Industrial Light & Magic: Creating the Impossible

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Industrial Light & Magic: Creating the Impossible, is a 2010 TV documentary film written, produced and directed by Leslie Iwerks.[1] it is produced by her company; Leslie Iwerks Productions.[3] it aired on Encore.[2] the documentary chronicles the history of the visual effects company; Industrial Light & Magic, from their origins in 1975, all the way up to 2010.[4] it is narrated by Tom Cruise.[5][3]

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Plot summary

A look over the incredible work of ILM and how they revolutionized the way we see film with the introduction and advances of CGI or Computer Generated Image.[6] This documentary takes us from the incredible start of effects to creating Star Wars and then advance to really demonstrate how it can be blended in with Jurassic Park to now a culture of films that can't avoid the technology and is another tool for the directors belt.[7]

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Cast

Crew

  • Leslie Iwerks - Director, Writer, Editor, Producer
  • Jane Kelly Kosek - Producer
  • Diana E. Williams - Producer
  • Jeff Stephenson - Writer
  • Christopher Brady - Music
  • Steven Douglas Smith (as S. Douglas Smith) - Cinematograper
  • Jeff Stephenson - Editor
  • Stephanie Bravo - makeup artist
  • Nikki Carbonetta - makeup artist
  • Marcelo Donari - makeup artist
  • Peggy Lucas - makeup artist
  • Cheri Minns - makeup artist for Robin Williams
  • Nellie Muganda - makeup artist
  • Lisa Zomer - makeup artist
  • Matthew Burgette - sound mixer
  • Martin Kittappa - sound mixer
  • Jeremy Protz - sound mixer
  • Thomas Spingola - sound mixer
  • Susan Bradley - visual effects
  • Craig Kuehne - visual effects
  • Jacek Laskus - additional cinematography
  • Suki Medencevic - additional cinematography
  • Pedja Radenkovic - assistant camera
  • Tim Rose (as Tim Rosenberg) - assistant camera
  • Angela Gardner - assistant editor
  • Curtis Moore - additional music
  • Mark Allen - production assistant
  • Steven Belgard - publicist
  • Andy Blalock - production assistant
  • Allyson Bobus - production assistant
  • Susan Bradley - title designer
  • Elisa Lomnitz Climent (as Elisa Lomnitz) - production assistant
  • Erik Danford - production assistant
  • Jade DeCosta - production accountant
  • Stacey Leong - Lucasfilm archives
  • Teresa Leong - production assistant
  • Kindra McCall - production assistant
  • Michael Parkinson - archival liaison
  • Michael E. Tang (as Michael Tang) - assistant to Leslie Iwerks
  • Tiffany Yee - production assistant
  • Brooke Livingston - special thanks

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Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Premium-Era-real Industrial Light & Magic: Creating the Impossible on Encore press room (backup link archived on January 18, 2012)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Premium-Era-real Documentary celebrates 35 years of ILM magic by Daniel Terdiman on CNET (September 16, 2010) (backup link archived on August 22, 2023)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 StarWars.com Encore Celebrates Industrial Light & Magic with New Documentary on StarWars.com (original site is defunct)
  4. ↑ Premium-Era-real Leslie Iwerks Directing ILM Doc by Rick DeMott on Animation World Network (September 15, 2010) (backup link archived on bad argument #2 to 'formatDate': invalid timestamp '2023080114441920120118204636')
  5. ↑ Premium-Era-real Leslie Iwerks and Tom Cruise Team for ILM Doc by Silas Lesnick on Commingsoon.net (September 14, 2010) (backup link archived on May 9, 2021)
  6. ↑ Premium-Era-real ILM TURNS 35 AND ENCORE HAS A DOC TO CELEBRATE THEM by Renn Brown on CHUD.com (September 14, 2010) (backup link archived on March 3, 2021)
  7. ↑ Premium-Era-real Encore celebrates ILM: “Industrial Light & Magic: Creating the Impossible” Nov. 14 by April MacIntyre on Monsters and Critics (September 14, 2010) (original page now obsolete)

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