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You Had To Make A Camera Look Like It's Traveling At 300 Mph, But You Couldn't Make It Actually Travel At 300 Mph So You Had To Slow Everything Down And Build Devices To Do That. So You Were Constantly Engineering.

George Lucas Wanted This Moving Camera For All Of The Photography In Star Wars. He Was Willing To Take A Risk With The Concepts That I Advanced With Regard To Ways For Doing That.

I Think That Era Of Mechanically Figuring Out Of How To Bring A Particular Evocative Image To The Screen Was A Really Important Part Of My Education.

I Had Done A Lot Of Rock 'n' Roll Photography When I Was In College. I Was One Of Many Photographers Who Worked For The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, And All Of These Rock 'n' Roll Bands.

Once The Image Was In The Digital Environment, One Of The Problems Was, We Had No Means To Reproduce The Color Spectrum, Grey Scale, And Contrast That Film Produces, Without Converting The Digital File To Film, Evaluating It, Then Going Back And Changing The Digital Image.