Welcome back to Looking at Lucasfilm. The podcast with a different perspective on the worlds of Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and all the other entities that George Lucas, Kathleen Kennedy, Dave Faloney, and John Favreau, as well as the rest of the team at Lucas Film, have dreamed up over the past 43 years.

Now I know, I know.

That's a little tweak on the way we usually open the show, but I only just learned earlier today that

Lucasfilm wasn't officially founded until 1971 and and Brian you obviously

understand why that would be because what

THX one one teach so yeah have you have you seen that movie it's been a long

but you did. I did.

Yeah, it was interesting.

And I'm sure he did that with Lucas too, right?

I mean with Coppola.

Yep.

That came out in theaters.

In fact, 43 years ago this month, release date March 11th

1971. Now as for Lucasfilm being incorporated that's when it became Lucasfilm limited

that didn't happen till September of 1977 George had to wait for until Fox

started forking over his share of that sweet, sweet new hope money.

Oh, before he can... Okay. There we go. And then industrial light magic, uh,

look at some's visual effects arm. It doesn't come into being until May of 1975, because again, they hadn't started, you know, though the effects were getting on Star Wars yet.

Now was IOM part of Lucas Film or was it like a separate? I mean when Disney bought Lucas Film they bought I'll M too.

Yeah. But again you got to remember, you know, once upon a time, Pixar was part of

a film. I mean, it's just, so, you know, it's just worlds within world, so to anyway by the way folks I learned all of this

stuff by signing up for the official Lucasome newsletter I got an invite just

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