Every second in Star Wars IV arranged by how bright it is

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You're looking at every single second in Star Wars IV: A New Hope arranged according to their luminosity by Jason Salavon. It reminds me of a really cool book that I got a couple weeks ago—Star Wars: Frames. We are giving a copy of the book away, plus an original sketch by Star Wars' artistic director Iain McCaig.

It's an amazing new low-cost hardcover print of the $3,000 limited-edition set that came out in 2011. This one is $150, but you can get it for $93 at Amazon.

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This edition is solid. Like the previous one, it contains two large-format books with a collection of 1,416 frames arranged in chronological order. The publishers say that George Lucas picked the frames from more the more than 1 million that make the entire saga.

One has the original movies and the other one contains the prequels (which you can conveniently discard or give away, as far as I am concerned.)

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Both are printed beautifully. They are huge. And heavy too. It's a pleasure to peruse its pages and explore every frame in detail. And they smell of the collectable cards that I glued to an album back when the original movie came out, in 1977.

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The publisher Abrams gave us a copy of the book, plus an original Yoda sketch by Star Wars artistic director Iain McCaig, which you can see below.

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We are giving them away to two lucky readers. You can win them by following Sploid—Gizmodo's spin-off for all things awesome—on Facebook. Post a screenshot showing that you joined here in the comments. We will pick the winner in the coming days.