Without this 1972 Cal study, Luke Skywalker might not have destroyed the Death Star.
-based special effects studio Industrial Light & Magic, which was founded in 1975. The ending of the second episode explores the process behind the Death Star scene, in which the fate of the Rebel Alliance hangs on Luke Skywalker’s ability to speed his X-wing through a narrow trench and blast a thermal exhaust port that is only 2 meters wide.
“They wanted to do a perception study,” “Light & Magic” director Lawrence Kasdan told SFGATE. “They wanted to know if they showed film to people, and one of the films was totally artificial and miniaturized, had they successfully made it feel real? Was their physiological reaction different than when they saw actual footage from out of a car?”
“That’s the basis for everything ILM has ever done. They want to make you feel you’re there,” Kasdan said. “John Dykstra wasn’t thinking about that when he was at Berkeley. He wasn’t thinking about how to solve this problem. But that turned out to be the ethos of Industrial Light & Magic for 40 years.”
“It’s a dead giveaway that it’s a miniature,” Dykstra told SFGATE. “We were working on subliminal cues, which was the important part of this, to get a response from the viewer. We wanted to make it optically as real as possible.”Courtesy of Imagine DocumentariesCourtesy of Imagine DocumentariesArchival photos of a model of Marin County in the UC Berkeley Environmental Simulation Laboratory.
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