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Industrial Light & Magic: 50 Years of Innovation

Mark Newbold
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Fifty years ago on this very day, Industrial Light & Magic came to life, created to deliver the special effects for 1977’s Star Wars and over the following half century creating visual effects for over 500 films, seven of which sit in the all-time top 10 highest grossing movies and gathering 16 Academy Awards for Best Visual Effects, 36 Academy Sci-Tech Awards and 50 Academy Award nominations along the way. No other effects company comes close in vintage, influence, quality or sheer unfiltered magic, so to every person who’s had the slightest hand in bringing that light and magic to the screen, happy 50th anniversary.

 

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Mark Newbold
Mark Newbold
Exploring the galaxy since 1978, Mark wrote his first fan fiction in 1981 and been a presence online since his first webpage Fanta War in 1996. He's contributed to Star Wars Insider (since '06) and Starburst Magazine (since '16) as well as ILM.com, SkywalkerSound.com, StarWars.com, Star Wars Encyclopedia, Build The Millennium Falcon, Geeky Monkey, TV Film Memorabilia, Model and Collectors Mart, Star Trek magazine and StarTrek.com. He is a four-time Star Wars Celebration Stage host, the only podcaster to have appeared on every Celebration podcast stage since the stage began in 2015, the Daily Content Manager of Fantha Tracks and the co-host of Making Tracks, Canon Fodder and Start Your Engines on Fantha Tracks Radio.
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Fifty years ago on this very day, Industrial Light & Magic came to life, created to deliver the special effects for 1977’s Star Wars and over the following half century creating visual effects for over 500 films, seven of which sit in the all-time top 10 highest grossing movies and gathering 16 Academy Awards for Best Visual Effects, 36 Academy Sci-Tech Awards and 50 Academy Award nominations along the way. No other effects company comes close in vintage, influence, quality or sheer unfiltered magic, so to every person who’s had the slightest hand in bringing that light and magic to the screen, happy 50th anniversary.

 

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Mark Newbold
Mark Newbold
Exploring the galaxy since 1978, Mark wrote his first fan fiction in 1981 and been a presence online since his first webpage Fanta War in 1996. He's contributed to Star Wars Insider (since '06) and Starburst Magazine (since '16) as well as ILM.com, SkywalkerSound.com, StarWars.com, Star Wars Encyclopedia, Build The Millennium Falcon, Geeky Monkey, TV Film Memorabilia, Model and Collectors Mart, Star Trek magazine and StarTrek.com. He is a four-time Star Wars Celebration Stage host, the only podcaster to have appeared on every Celebration podcast stage since the stage began in 2015, the Daily Content Manager of Fantha Tracks and the co-host of Making Tracks, Canon Fodder and Start Your Engines on Fantha Tracks Radio.
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