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STEM Project about George Lucas who was born in Modesto, California in 1944
George is best known as the Director of Star Wars, but his greatest contributions to the movie industry are probably his innovations in Special Effects, Digital Photography, Stop Motion Photography, and Post Production Sound |
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Growing up George wanted to be a racecar driver but a near fatal car accident changed his mindGraduated from USC Film school
Created science fiction film THX which won student competition awards |
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Met and became friends with Francis Ford Coppola
Coppola helped George get American Graffiti approved by a movie studio |
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American Graffiti was a huge success and with the money he made George was able to develop Star Wars
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To make Star Wars as real as possible, George had to create new technologies for Special Effects and Cinematography
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Interesting Fact; George was the Director of only the original Star Wars. For the other Star Wars movies and Indiana Jones, he was the Producer and was a big creative influence
Produced many other movies including Howard the Duck, Willow, Land Before Time, and Hook |
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George Lucas has been a tremendous innovator in the movie industry for 40 years. He has semi-retired as he sold Lucasfilm to Disney in 2012 but is contributing some writing to Star Wars 7
George Lucas' movies are some of my favorites because the innovations he made in special effects, cinematography, and sound make the impossible seem believable |
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