Lucas tried this with Young Indiana Jones, and it was never a success in that it paid back the investment. He's doing it with slightly more success with The Clone Wars tv series, but ultimately, he's a creature of the big screen, not the small.
Fascinating to see a young George Lucas, but in my opinion Gene Youngblood is not a very good interviewer in this video as he does not allow George to talk very much. Mr. Youngblood is very well spoken but seems to dominate the conversation. It almost seems as if George is interviewing Gene. lqtm... Thanks for posting the video.
@MF728 You've got to remember that this is 1971 before American Graffiti during the promotion of Lucas's first film THX 1138. At that time, based on that film Lucas was considered an artsy experimental film maker. Youngblood was a published film critic for the Los Angeles Free Press & had written the now classic book "Expanded Cinema," so Lucas was actually learning from Youngblood. Youngblood had no idea that Lucas would do completely commercial films like "Star Wars" in a few years.
@Cahone He thought that people could override the brainwashing stranglehold of the mass media over them through technology. He was way too optimistic & willing to see good in humans, seeing change all around him at that time, maybe the greatest period of change in American history from 1966 to 1971, so you can't really blame his hippie ways. . Youngblood really was one of the greatest film critics ever. By 1970 in his book "Expanded Cinema" he had already figured out the future of cinema.
Lucas tried this with Young Indiana Jones, and it was never a success in that it paid back the investment. He's doing it with slightly more success with The Clone Wars tv series, but ultimately, he's a creature of the big screen, not the small.
amaxamon 1 month ago
Lucas sure learned about distribution and selling. How many version/releases of Star Wars are there. I've lost count.
USTUBE4000 1 year ago
Fascinating to see a young George Lucas, but in my opinion Gene Youngblood is not a very good interviewer in this video as he does not allow George to talk very much. Mr. Youngblood is very well spoken but seems to dominate the conversation. It almost seems as if George is interviewing Gene. lqtm... Thanks for posting the video.
MF728 2 years ago
@MF728 You've got to remember that this is 1971 before American Graffiti during the promotion of Lucas's first film THX 1138. At that time, based on that film Lucas was considered an artsy experimental film maker. Youngblood was a published film critic for the Los Angeles Free Press & had written the now classic book "Expanded Cinema," so Lucas was actually learning from Youngblood. Youngblood had no idea that Lucas would do completely commercial films like "Star Wars" in a few years.
metamorphosis67 1 year ago
Haha... and what a VHS revolution it was xD Not quite what the hippie next to george had in mind sadly enough :D
Cahone 2 years ago
@Cahone He thought that people could override the brainwashing stranglehold of the mass media over them through technology. He was way too optimistic & willing to see good in humans, seeing change all around him at that time, maybe the greatest period of change in American history from 1966 to 1971, so you can't really blame his hippie ways. . Youngblood really was one of the greatest film critics ever. By 1970 in his book "Expanded Cinema" he had already figured out the future of cinema.
metamorphosis67 1 year ago