An audience was finally permitted to watch the first released version of #StarWars — nearly perfectly preserved and unfaded — that creator #GeorgeLucas famously suppressed from being publicly shown on a big screen for 47 years. The British Film Institute event was introduced by Lucasfilm boss Kathleen Kennedy, who joked that the screening was “not illegal.”⁠ ⁠ And the result? An attending film critic from The Telegraph who attended the screening last week admitted the unaltered original “looks terrible” by modern standards. Full breakdown, at link in bio.