little_old_man Posted July 28, 2014 Member ID: 1194 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 40 Topic Count: 436 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 6692 Content Per Day: 1.20 Reputation: 11691 Achievement Points: 53094 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 76 Joined: 02/27/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 16, 2023 Birthday: 04/15/1960 Posted July 28, 2014 I came across this video a little while ago with lots of still pictures from behind the scenes on the Star Wars sets. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=466_1406510750 When I graduated high school in 1977 I went to work for my uncle just north of San Francisco in San Rafael. I worked late evenings a lot and always noticed a lot of activity in the warehouse next door to my office, so one night I walked over to take a look to see what what going on. A man met me at the back door and we started talking and he invited me in for a beer. Once inside I was amazed to see that the warehouse was full of men building great big models for the upcoming movie "The Empire Strikes Back". Needless to say I spent every minute I could over there, became good friends with a couple of the model makers and even got to meet George Lucas on a few occasions. They were always coming over to borrow tools and our forklift and told me I was welcome to come over any time as long as I promised to never take pictures of anything, so I unfortunately I didn't. Many of the pictures in the link I provided were taken in that warehouse in San Rafael, and most of the workers I knew went on to be the initial employees of Industrial Light and Magic, which is still going strong today and doing special effect for lots of movies. loaderXI, LtLaszlo, Cpt.TennealXI and 5 others 8 Awards
Sammy Posted July 28, 2014 Member ID: 3036 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 32 Topic Count: 219 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 9419 Content Per Day: 1.92 Reputation: 7515 Achievement Points: 62539 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 21 Joined: 11/29/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 17 Birthday: 04/26/2008 Device: Windows Posted July 28, 2014 I was in SF one day before their new digs at the Presidio were to open to the public for its grand opening. Unfortuantely I had to leave the next day. I talked for a couple minutes to an ILM guy out front who was directing something or other, nice guy, to see if I could just check out the grounds a little bit because I was leaving but of course nobody could get in. Times have changed since the late 70's. Awards
Darkstar Posted July 28, 2014 Member ID: 21037 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 4 Topic Count: 14 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 132 Content Per Day: 0.03 Reputation: 61 Achievement Points: 1007 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 04/14/14 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 17, 2016 Birthday: 07/28/1995 Posted July 28, 2014 Great find LOM!!! Another Star Wars video to add to my collection.
TBB Posted July 28, 2014 Member ID: 989 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 25 Topic Count: 290 Topics Per Day: 0.05 Content Count: 20545 Content Per Day: 3.66 Reputation: 22526 Achievement Points: 148254 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 395 Joined: 01/07/10 Status: Online Last Seen: 14 minutes ago Birthday: 01/27/1946 Device: Windows Posted July 28, 2014 Nice find LOM!!! Youi've been on a tare lately of being useful - christmas is too far off for it to help you! Awards
eidolonFIRE Posted July 28, 2014 Member ID: 2759 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 17 Topic Count: 199 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 3496 Content Per Day: 0.70 Reputation: 3021 Achievement Points: 26464 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 3 Joined: 08/22/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 16, 2017 Birthday: 07/27/1990 Posted July 28, 2014 that's incredible! You could make a lot of people very envious with that story.
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