At Lucasfilm present: This book could not have been completed without the invaluable help of those in Lucasfilm’s several archives. So tremendous thanks to: in the Research Library, Jo Donaldson, Carol Wing, and Robyn Stanley; in the Lucasfilm Archives, Laela French, Dinah Houghtaling, Claudia Kishler, and Erika Abad; in the Film Archives, Sterling Hedgpeth; and, last but far from least, a huge thanks to Image Archives—that is, Tina Mills, Matthew Azeveda, and, in particular, Michelle Jouan, who oversaw every last image and kept track of some maniacal picture-gathering from obscure places. Also many thanks to, in the chairman’s office, Jane Bay and Anne Merrifield; at Lucas Licensing, Howard Roffman and Amy Gary for overseeing the whole shebang; Sue Rostoni for taking on the extra editing while shepherding along the Expanded Universe, Troy Alders for his artistic acumen, and Leland Chee and Nancy Frisch; in the legal department, David Anderman, Jann Moorehead, Elaine Mederer, Chris Holm, and Sarah Garcia; and in the marketing department, Steve Sansweet for the key tip and Lynne Hale for the key assists; John Knoll at Industrial Light & Magic for his Special Edition special knowledge; David Nakabayashi at the ILM art library; and Lucy Wilson at George Lucas Books for providing pictures of life at Park Way way back when.
And to Rick McCallum, without whom this would never have happened.
At Lucasfilm past: Many and sincere thanks to Charles Lippincott, whose work three decades ago made this book possible—and for going beyond the call in reading the manuscript and contributing essential information; Ralph McQuarrie, for his great generosity and never-before-seen slides and reference material; Lorne Peterson, for an afternoon of tireless image identification and for letting us print a number of photographs from his private collection; Fred Roos, for remembering who was the alternate Han Solo and for sending some great pics; and Richard Tong, for digging up valuable preproduction financial information.
Do-gooders at large: Many, many thanks to Tom Hunter, who took time out to come up with incredibly important legal contracts and correspondence; Peter Jackson, for writing a fantastic foreword, and Matthew Dravitzki, for facilitating that process; Iain Morris, for his design expertise; and F. Warren Hellman, whose memories of life on the board of directors at Twentieth Century-Fox were a huge help.
At Tolleson Design: For putting together a beautiful book and making sense of the hundreds of images, thanks to Craig Clark, Holly Hudson, Charin Kidder, Said Osio, René Rosso, Boramee Seo, and Steve Tolleson.
At Ballantine: For making this happen and for understanding the point of this book, thanks to Keith Clayton, Erich Schoeneweiss, Scott Shannon, and Dave Stevenson.
And, of course, my heartfelt thanks to George Lucas, for what he did thirty years ago and for the help given during the last year.