{"id":6725,"date":"2015-12-14T19:50:10","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T18:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/?p=6725"},"modified":"2015-12-18T09:31:30","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T08:31:30","slug":"star-wars-comes-to-imperial-1977","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/star-wars-comes-to-imperial-1977\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars comes to Imperial: 1977"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"249\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-6731\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/files\/2015\/12\/Mark-Hamill-3-300x249.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Hamill 3\" \/> 38 years ago on 15 December 1977 Mark Hamill visited Imperial College to promote the forthcoming release of a new film. That film was Star Wars. We were lucky to get him to visit the TV Studio (then in Electrical Engineering Building) as part of the publicity rounds to promote the film. I suspect we&#8217;d never get a look-in these days, but back then no one had heard of the film and they needed every drop of publicity. Coming to the studio for the STOIC interview was closely timed because we&#8217;d been informed that he was next going to the BBC TV Centre for a live appearance on Blue Peter (the Children&#8217;s TV Show). The photo on the left was taken in the studio at the time of the recording. He was talking to James Sinclair who also happened to be the STOIC chairman at the time.<\/p>\n<p>The day before the Mark Hamill recording we had also managed to get Gary Kurtz who was the producer for the first film and whose name seems to have almost disappeared when the film is mentioned these days.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" class=\"alignright wp-image-6760\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/files\/2015\/12\/Gary-Kurtz-1-300x236.jpg\" alt=\"Gary Kurtz 1\" \/> Sadly this interview is one of those programmes now frozen in time on the old Ampex A format one inch videotape which sadly we cannot now play without a machine and those are now rare. We were still a few years away from moving into colour so the Mark Hamill interview is in black and white. For copyright the film clips are removed.<\/p>\n<p>Because of the &#8220;Imperial Storm Troopers&#8221; and the fact that Mark Hamill was coming to Imperial College we bought him a T-Shirt. He proudly and immediately put on the Imperial College T-shirt and said he would wear it on Blue Peter, which he did a few hours later. He signed my autograph book \u201cGalactically Yours, Mark Hamill\u201d. Here then is the Imperial College connection to Star Wars from December 1977.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_Dj1ADC_Pco?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We made use of\u00a0 the initial studio recording right away, but it was not &#8216;edited&#8217; to neatly included the films clips until a later date. When you hear the reference by James to &#8216;earlier this year&#8217; he&#8217;s referring to the academic year, which starts in October.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Colin Grimshaw December 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>38 years ago on 15 December 1977 Mark Hamill visited Imperial College&#8230;he was the star of STAR WARS&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18461,53,80],"tags":[84,212,89],"class_list":["post-6725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college-history","category-events","category-people","tag-electrical-engineering","tag-stoic","tag-students"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Star Wars comes to Imperial: 1977 - 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