{"id":3637,"date":"2010-06-15T06:45:22","date_gmt":"2010-06-15T10:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/?p=3637"},"modified":"2010-06-15T00:03:37","modified_gmt":"2010-06-15T04:03:37","slug":"empire-strikes-back-pop-up-video-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2010\/06\/15\/empire-strikes-back-pop-up-video-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Empire Strikes Back &#8211; Pop-up Video Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back\" src=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/empirestrikesback.jpg\" alt=\"Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back\" width=\"340\" height=\"425\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Remember VH1&#8217;s Pop-Up Videos?\u00a0 Can you imagine a Pop-Up Video for <em>Empire Strikes Back<\/em>?\u00a0 Well, someone else did.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Building Empire<\/em> is an amazing fan-made film providing tons of behind the scenes facts about <em>Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0 For example, have you ever heard about the abandoned Wampa attack subplot in <em>Empire<\/em>?\u00a0 It&#8217;s covered in this film, including very rare photos.\u00a0 Here is the description from the YouTube page:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"text-align: justify;\"><p>In an ambitious effort to collect all material from <em>Star Wars : The Empire Strikes Back<\/em>, into one insightful project, author Jambe Davdar has presents &#8216;Building Empire&#8217;. The result of eight months hard work, this labor of love provides an extensive look at the making of Episode V.<\/p>\n<p>It incorporates many rare alternate takes, production audio, on-screen facts, cast and crew commentary, re-created scenes, storyboards and behind the scenes footage to give you the must-have companion to the second chapter in the original Star Wars Trilogy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The entire film has been uploaded to YouTube.\u00a0 Check out the first part below.\u00a0<a title=\"Building Empire on YouTube\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QbkvK8ggMbE&amp;feature=youtube_gdata\" target=\"_blank\"> Click here to be taken to YouTube where you can find the rest<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><code><object width=\"520\" height=\"417\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/QbkvK8ggMbE&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/code><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you enjoy this, he also produced <a title=\"Returning to Jedi on YouTube\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BdH12otbLFw\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Returning to Jedi<\/em><\/a> and is still working to complete <a title=\"Star Wars Begins on YouTube\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xNe7FEbdbLo\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Star Wars Begins<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">My thanks to the guys at <a title=\"TWO TRUE FREAKS\" href=\"http:\/\/twotruefreaks.libsyn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">TWO TRUE FREAKS<\/a> for directing me to this.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Tell the world about ONCE UPON A GEEK:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-3637\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2010\/06\/15\/empire-strikes-back-pop-up-video-style\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-3637\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2010\/06\/15\/empire-strikes-back-pop-up-video-style\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2010\/06\/15\/empire-strikes-back-pop-up-video-style\/?share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email this to a friend\"><span>Email<\/span><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#\" class=\"sharing-anchor sd-button share-more\"><span>More<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"sharing-hidden\"><div class=\"inner\" style=\"display: none;\"><ul><li class=\"share-reddit\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-reddit sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2010\/06\/15\/empire-strikes-back-pop-up-video-style\/?share=reddit\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Reddit\"><span>Reddit<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-linkedin\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-linkedin-3637\" class=\"share-linkedin sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2010\/06\/15\/empire-strikes-back-pop-up-video-style\/?share=linkedin\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on LinkedIn\"><span>LinkedIn<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember VH1&#8217;s Pop-Up Videos?\u00a0 Can you imagine a Pop-Up Video for Empire Strikes Back?\u00a0 Well, someone else did. 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