Why did Star Wars change cinema? In 1977, George Lucas presented studios with a space adventure featuring farms, mystical knights, a princess, and a masked villain. Almost all rejected it. Only Fox agreed, and Lucas accepted a lower salary in exchange for the rights to sequels and merchandising. In this analysis, you'll discover how he founded Industrial Light & Magic in a warehouse in Van Nuys and invented the Dykstraflex camera for filming miniatures in motion control. We'll talk about Ralph McQuarrie's paintings that created a "used future," the physical sounds Ben Burtt recorded on radio poles and projector motors, and John Williams' orchestral score that gave hope to space. See how a rejected film became the biggest phenomenon of its time, gave rise to ILM, Pixar, and the franchise model that dominates Hollywood.

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00:00 Why do we believe in the world of Star Wars?

01:17 George Lucas, Flash Gordon, and the origin of the idea
02:15 American Graffiti paved the way for Star Wars
02:54 Lucas tried to buy the rights to Flash Gordon
03:17 Why studios rejected Star Wars
03:42 Fox bet on George Lucas
04:16 The deal that changed Hollywood forever
05:29 Tatooine, Tunisia, and the broken robots
06:29 George Lucas and the difficulty of directing actors
07:04 Fox almost abandoned Star Wars
07:40 The unfinished cut that scared executives
08:15 Industrial Light & Magic is born in a warehouse
08:41 Douglas Trumbull, 2001, and the bridge to Star Wars
09:19 The young team that invented modern effects
10:04 How to make plastic spaceships look real
10:52 Dykstraflex and the birth of motion control
12:00 The Star Wars trench of Death
12:17 The opening shot with the Star Destroyer
12:42 VistaVision and ILM's old cameras
13:27 Ralph McQuarrie and the look of Star Wars
14:43 The used future that changed science fiction
15:42 Ben Burtt and the real sounds of Star Wars
16:27 How the lightsaber sound was created
17:22 Blasters, Darth Vader, Chewbacca and R2-D2
18:28 John Williams and the Star Wars soundtrack
20:14 The private screening that almost nobody understood
20:49 Brian De Palma and the opening text
21:07 The premiere of Star Wars in 1977
21:54 How ILM became an institution
22:23 How Star Wars changed Hollywood
23:48 Lucasfilm, Pixar and the digital future
24:21 The merchandising that changed the industry
24:40 ILM, Dykstraflex, John Williams and the Legacy
25:17 The studio that created a new form of cinema

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