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Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back

unused footage: scenes 1 - 20


10 - EXT. PLAIN OF HOTH - SLOPE - DAY

click to enlarge 1 An alternate camera angle.

The WAMPA ICE MONSTER grabs Luke by one ankle and drags him away.



15 - INT. ICE CORRIDOR - REBEL BASE - HOTH

Han strides down a corridor carved from the ice. Leia follows quickly, agitated. Behind them, unnoticed, an appendage of a Wampa Ice Monster suddenly detaches from a seemingly solid section of ice wall.

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16 - EXT. ICE PLAIN OF HOTH - DAY

Track with the sinister, probe robot as it moves across the vast frozen wilderness. One of its extended sensors detects something and the robot stops, turns and heads off in another direction, at high speed.


17 - EXT. MOUND OF SNOW - ICE PLAIN - HOTH - DAY

The robot stops before a large mound of snow about twenty feet long and six feet high. It circles the mound, then shoots a thin laser bolt at the snow drift.


18 - CLOSE-UP MOUND OF SNOW

The mound shakes a little bit and two large eyes appear at one end, staring directly at the robot. A primeval BELLOW issues forth from the mound.


19 - EXT. MOUND OF SNOW - ICE PLAIN - HOTH - DAY

The robot backs off a few feet, then blasts the mound with a heavy laser bolt that disintegrates the snow-covered creature in a cloud of smoke and flame.


20 - EXT. ICE PLAIN - HOTH - DAY

The evil robot moves off toward the horizon.



Sources:
1 - SPFX: Special Effects - The Empire Strikes Back, television special.


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