Michael Heilemann, an interface director at Squarespace, has undertaken a vast project to document the inspirations that fed into the original Star Wars film. The analysis, according to Heilemann, covers “everything from [George] Lucas’ earliest student films, European cinema of the time, westerns (American and Italian), samurai films, war films, comic books, artists, composers, and so on and so forth, up to and including the release of the film that changed the world.” Heilemann’s e-book, Kitbashed, is a work in progress—although it’s quite far along—but he recently released an annotated cut of Star Wars that draws from his extensive research. The video includes the whole film intercut with relevant scenes from film and TV that inspired Lucas’ work.