Star Wars animated in ASCII

Simon James spent from 1997-2015 manually animating Star Wars Episode III in ASCII. You can play it straight from your browser at different speeds. You can even rewind!

His FAQ explains the process and here’s what his frames look like

Here are two frames from the encoded text file.  
1                                                                  
                                     /~\                           
                                    |oo )                          
                                    _\=/_                          
                    ___            /  _  \                         
                   / ()\          //|/.\|\\                        
                 _|_____|_        \\ \_/  ||                       
                | | === | |        \|\ /| ||                       
                |_|  O  |_|        # _ _/ #                        
                 ||  O  ||          | | |                          
                 ||__*__||          | | |                          
                |~ \___/ ~|         []|[]                          
                /=\ /=\ /=\         | | |                          
________________[_]_[_]_[_]________/_]_[_\_________________________
5                                                                  
                                     /~\                           
                                    |oo )                          
                                    _\=/_                          
                    ___         #  /  _  \                         
                   / ()\        \\//|/.\|\\                        
                 _|_____|_       \/  \_/  ||                       
                | | === | |         |\ /| ||                       
                |_|  O  |_|         \_ _/ #                        
                 ||  O  ||          | | |                          
                 ||__*__||          | | |                          
                |~ \___/ ~|         []|[]                          
                /=\ /=\ /=\         | | |                          
________________[_]_[_]_[_]________/_]_[_\_________________________

What an insane idea, but even a greater execution!