From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!cmcl2!tihor
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Title: Re: Re The FORCE, or bad editing - (nf)
Article-I.D.: cmcl2.26404
Posted: Tue Jan  4 00:12:02 1983
Received: Tue Jan  4 04:51:30 1983

#R:csin:-23600:cmcl2:9900002:000:477
cmcl2!tihor    Jan  3 17:50:00 1983

Interesting.  I remember someone at one of the "official" Star Wars sessions
at a wolrdcon a while back describing the light saber blade actually was a 
"rotating" cone in the working versions and that it spun at fairly high speed
producing most of the SOUND effects itself although there was some post
production work done on them.  If they were in fact rapidly rotating cones it
seems quite likely that they could cause a dummy to burst into flame through
friction effects.