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Industrial Light & Magic: The Art of Innovation

Pamela Glintenkamp; foreword by Jon Favreau; preface by Gore Verbinski

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Summary

Pamela Glintenkamp presents an illustrated oral history of Industrial Light & Magic. It starts with the small group of craftspeople, engineers and artists formed for Star Wars, then follows technical work through later films. Accounts from filmmakers and technicians explain the changing methods behind visual effects. Jon Favreau contributes the foreword and Gore Verbinski the preface. The checked Abrams edition was published in 2011.

  • SourceIndustrial Light & Magic: The Art of Innovation — source record · ORAL HISTORY BOOK: INDUSTRIAL LIGHT & MAGIC: THE ART OF INNOVATION, author/client and opening scope paragraphs.
  • SourceFinna — national film archive edition and full credits · Pamela Glintenkamp; Jon Favreau foreword; Gore Verbinski preface; Abrams 2011; ISBN 9780810998025.
  • SourceTCDC — contents of the actual edition · Contents: first two decades then annual productions; The only constant is change, from analog to digital.

Why read it Our view

Use the oral history to examine how artists and technical staff solve new production problems together. Compare the early effects team with later work rather than assuming that a new tool alone explains the company’s growth.

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  • George LucasCompany founder
    An oral history of the company Lucas founded. Author and institutional catalog prove the published title The Art of Innovation; Creating the Impossible is a conflicting prepublication/catalog title, not a separate staged work.
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