Watch 11-Year-Old Warwick Davis In The Rare Star Wars Short, Return Of The Ewok

From giantfreakinrobot, Apparently back in 1982 Return of the Jedi first assistant director David Tomblin produced a short mockumentary entitled, well, Return of the Ewok. The short stars 11-year-old Warwick Davis playing himself in a fictionalized account of how he was cast to play the Ewok Wicket in Jedi. That’s right: Tomblin and Davis beat HBO’s Life’s Too Short to the concept by a good three decades.

The flick was recorded during the making of Return of the Jedi and features appearances by Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carie Fisher, and more, winding between the real world where they’re making a movie and the fictional world of the movie they’re making. It’s kind of trippy, man.

The original 16mm print of Return of the Ewok has been lost, but bootleg copies have leaked out over the years, and at least one recording has made it to YouTube. It appears to have been surreptitiously recorded during a screening at a convention, so the sound and video quality is pretty bad. Still, it’s a fascinating chance to see a bit of Star Wars history I didn’t even know existed.