jrb (12/17/82)
Just saw a special premiere in San Franciso on Wednesday. I thought it was very good. Go see it. I'm glad that I paid $20.00 to see it. Well worth $5.00. John R Blaker ...!fortune!wdl1!jrb
jrb (01/06/83)
I understand that because the film was too long, half an hour of explanatory material was cut from the beginning of the film. Unfortunately, this had the effect of destroying any point there may have been. There apparantly was a lot more about why the Skeksis and the Uru (Mystics) were the way they were. If anyone is interested, there is an excellent book "The World of the Dark Crystal" which gives a lot of background information as well as many of Brian Froud's paintings and sketches. John R Blaker (...!fortune!wdl1!jrb)
ables@utexas-11.arpa (06/08/83)
From: King Ables <ables@utexas-11.arpa> For whoever was curious to find out more about how they did some of the creatures in "Dark Crystal," there was a program on PBS some months ago called something like "The Making of Dark Crystal" which was quite interesting. It detailed many of the complex shots and methods used to make the puppets look lifelike. Actual construction of the puppets was not talked about a lot, as I recall, but to some degree. You might watch for it to be repeated (especially during pledge week(s) ). -king -------