Star Wars News Coverage 1977-1983

The ideal target audience, LMAO.

this benefit is for children, “retarded” children 😂

Good summary of the movie

Woke, Cultural-Marxism is the new "Empire"....masquerading with righteous terminology but tyrannical at its core!

Alan Ladd, Jr. looks like he doesn't know where he is or why he's there

Also I like how they completely missed the point of the Empire, Leia's character, and the plot of the movie ("no moral, no message" when literally the entire point of the series is to send a moral message to children)

Wait a minute, in the second one George Lewis has the story for George Lucas's movie? Wow.

The news throwing jabs at everything Star Wars related was ahead of it's time
It's more appropriate for the sequels
Not the original trilogy

The news report got it completely wrong. Han is the cowboy type yes but Luke is a traditional hero with a wise old Merlin mentor in Obi Wan Kenobi.

Wow that is one pretty reporter that Jane Pauley

Man, I was born in 2007, but seriously, look how it was back then.


“Pure Escapism”, people have forgotten about it, and now it’s all about “The Message”

“Retarded Children” Like in mentally impaired, not idiotic

“Ronald McDougall” Ironically, I’m having Burger King while typing this

Actually its a samurai movie set in space.
Star Wars was based on a 1958 Japanese film called The Hidden Fortress directed by Akira Kurosawa.

Had no idea it was Alad Ladd Jr.'s movie...

Crazy the reporter said there is no moral message but Yoda gives a lot of good moral messages in Empire Strikes Back while training Luke

Douglas Kiker with the biggest heel turn since Hulk Hogan at Bash at the Beach

Hope those "retarded children" had a good time. Jesus lol

"An elegant movie for a more civilized age”

- Obi-Wan Kenobi

Alan Ladd Jr. … looks a lot like Shane. I presume they were related.

I was in drivers training when Star Wars first came out. Back then we had only the occaisional James Bond movie to look forward to. No internet. Only broadcast network programming. VCRs werent even a thing for a few more years.

A franchise so good at the time that it received national news coverage.

Carrie fisher probably would t have liked that they called Leia a damsel in distress

They said "retarded children" lol

The guy in the beginning says Star Wars has no morals or message. Not sure I understand that statement. If he is talking about a political or current day message I would agree but it certainly had a moral message.

Hearing them pronounce Princess Leia as Princess Leah is like Pokémon being pronounced Pokeyman.

"It has no message" -wha?

(((pure escapism)) we could use a lot of that today instead of
this woke brainwashing bullshit they make these days

wow" no big special message", it was about the vietnam war you idiot, american ebing the nazi empire and nazi american killed 1 million innocent irawis and now God knows how many innocent palestinians, as the nazi americans get bought out by aipac and help the nazi jewish empire steal palestine.

This is amazing to watch thanks for posting 👍 There’s stuff about the money and studio I didn’t know

This report was very smart. Like a genre film essay. Lucas acknowledges his influence of westerns on star wars.

Revenge of the Jedi poster! 💡

Love the Nostalgia! Seeing the faces and hearing the voices of the news anchors with whom I grew up with. Thank you!

Oh hey I lived near that nuclear plant

Retarded children 😲

The two reasons Star Wars works so well.. the design and the music. Without either of those it would have been a massive disaster. But the design made it feel real, and the music tapped in emotionally. It became lightning in a bottle

Star Wars has no social message 😅

Excellent promotion by legacy media.

For retarded children.... ooh this report has not aged well

Count me among the weird

"No social message" my ass. Star Wars was always about the rise, the fall, and the resurgence of fascism. Leave it to the geriatric boomers responsible for the resurgence of fascism today to have always been completely and utterly oblivious to that message.

Of course they say that Star Wars has no morals, it has always been political and reflects what is happening in the country.