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Industrial Light & Magic, or ILM, is the visual effects company responsible for much of the visual effects in the Star Wars films. It was founded by George Lucas in 1975, as part of Lucasfilm Limited. They have also been responsible for the effects on over 200 other films, including Jurassic Park, the Back to the Future trilogy, the Harry Potter films, the Indiana Jones franchise, the 2009 film, Star Trek, and Super 8 (2011).

1 Creation
2 Star Wars
3 Sources
4 External links
- 4.1 In other languages

CreationEdit

After George Lucas made the hit movie American Graffiti, he worked on a space opera he called The Star Wars. When he took his ideas and script to 20th Century FOX, they liked the story. FOX brought him in and FOX agreed on releasing the movie for Lucas. However, the Special effects department had been shut down because of costs and people's interest in more realistic looking films. Lucas then founded Industrial Light and Magic, or ILM, from numerous commercial editors.

Star WarsEdit

ILM's first film was Star Wars (called The Star Wars at first). The company had just recently been founded, and was not sure it could successfully edit the film. Even so, ILM built the necessary equipment for the film.

ILM lost many employees while filming Star Wars, and it was thought that ILM would be crushed. Most doubted "Star Wars" would ever reach theaters. ILM had been trying to create special effects that had never been done before—new ground-breaking special effects that many at ILM thought would never work. After returning from Tunisia and ending principal photography for Star Wars, the ILM company was in worse shape than ever before. Their building in Van Nuys, California was in bad shape, so Lucas decided to move elsewhere. Some of the founders of ILM, however, decided to stay and make their own company called Apogee.

In 2010, ILM allowed the show The Amazing Race to film at their complex. They set up a challenge for the contestants on the show, which involved the characters of Ponds, Cody, and Padmé Amidala from The Clone Wars.