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Celebration: Star Wars Celebration III
Date: Friday, April 22, 2005
Time: 9:30 am to 10:30 am
Stage / Room: White River Ballroom
Track: Collecting Track

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Participants

Guests & Hosts

P Pete Vilmur

Overview

Panel Overview

A collecting session on Star Wars posters and poster history. The panel covered major poster art and design background, including discussion of the original Star Wars logo and the visual construction of Episode III poster imagery.

Announcements

Panel Announcements

Vilmur said Susie Rice designed the original Star Wars logo under George Lucas’s direction to make it look “fascist,” and said the Padmé image on the Episode III poster came from a scene already cut from the film.