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: 1.21 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. Damage_inc-, LtLaszlo, loaderXI 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: 20511 Content Per Day: 3.66 Reputation: 22519 Achievement Points: 148075 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 395 Joined: 01/07/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: 2 hours 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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