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Curiosityness

083 Star Wars Visual Effects | Richard Edlund

Curiosityness

Travis DeRose

History, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.8566 Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Four-time Academy Award winner Richard Edlund is our guest on this episode! Richard was one of the first to join the groundbreaking visual effects team for Star Wars! He then moved on to supervise visual effects for the next two episodes of Star Wars, as well as Raiders of the Lost Ark and Poltergeist.

Learn more about Richard at http://www.richardedlund.com

 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

A spontaneous and unrehearsed interview.

0:07.2

This is the 83rd episode of Curiosityness.

0:11.2

I am Travis DeRose, the host of the show that you're listening to, where we interview interesting people.

0:17.8

And that's why this week we're talking to Richard Edland.

0:21.0

So Richard Edland. So,

0:27.3

Richard Edland is like, he's like a Da Vinci. He does like everything. He's learned so much stuff and has been involved in so many things. But specifically, we talk a lot about his

0:31.2

involvement in the visual special effects of Star Wars. He was recruited for that to kind of work with ILM on Star Wars. And he's just

0:43.4

an incredible guy with a bunch of cool stories and things he's done. He worked on making a guitar

0:51.4

amp, a small guitar amp. And he was in the Navy. He's just got a really fun story. I can't

0:56.3

even articulate it right now because it's too much. And we kind of just barely scratch the

1:00.6

service. But it's a really interesting conversation. Richard's a really cool guy. And I think

1:06.0

you're really going to enjoy this. So let's get to the episode. Here is Richard Edland.

1:12.3

Real quick, one more thing.

1:21.3

We're doing a giveaway. It's this cool 3D Star Wars R2D2 LED light type of thing. I saw it and almost bought it for myself, so figured it'd be a good giveaway thing. It's pretty cool. Go to curiosityness.com slash giveaway,

1:29.1

and you can win this thing.

1:31.1

So curiosityness.com slash giveaway.

1:33.7

Okay, done on to the episode.

1:38.2

All right.

1:39.0

Boom, we're going.

1:41.4

What's up, Richard?

1:43.2

How are you doing

1:44.9

I'm doing great

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