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...climactic battle sequence, which includes dogfights in space and missile runs on the Death Star, Lucas gathered all the old war movies he could find and spliced together their aerial-combat footage. "We did all that to get an idea of how to set up this scene," he explains. "It was all very complicated, with the most complicated sound problems, mixing and special effects." The dashing ten-minute sequence took eight weeks to edit (normally 105 minutes of a Lucas film can be edited in that time...
...Marc Bloch founded a scholarly review in Paris called the Annales (Annals). Its tone was combative, its fervor evangelical. Its purpose: to debunk the chronicling of politics and biographies of great men that had obsessed historians since the 19th century. Let there be new approaches, Febvre exhorted, ranging from aerial photography to the study of climates...
Another blessing is Doug Slocombe's quick eye for creating atmosphere with his roving camera. In a single shot, he shows the bustle of inner city Philadelphia, then contrasts the street with an aerial view of the majestic abbey. His close-ups of the stained-glass windows in the abbey's chapel are particularly delicate. And his lens remains clean throughout; the scandal unfolds crisply through film, without the usual smokey scenes of conspiracy...
...driving layups by Ellen Hart and the Fulton aerial spectacular destroyed SMU, and as the game's end drew near, the blue and gold players were ready to roll over and play dead, having fallen completely out of touch with the game's pace...
...warplanes are there: the Fokker, Spad XVI (Billy Mitchell's own), P-40E, B26, Spitfire, German Messerschmitt and Italian Macchi MC-202. So is the old workhorse of World War II-and beyond-the DC-3. Said one former combat pilot, standing before a full-scale diorama of aerial combat with a B-17 under attack: "It's so real that you want to duck the chin gunner. Wait'll the kids see this." Another veteran who flew over Europe said wistfully as he viewed the empty aircraft: "I see faces. The faces of those who didn...