6.18.67

At the end of his tenture at USC,  24-year-old George Lucas went to Arizona to follow the production of the western, McKenna's Gold for three months. He made this short visual tone-poem while there.

This short was extracted from a 1971 interview with Gene Youngblood, called George Lucas: Maker of Films, which you can read more about at http://binarybonsai.com/2009/06/20/george-lucas-maker-of-films-1971/

PS: The sound is out of sync, I'll see if I can't get that fixed.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• georgelucas
• mckennasgold
• movies

[flowerlandfilms]

Man and machines and the untouched foreboding wilderness. Everything about George is amazing.

[FidelCastro128]

The beatnick 'George' Lucas impressive short documentary.

Shame about the quality, images are still impressive

poetic images from mr. lucas :)

[nirvana2187]

It is a abstract purely visual non-story non-character film and the compositions, colors, light, camerwork and visual effects are what matter and they are not served well by this awful quality old TV broadcast transmission tape which is now even worse on a youtube compressed clip. It's a shame.

[nirvana2187]

I saw a beautiful DVD transfer at USC's moving image archive a few years back. The visuals and the sounds were astonishing clear and vibrant, especially considering it is a 16mm film from the 1960s. I loved it! They had a DVD of all of his abstract visual and cinema verite shorts from the 1960s, except for "filmmaker, a diary" which they had a 16mm copy of which was still great to see. This video clip does not do "6-18-67" justice.