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Ten Years Ago Today: Rare Star Wars Photos Posted Online


 Today I decided to dive back into the archives of my first blog, the Monster Island News, to resurrect one of my classic and still very popular posts. Way back then someone on Imgur.com posted a collection of over a hundred rare photos from the original Star Wars movie series and I decided to share twenty of of them that I liked. I went back and checked and sadly the original collection of images no longer exist so this is all that remains of that archive.

Here is my original post:

A whole ton of rare "Star Wars" images have just been posted on the Imgur.com website. The images range from publicity images that were never used, screen grabs from scenes that never made it into the original trilogy, to candid behind the scenes shots. A New Hope, Empire and Jedi are all equally represented here although most of the shots seem to be of Carrie Fisher (Princess Leia) who, from these shots, looks like she took every available moment to lay down on the set.

A good deal of the photos have been published in magazines, online and even on trading cards but a few of them I have honestly never seen before.

I wish that I could give credit to whoever put together this great collection of photographs but no name was listed with the gallery.


I have posted 20 of my favorites here:




















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