Lucasfilm held an annual meeting for all employees. It was held in the Stag Theater at Skywalker Sound. Each division made a little video that was presented at the meeting. Each video was to promote the division. I made the one for Skywalker Sound. I used a Hi-8 camera and was on my own to make a home-movie level video. No budget, no crew. Just a camera and a ticket to Los Angeles to shoot our other two other facilities we had down there. I edited it on Editdroid.
The main reason I'm posting this is that quite a while ago, we discussed the way post sound was mixed using 35mm film with a magnetic coat on it. Those days, there might be 90+ tracks in the final mix (after a pre-mix session to reduce the number of tracks). So there was a room filled with these racks. Each rack had a reel of 35mm film that had I believe, had 2 channels of audio on it. So there were a lot of racks that filled a room. They would run in sync with the projector and would roll back and forth as the mixers ran the projector back and forth to mix the film in a mixing stage, which is a full sized theater.
In the second piece on this short, you can see those racks with the audio on 35mm film. You can also see Ben Burtt, the man who named the infamous 'Wilhelm Scream'.
You may also notice a loop of film running on one of the racks. That's how they used to have a sound effect like maybe crickets, continuously running for background. If you listen to old movie's effects, you can actually hear the effect repeat.
The first short, Tech Building Terror, is about the Tech Building at Skywalker Ranch. It is a luxurious facility that made me feel almost giddy every day that I came to work. In the video, I made fun of the architecture and the chairs in the lunch room. The building was George Lucas' design*. He never made a comment about it. But he did ask for the video to view it again privately. He then fixed the chairs.
The man at the opening of the second video is Tom Kobayashi, who was head of Glen Glenn sound before joining Lucasfilm. He was head of Skywalker Sound.
*The building has an unwritten story passed on to each employee. It is supposed to look like a winery that had expanded the building twice and used different architecture each time. So the interior has Art Deco, Craftsman, and 'German Train Station' architecture, complete with exterior walls on the inside as though it was built in stages.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KXdalsYYSoHxKQlIJYoNoQ8Jsq57ZXnz/view?usp=sharing
The main reason I'm posting this is that quite a while ago, we discussed the way post sound was mixed using 35mm film with a magnetic coat on it. Those days, there might be 90+ tracks in the final mix (after a pre-mix session to reduce the number of tracks). So there was a room filled with these racks. Each rack had a reel of 35mm film that had I believe, had 2 channels of audio on it. So there were a lot of racks that filled a room. They would run in sync with the projector and would roll back and forth as the mixers ran the projector back and forth to mix the film in a mixing stage, which is a full sized theater.
In the second piece on this short, you can see those racks with the audio on 35mm film. You can also see Ben Burtt, the man who named the infamous 'Wilhelm Scream'.
You may also notice a loop of film running on one of the racks. That's how they used to have a sound effect like maybe crickets, continuously running for background. If you listen to old movie's effects, you can actually hear the effect repeat.
The first short, Tech Building Terror, is about the Tech Building at Skywalker Ranch. It is a luxurious facility that made me feel almost giddy every day that I came to work. In the video, I made fun of the architecture and the chairs in the lunch room. The building was George Lucas' design*. He never made a comment about it. But he did ask for the video to view it again privately. He then fixed the chairs.
The man at the opening of the second video is Tom Kobayashi, who was head of Glen Glenn sound before joining Lucasfilm. He was head of Skywalker Sound.
*The building has an unwritten story passed on to each employee. It is supposed to look like a winery that had expanded the building twice and used different architecture each time. So the interior has Art Deco, Craftsman, and 'German Train Station' architecture, complete with exterior walls on the inside as though it was built in stages.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KXdalsYYSoHxKQlIJYoNoQ8Jsq57ZXnz/view?usp=sharing
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