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).