In 2009, Slashdot ran a story about Star Wars Uncut, a crowd sourced fan creation where individuals sign up for 15 second clips from what is now known as Episode IV: A New Hope. At the time I was just tickled by the silliness of the whole concept. And It took years for them to put it together, but what they assembled was pretty amazing. It’s over 2 hours long, and it’s on Ye Old YouTube:
I can’t imagine another movie bringing together fans like this… and I won’t lie. It’s no masterpiece of cinema. But hundreds of individuals came together and each made their own 15 second block interpretation of Star Wars history. These hundreds of clips were painstakingly assembled together with impressive skill: the editor did a really good job of blending sound from one piece to another… The audio levels are constant, and intelligently mixed even when individual shots split over the boundary between adjacent blocks. Hundreds and hundreds of clips from around the world using countless different cameras both virtual and real. This was a serious undertaking of epic frivolity.