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‘Star Wars’ Was Possible Thanks to This ‘Revolutionary’ Motion Control Camera, Now on Display at the Academy Museum


'Star Wars’ was made possible thanks to a “revolutionary” motion control camera, now on display at the Academy Museum.

A half-century ago when George Lucas decided to make “ Star Wars,” a core visual effects team was handed a sizable challenge: Figure out a believable way to transport audiences to a galaxy far, far away. Now fans in Southern California can see the historic Dykstraflex camera system, newly restored and in working order, on display at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures starting Saturday in recognition of May the 4th, aka Star Wars day. Reflecting on the period during which the team worked on these scenes, Dykstra remembers that releasing studio 20th Century Fox “was on George Lucas’ back pretty hard about getting this space opera, as it was referred to, done.

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