Star Wars Minute 73: A Lot of Cameras

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Date

September 11th, 2013.

Luke, Chewie and Han shoot their way onto the prison level.

Starts with Chewie breaking free and going berserk as the escape attempt starts in earnest and ends with Han answering a call on the intercom at the control station.

This is a crazy battle; it is mostly an editing job and not much of a shoot-out. Although all four human Imperial Officers are killed by our heroes.
Harrison Ford is actually wearing the Stormtrooper costume.
George Lucas did cringe about people being killed in this scene and it was further edited in future editions of the movie.
There is a brief camera shot of one of the Imperial Officers (Shann Childsen) being on fire after being hit in the torso area. Other potential deleted scenes are also discussed.
One of the Imperial Officers has his hand behind his back as he shoots - very proper like. Although he did just leave his gun lying around on the control panel.
Two of the Imperial Officers that are killed in this scene were also present in the earlier scene in which Leia was tortured by Darth Vader.
Is the console beeping in response to the commotion going on in the control room? Or the video cameras and screens being knocked out of action? Or something else?
There are a lot of cameras in the control room and we see each and everyone of them getting shot up.
The number of cameras reflects the Emperor's zero tolerance approach on criminals; he wanted to make sure that the officers were following the strict rules with the prisoners.
Or perhaps a lot of cameras are required to make holographic projections work.

Start at 8:38.

12:46 podcast episode length.
Cold-open: 8-DAY-GREEDO caller asks a) why are there so many different styles of cameras in the detention area control room and b) why do they have so many cameras in such a small room anyway?
Jackie repeats her greeting as Alex steps on the first one.

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