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Very few people know this, but in the original "Star Wars" (nowadays called "Episode IV"), the scene in which one of the Death Star controllers moves a lever to fire the beam that destroys Alderaan was shot in a Los Angeles TV studio. The control board with the lever is a Grass Valley 4000 video switcher. Where I work, I installed and operate a Grass Valley 2200 video switcher, which is basically the same thing except with two mixer buses ("sets of buttons and levers") instead of three. I was messing around with my camera Sunday, and thought it would be fun to get a comparable shot as that from "Star Wars."

Description
Very few people know this, but in the original "Star Wars" (nowadays called "Episode IV"), the scene in which one of the Death Star controllers moves a lever to fire the beam that destroys Alderaan was shot in a Los Angeles TV studio. The control board with the lever is a Grass Valley 4000 video switcher. Where I work, I installed and operate a Grass Valley 2200 video switcher, which is basically the same thing except with two mixer buses ("sets of buttons and levers") instead of three. I was messing around with my camera Sunday, and thought it would be fun to get a comparable shot as that from "Star Wars."