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History of The Force Box:Without Heirloom Box seen here in the backgroundFour years before the first "Star Wars" movie was released, The Times signaled that the sci fi film was approaching our world. In a 1973 feature on director George Lucas, Judy Klemesrud wrote, "George is currently working on another science fiction screenplay, 'The Star Wars,' which he describes as a 'real gee whiz movie' in the Flash Gordon Buck Rogers tradition." The movie title was later shortened and when it opened in 1977, Times film critic