Light and Magic (Disney+ 2022-2025)

Huntn · Friday at 7:15 AM

Industrial Light and Magic documentary, started it last night, 2 episodes in, the Star Wars episodes. I had realized that this movie, had been a challenge to make, I just did not realize what a challenge. Hollywood in the days before CGI, had no capability to create such a visual presentation using practical effects. George Lucas hired a bunch of people into special effects outside the Disney realm and tasked them to create the means, which meant taking old Vista Vision movie camera equipment and building the motion capture camera computerized system used to film spaceship models flying though space, from scratch. Cost over runs, a grumpy studio, they came down to the wire.