The Closest We Had To A Home Cinema Back In The 70s.
I picked this up the other week off Ebay, Kenner's Star Wars Give-A-Show Projector. I Love this item! I always wanted one of these. Before the days of video recorders and DVD players this was as close as we could get to watching the Star Wars movies in our bedroom.
It comes with 112 slides (some pictured below) on 16 strips which you manually feed through the slot on the front. Some of the slides are quite laughable. Just check out Luke's reaction and the "floosh" expression in one of the slides below. I've also created a video for you to enjoy some of the slides in "action."
Check out the Give-A-Show Blog at http://giveashow.blogspot.com for videos I've been creating from my collection -- and yes, Star Wars is there -- both the Kenner version and the very weird UK Chad Valley edition!
The Famous Indiana Jones Fly In Belloq's Mouth Scene. Did It Really Happen? I've always wondered if Paul Freeman unintentionally consumed a fly in this scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark ? It's the scene where Indiana Jones shouts down to Bellosh...I mean Belloq and threatens to blow up the ark. Did a fly go in his mouth? I remember watching this scene back in the early eighties and my ten year old mind thought he definitely had a snack while filming. I recall talking about 'flygate' in my school playground at the time and the general consensus with my friends was that Freeman definitely had a sneaky snack. Paul Freeman talks about the famous 'fly' scene in an interview with TheIndyExperience.com and settled 'flygate:' This is a bit of a dicey question so don’t get too upset. (Laughs) A movie’s always got bloopers in it, some have a lot, and some only have three or four. And the most remarkable blooper was right before the opening of th...
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Check out the Give-A-Show Blog at http://giveashow.blogspot.com for videos I've been creating from my collection -- and yes, Star Wars is there -- both the Kenner version and the very weird UK Chad Valley edition!
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