More book stuff

Finished up the "Making of Star Wars" book today. Amazing backstory to the beginning of the phenomenon. Didn't realize that Lucas was also responsible for Apocalypse Now and at one point actually had to choose which movie to make. I'm glad he decided on SW personally. Reading about the work that went on to set up ILM reminded me a little bit of my humble forays into the study of filmmaking around that time frame such as at De Anza College under Todd Flinchbaugh (who passed away in 1994) where I worked on a student film called "If At First You Don't Succeed" that was animated cutouts similar to the way they make "South Park". We had to make it on 16mm film (before video) and I never saw it again after the initial showing at a student film festival. I still have some of the artwork somewhere. I also worked on some preliminary production designs for a movie that I don't think ever got made. It had a script and a crew and we met off and on for around a year before I lost track of them. I still have artwork and a script from that one as well. Also took an animation class at Mission College from a guy named Sam Comstock, who worked at ILM on various projects.

I also finished the "At War With The Wind" book this week. Got to take all of the library books back next week. Located Lauri's book on the Santa Clara city library online catalog - is that cool or what? They have two copies listed with one on the Young Adult shelf. Check it out here.