20 Things You Somehow Missed In Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope
9. A Mirror Helped Achieve Those Speeder Wide Shots
With this picture being forged long before CGI was at a level where you could realistically blast a speeder across a desert for a convincing wide shot, it took a little bit of good ol' movie magic to capture Luke Skywalker whizzing across Tatooine in his chosen mode of transport.
In the end, a mirror was actually attached to the the side of the speeder which was moving across the sand on wheels. This reflected the terrain around it and gave off the illusion of the vehicle hovering across the desert.
And just to really protect the illusion he was creating on-screen, Lucas also whacked some vaseline on a camera lens filter to ever so slightly blur the base of the vehicle - a method that was ultimately nicknamed "the forcefield" by crew members.