From: utzoo!decvax!cca!csin!cjh Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Title: Re The FORCE, or bad editing Article-I.D.: csin.236 Posted: Mon Jan 3 11:59:49 1983 Received: Tue Jan 4 02:06:08 1983 In response to your message of Wed Dec 29 08:47:08 1982: I seem to recall that that scene gave the people doing the filming great headaches. They tried putting dummies in for Obiwan just before Vader strikes him, but every time Vader hit the dummy with the light saber it (no kidding) burst into flames (now there's an effect: Obi Flambe!)! No kidding, eh? it certainly sounds like someone was kidding \you/; the light sabers were solid, room-temperature objects in two models (with and without "blade") with the high-energy effects added afterwards (sometimes in several stages).