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Tom Kobayashi, pictured here at the Manzanar Internment Camp in 1943, went on to become a respected sound engineer who ran George Lucas’s postproduction facility Skywalker Sound. After Manzanar, Kobayashi went on to serve in the US Army from 1946 to 1951, and later graduated from USC in 1953 with a business degree. His Hollywood career began inauspiciously as an accounting clerk at a film lab.
After over 20 years of running audio postproduction at Glen Glenn Sound, George Lucas recruited Kobayashi to his new Skywalker Sound division under Lucasfilm in 1985. Kobayashi finished constructing a 700,000-square-foot postproduction facility north of San Francisco equipped with top-notch technology developed by Droidworks (another Lucasfilm division), which was an R&D arm that would jumpstart Pixar.
Kobayashi passed away in 2020 but left behind a legacy of postproduction innovation that changed the sound and film landscapes.
https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/fgo2y6/tom_kobayashi_the_respected_hollywood_sound/
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Originally titled ' #ElectronicLabyrinth ', this #short #film made in #1967 was the depiction behind the later #GeorgeLucas #SF classic, THX 1138 from 1971.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/VTmY9BtgX7ca/
An important piece of cinematic film #history in the genre of #dystopian #science #fiction.
It came out around the same time as Solyent Green (1973) and although they share many similarities, those similarities do seem to predict what we're seeing today. The differences are mostly cinematic plus the storylines, but unlike most of today's SF Hollywood polyfiller which lacks imagination and relies heavily on CGI and past worn-out regurgitated comic Marvel/DC paraphernalia turned franchises etc..
That earlier period of cinema produced much higher quality films without the need for multi-layers of technical wizardry but which more people seem to miss and relate to today.
It's also been compared to Stanley Kubrik's, 'A Clockwork Orange' - another classic social dystiopian film released in 1972 and 'Planet of the Apes' released even earlier in 1968, but that too unfortunately fell victim to the curse of the Hollywood franchise syndrome. Even when we fast forward ~1977 - Capricorn One, Coma, Star Wars, Moonraker and Close Encounters of the Third Kind all carry that theme of how an Evil Empire or the Deep State manipulates, deceives, oppresses and controls humanity...
George Lucas said in one #interview that it was a reflection of oppression and the feeling people generally had around the time of the Vietnam War and the string of assassinations from #JFK, #RFK, #MLK to #MalcolmX...and that feeling was to amplify even further just around the corner.
American Graffiti
Where were you in '62?
The second feature film directed by George Lucas was Amercian Graffiti (1973), after THX 1138 (1971) and before Star Wars (1977).
Interesting piece of trivia: the movie poster was drawn by Mad Magazine artist Mort Drucker. The following year, Mad published a parody of the film, American Confetti, where Mort got to reprise his rendition of Wolfman, Kurt, Terry, Debbie, Steve, Lori, John and Carol. Also the 58 Coupe and the black 55 Chevy which are almost characters in their own right.
Mad Magazine N° 166 (April 1974)
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