May 5, 20224 yr Well an exaggeration of what really happened but George Lucas who sold the rights to his move franchise to Disney for at least 3 billion dollars, started out by making a movie based on his hobby. Which was listening in to scanner radio broadcasts, like the aviation bands. He was a student at USC University in Los Angeles majoring in Cinematic Arts. In graduate school for a class he was supposed to make a film. He took sound recorded from the scanner radio of ATC and made his Sci Fi 16mm feature Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB. "Runways" became actual ways along which runners were fleeing for their lives out of a police state of the future. The assemblage of the RWYs at LAX and other airports heard on the radio became the labyrinth of roads down which fugitives could try their luck running for freedom. THX is like LAX and other 3 letter airport codes. The movie won first place from a national collegiate film society. Lucas graduated and went to Hollywood. He pitched the idea of a Hollywood move called THX 1138 which was a glorified remake of his university film. A mild success, and after that on to American Graffiti and then Star Wars and billions of dollars. 5800X3D, RTX4070, 600 Watt, one or two 1440p 32" screens, 64 GB RAM, 4 TB PCle 3 NVMe, Warthog throttle, VKB NXT EVO stick, Honeycomb Alpha yoke, CH quad, 3 Logitech panels, 2 StreamDecks, Desktop Aviator Trim Panel. Crystal Light VR.
May 5, 20224 yr Author A few years ago, one of the TV movie channels, probably Turner, played the college movie and the talking heads panel beforehand chatted about how it was conceived by young Lucas. 5800X3D, RTX4070, 600 Watt, one or two 1440p 32" screens, 64 GB RAM, 4 TB PCle 3 NVMe, Warthog throttle, VKB NXT EVO stick, Honeycomb Alpha yoke, CH quad, 3 Logitech panels, 2 StreamDecks, Desktop Aviator Trim Panel. Crystal Light VR.
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