Black Angel (1979 Short Film by Roger Christian)

Black Angel is a once-lost, 25 minute, short fantasy film that was shown before theatre screenings of Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back in Australia and Europe. It was written and directed by Roger Christian, and financed in-part by George Lucas. The short involved a Knight on the way back from the crusades getting transported to a mystical fantasy world, in which he must save a princess from the "Black Angel".

Roger Christian himself, for years, tried searching for the original negative, but was unsuccessful. After roughly 30 years of the film being lost, Christian publicly announced in December 2012 that he had been recently been contacted by an archivist from Universal Studios, who had come across a copy of the film.

When asked about releasing the short, Christian replied "probably the best way is a downloadable version". He recently tweeted on January 11 that "the negs are all still in LA", that it "then has to be digitized, timed and maybe sound done" and that it'll "be a few months" before it is ready for re-release.