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Info: ILM Super 8 home movies on Ebay - anyone seen this before?

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If this auction goes well, all the crew will start eBaying their home movies!

Me? I’m waiting for this super8 home movie …

George Lucas saw that his new special effects unit under John Dykstra was producing very little useable footage. So he went to I.L.M. to find out what was the problem. To his horror, he witnessed the crew blowing off steam after a marathon of filming. Dykstra was using a fork-lift to repeatedly hoist a refrigerator into the air and smash it back down to the concrete,

to the wild cheers of the I.L.M. staff.

Lucas nearly had a heart attack and was hospitalize days later for exhaustion.

-described in Skywalking - The Life And Films Of George Lucas by Dale Pollock