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The Grass Valley Switcher model 1600 board was used in Star Wars as a prop in the scene where the Death Star blows up the planet Tatooine.
Did you know the Death Star in the original STAR WARS used a Grass Valley Video Switcher as part of its control panel?
George Lucas needed to shoot footage of someone destroying Alderaan, in the original "Star Wars" film. Lucas came to the KCET lot to shoot some footage, and he asked our technical director, who happened to be Cal, to move the fader bar on our Grass Valley Switcher back and forth.
George Lucas needed to shoot footage of someone destroying Alderaan, in the original "Star Wars" film. Lucas came to the KCET lot to shoot some footage, and he asked our technical director, who happened to be Cal, to move the fader bar on our Grass Valley Switcher back and forth.
THX-1138, made by Lucas before Star Wars, actually uses this panel as a video switcher for a mass surveillance system.
I have a Grass Valley 1600 switcher...as is no power. Is it worth anything? Might be missing a few buttons.
This product has the famous GVG "T" handle which was used as a prop in the first Star Wars movie. When the Death Star fires on the planet you see an operator moving the GVG "T" handle on a model 1600 switcher to fire the weapon.
Neil and Chris talk about their set element for Flashback Friday: The Grass Valley 200 Switcher. The very same prop used on the set of Star Wars: A New Hope.
The controls that operated the Death Star's powerful superlaser were actually an ISI/Grass Valley Switcher used during the 1970's in facilities such as television stations. Shown below is one of these consoles, though the layout is slightly different than the one used in the film.
The 1977 film "Star Wars" features a Grass Valley Model 1600 Switcher as a control on the Death Star. Grass Valley was a subsidiary of Tek, acquired in 1974 and later sold in 1999.