips in it I recognize and even

0:52.9

some of the behind the scenes clips I recognize from other documentaries. But when I was watching it, I was thinking,

0:58.6

have I, have I seen this before? Or am I remembering this from another place?

1:04.8

The interviews are it for me, the cast. Which we'll get to, but those felt very new to me.

1:11.2

So I'm excited to talk about them.

1:13.4

But I just know that this one hour special has way more footage that has appeared in other documentaries

1:23.4

and also is definitely on the cutting room floor that Lucasfilm owns that I want to see it all.

1:29.0

So release all of the footage from this one hour documentary.

1:32.3

Well, maybe not because this was, this aired on ABC.

1:36.4

So maybe they have all the, all the archival.

1:39.1

I don't know the legalities around that.

1:41.0

I don't know either.

1:42.0

I mean, obviously there's the stuff that was shot on set.

1:52.3

Yeah, but I mean, yeah, okay. That's a lot of interconnectedness. I'm not prepared to think through.

2:01.0

Anyway, I feel like the reason why we really wanted to dive into this first Star Wars documentaries, first off, obviously Caitlin and I love behind the scene stuff. Second, this is the first one. It feels like a really good place to,

2:06.2

I don't know, dive in. And it's just interesting that this is the first documentary for Star Wars

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