these clips paint a stark image of what humanity has lost.

Back before all the reporters screamed at the viewers and before it all became doom and gloom! Take me back there! Please!

Hearing the reporter say it's part of a 9-part series made me sad, considering the crap we got with the last three. Should've listened to the creator, Disney!

3:02 9 part series?

And yet they say Star Wars doesn't cater for modern audiences🙄🤦🏿‍♂️

And Disney thought it was a good idea to dismiss all those fans for the "modern audiences".

I missed the 80s, but grew up in the early 90s and loved the old theater experience.

Tickets going for $4.50 to $5. 😂😂😂

The 80s seemed amazing i am sad i didn't live through a time like this.

Tickets ranging from $4 to $5? Yes please

hm a very diverse bunch of people liking jedi and empire and everyone is absolutely loving it

love all the african americans loving vader, even back then, even if just a voice, even as the baddest dude in the galaxy, representation matters. Rest in Peace.

Star Wars sucks

0:05 I love how she’s got one of the shirts from the working title Revenge of the Jedi. Little things like that are always great to see.

Humanity was more united back then.

In 70mm Dolby surround sound no less.

0:05 Revenge Of The Jedi T-shirt

This is when Star Wars was for EVERYONE, not just Star Wars fans.

What the person said about George Lucas is why George should still be directing Star Wars, but alas, we can only dream

The force of the Jedi?!?!?!?!?!

Disney Lucasfilm: Star Wars fandom was never diverse before we came in, as back then only white dudes watch Star Wars! 1983: Hold my beer.

3:55 he had flex his upcoming vacation

Now all of us are getting AARP cards

Someone send this video to the people behind the Acolyte! Who say George Lucas vision wasn’t about diversity!

No woke bullsh*t Just pure Love and Passion

I was never alive during the 80s but boy I wish I was

Such diversity in the queue. No one worries about representation, just seeing a good film.

Nice to see a time before people just started at phone or a had a phone in their hand.

One thing they forgot about, is THX.

It's surreal that Star Wars fans in the 80s were normal people and not bizarrely aggressive weirdos

2:27 I feel bad for whoever had to sit directly behind this guy

4.50? Now it’s like $12 bucks

Who is the man in the dark suit, white shirt, red bow tie and colourful wig? My first thought was BILL NYE THE SCIENCE GUY but that can't be 'cuz he would have been about 26 or 27 in 1983 but that man in this clip can't be 26 or 27.

I don't know where Disney gets this idea that only "nerdy white guys like Star Wars" when you can clearly see there are a lot of blacks and females in the crowd, wanting to see the movie.

Strange today revisionism points to this movie being a creative failure. Everyone here loved it, a few calling it the best. I cannot disagree. 👍

I took a bus to the Roosevelt Field mall with a few friends to see this when we were in 6th grade. I remember how psyched we were to be going on our own, we were men! The best times, and the best friends!

A golden time that is gone forever, I’m glad I was a kid in those times

I saw this in old school 3d in 1983. Wild show for a kid.

Vintage nerds.

Black, brown, white, men and women, adults and children, full families and just individuals... All fans of the movie, all speaking like normal clear thinking people. Everyone dressed appropriately....what has happened since 1983?

The best years of my life how I miss it so.😢

Remember how we were told that Star Wars was a white boy thing and thus we had to accept subpar stories and characters for the sake of diversity?

I was there. Tickets were sold out for Wednesday. I waited until Saturday only to find out that was sold out also. I got up early the next Saturday and rode my bike to the mall. I waited from 9ish AM until 12 noon for the first showing that day. These teenagers kept cutting in line in front of me until an older gentleman behind me gave them a warning. At the time, it was the greatest movie experience ever for me since it was the first time I went to see a film by myself. Best $4.50 I've ever spent.

Before the far left and WOKISM DESTROYED THE NATION!!

The Jedi have returned so that 40 years later she could destroy them for good!

I see diversity. Diversity not shoved in everyone’s faces.

2:42 "It was a fantastic movie. But it was good'. WTF LOL

this is yet another evidence star wars never needed to be "changed for modern audiences" because it already appealed to everyone... now it appeals to no one other than twitter loonies lol

MuH TeDdY bEaR ArMy

This was back in the day when Star Wars was simply a trilogy of great sci-fi films. There wasn’t much for fans to complain about back then. No “expanded universe” of previously-written stories poorly adapted into Star Wars novels. No “special editions” to beef-up an Oscar winning trilogy with unnecessary special effects. No continuity bending prequels, no Disney… Yeah, this was back in a glorious age when “Star Wars” was just known as the prefect movie trilogy… just like “Back to the Future” is STILL known as today. They didn’t need a prequel to explain why Doc invented time travel, or how he became friends with Marty. They didn’t require a sequel to further the adventures of Doc Brown & family skipping through time & space in a flying steam engine. Oh, well. I’m just glad that I was alive back then. Back when “Star Wars” wasn’t excused as a “kids film”. Back when it appealed to everyone. Just look at the footage… men, women, black people, white people, and if any of those people were LGBTQ, it would be NONE OF OUR DAMNED BUSINESS. Oh, well. Like I said, I’m glad that my frame of mind includes a time when Luke Skywalker was brave, Darth Vader wasn’t orphan Ani, Han wasn’t an absentee father, Leia wasn’t a bratty child, and Boba Fett was a faceless mystery. RIP Star Wars 1977 - 1983.