These guys made magic
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icruise
Super Freak
Great stuff. Love the beards. 
It must have been incredible to work on the film back then.
It must have been incredible to work on the film back then.I remember being a kid and reading everything I could about the making of Star Wars. These people did incredible work back then. To say they revolutionized special effects is an understatement. And it did look like a lot of fun!
What a bunch of hippies.
jkno
Stormtrooper
This is great! They had a lot of fun making SW
Darth Cruel
Super Freak
This video, I think, has shed some light on the source of the inspiration for the special effects.
drugs
real sfx :chew the way movies should be made, cool video
Great find, Batty!
Darth Waller
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Now that's how movies should be made! Lots of people using models and lighting and cameras. I could watch hours of behind-the-scenes stuff like this.
I could watch hours of this stuff too. I hope Lucas will one day open the vaults and release more of the "making of" footage.
Darth Waller
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It's funny that you don't see him in any of that footage. He was either edited out or just wasn't as hands-on back in those days.
David Berry (the guy who made this) was probably worried he'd get in trouble if he actually showed Lucas. I'm surprised he was able to put this out at all. I guess that's why there's a disclaimer at the end. It also doesn't mention anything about SW or ILM in the title.
Darth Waller
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Yeah, probably smart not to show him. How did you come across this video?
swabie2424
Super Freak
I absolutely love this video. Oh the nostalgia! Love seeing things before Star Wars became Star Wars. Just seems more real somehow...
It really shows how much our world, even the world of Hollywood, has changed since the mid-70's. I'm not just talking about facial hair either. Not only are there no computers in sight here (which really drives home how innovative these young folks really were)... but it's so cool seeing people having fun while they work. Maybe their fun ways are what contributed to Lucas having chest pains and ending up in the hospital around this time. But can you imagine watersliding at work? I work in Hollywood and would get fired in under 1 minute. Put it this way, even at the company picnic... they'd probably make us sign a 400 page release to cover their butts.
I went to USC film school many moons ago... and I heard a lot of these ILM stories from the older staff guys at USC who knew most of these folks "back in the day". But you never really understand it until you see how things actually were. If a picture is a worth a thousand words, a video like this is worth a million.
One last side note, I spent a lot of time in that very building in the 1990's. Stan Winston Studios moved into the old ILM buildings in Van Nuys, and I had the priviledge of working with Stan for about a year on a project before his passing. (The project never saw the light of day unfortunately). If I only realized the echos I was hearing were from a buncha watersliding hippies! lol....
It really shows how much our world, even the world of Hollywood, has changed since the mid-70's. I'm not just talking about facial hair either. Not only are there no computers in sight here (which really drives home how innovative these young folks really were)... but it's so cool seeing people having fun while they work. Maybe their fun ways are what contributed to Lucas having chest pains and ending up in the hospital around this time. But can you imagine watersliding at work? I work in Hollywood and would get fired in under 1 minute. Put it this way, even at the company picnic... they'd probably make us sign a 400 page release to cover their butts.
I went to USC film school many moons ago... and I heard a lot of these ILM stories from the older staff guys at USC who knew most of these folks "back in the day". But you never really understand it until you see how things actually were. If a picture is a worth a thousand words, a video like this is worth a million.
One last side note, I spent a lot of time in that very building in the 1990's. Stan Winston Studios moved into the old ILM buildings in Van Nuys, and I had the priviledge of working with Stan for about a year on a project before his passing. (The project never saw the light of day unfortunately). If I only realized the echos I was hearing were from a buncha watersliding hippies! lol....
Chew74
Super Freak
That was great, thanks Batty!
Dr.FeelGood
Super Freak
This is a venerable who's who of the best Minature and Special effects artists to ever bring stuff to life on the big screen...
Without them, Star Wars and MANY MANY other movies we all know and love so much would have been nothing but a pipe dream
Without them, Star Wars and MANY MANY other movies we all know and love so much would have been nothing but a pipe dream
Just by chance. It's making its way around the internet. I've watched it a few times now. I never get tired of it.
Darth Waller
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I do have one question though: was that a real slip-n-slide? The one I had as a kid was just a long plastic sheet that you hooked the hose up to. That looked like a slip-n-slid on steroids.
