DID George Lucas get inspiration for Star Wars heavy breather and stuff shirt Darth Vader and C-3PO, respectively, from Vajen-Bader-style helmets for German (menacing black one) and French (flashy golden one) firefighters?

The masks are from between the mid-1800s and World War I.
Someone on a pair of bellows would pump air into the mask through 13 meters of flexible tubing. It’s what you don’t see in the movies…
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