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I didn’t realize they shot multiple models at once. I had assumed they had one model that they shot multiple times and composited together. I suppose you save time this way, at the cost of making the shot a little trickier to make sure the support of the front X-Wing doesn’t obscure the ones behind it.
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Back then it was probably a lot easier to make more models, and the quality would be better with a single shot. Some of the original footage has blocky areas where the merging wasn’t perfect. Didn’t matter back then, it was far better than most anything else, but three model shots plus a background would have been ugly. Original Star Trek footage also has some of that.
Or to put it another way, we couldn’t have faked the Moon footage because the technology to fake it wasn’t created yet. It was easier to just build a big rocket and go.
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Well, the government hired Stanley Kubrik to fake the moon landing. Problem is, he was such a damn perfectionist that he demanded that they shoot on location.
