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Relive ‘Star Wars’ glory days in ‘Summer ’78’ short film
There’s nothing like summer to get a kid’s creativity running wild. School’s out, and there’s all that free time to create your own adventures with the official toy releases from your favorite film — plus whatever boxes and other items you can scrounge up to bring your vision to life.
Summer ’78, a new short film directed by J.C. Reifenberg and James Arnold Taylor, features a young boy, played by Hunter Leon, a host of the original Kenner Star Wars action figures and whole lot of imagination. And while there may be a “continuity error” (Kenner’s Millennium Falcon toy didn’t actually debut until 1979), it does capture the feeling of being a Star Wars fan in the late 1970s.
Watch the film below, and be sure to watch the whole thing to see the surprise ending:
3 Comments
dregj
September 19, 2015 at 11:40 am
this where we need doc brown to appear and tell him not to touch star trek
Tom K
September 19, 2015 at 4:02 pm
Holy cow…that was like watching a home movie from my own past!! That was really cool.
Sean Fewster
September 20, 2015 at 3:57 pm
I was yet to be born in the summer of ’78… I’d turn up a few months later… but I distinctly remember many a summer’s day in ’82 and ’83 spent the same way. Good, good memories. What a great little film!