Tag: John Dykstra
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George Lucas Committed To An Impossible Task For Star Wars’ Earliest Special Effects
George Lucas had a bold vision when he set out to make “Star Wars” in the mid-1970s. He did not, however, have the technology to pull it off. No one did, at least not at an affordable price.Douglas Trumbull had recently vaulted visual effects forward with his optical innovations for Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space…