From: utzoo!decvax!decwrl!sun!megatest!fortune!wdl1!jrb
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Title: Dark Crystal
Article-I.D.: wdl1.129
Posted: Thu Jan  6 09:36:13 1983
Received: Fri Jan  7 03:20:11 1983

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)