The false title prevented this from occurring during filming of Return of the Jedi. While filming The Empire Strikes Back, Lucas found that services would increase their charges based on the speculated high budget. Can you imagine what would have happened if we had said, 'We're shooting the next film in the Star Wars trilogy'? So when a visitor would ask, 'what are you shooting' and we said Blue Harvest, they went on their way. Camera slates, invoices, hotel reservations, call sheets, production reports, and crew hats and T-shirts all read Blue Harvest. When shooting Jedi in the United States we called the film Blue Harvest. Despite erecting a chain link fence, employing a huge security force, and dodging myriad press inquiries, approximately sixty fans saw through the ruse in the end and refused to leave until they had obtained a few autographs and photos. The filming took place in the dunes over the Thanksgiving holiday, with a reported crowd of 35,000 dune buggy enthusiasts. Additionally, the ruse was employed during location filming in Yuma, Arizona. Several locals began to question the ruse when they say Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher sitting together at a local restaurant in Del Norte county called Jim's. This ruse was used in Northern California, when finding a location for the redwood forest scenes of Endor. The Blue Harvest façade did give a bit of a wink and nod to its true purpose, however, as the supposed film's logo (intentionally or unintentionally) used the distinctive Star Wars logo typeface. The Blue Harvest ruse, credited to producer Howard Kazanjian, was very thorough the fictitious film's logo was emblazoned on a wide range of film production items including shirts, caps, coats, buttons, signs, invoices, and stationery. The title was used in all areas where deemed necessary.
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