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This (sometimes unintentionally) amusing "making-of" video from the 1970s shows FX guy Larry Cuba explaining how he made the computer graphics for 1977's original Star Wars.

We know it's not Friday yet and this thing's a full 10 minutes long, so we'd recommend letting it load up, then scanning through it until you hit the CAD footage that will look familiar, yet hilariously primitive, to your Maya- and Studio-3D-Max-rendering self. (You can also skip the first 1:00, which seems to be the most boring full minute of footage from the original movie.)

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