The Force-Cast Part 6 From Celebration IV

Watch The Force-Cast behind the scenes at they record in front of a live audience in the Star Wars Fan Room at CIV.

Their very special guest is Don Bies from Lucasfilm Ltd. Don first job at ILM in 1987 was a puppeteer on The Witches of Eastwick. Later that year he joined Lucasfilm Ltd. as their official R2-D2 operator for a series of Japanese commercials. In 1988 Don became the second Lucasfilm Archivist and helped organize the first major exhibition of Lucasfilm memorabilia for the 1988 Marin County Fair. He worked on Ghostbusters II and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

In June of 1997, Don began work on Star Wars-Epeisode 1: The Phantom Menace and created the new C-3PO puppet. He also supervised the construction of an improved R2-D2.
Shot by Rebelscum Commando cameraman, Keith Shankland.

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[Beatlesfan1225]

awesome! keep up the good work... and you guys are right, billy dee is the man

[lantek7]

Check out the next part of Don's interview. "The Force-Cast Part 7 From Celebration IV"

[lantek7]

Don is a nice guy and has contributed quite a lot to the R2 builders club. Always a pleasure to listen to him talk about R2 and the process of making Star Wars.

[kriz1199]

when was this ??..and where at?... i wanna go to one of those events