Look at Life (film)
- 1965 (1965)
Look at Life is a 1965 one-minute[1] short student film by George Lucas, produced for a course in animation while Lucas was a film student at USC Film School.[2] The film's running time of exactly one minute was required by the course. This was the first film made by George Lucas,[3] and was heavily influenced by Canadian filmmaker Arthur Lipsett.[4]
Summary
The film is a montage of various iconic photographs focusing mostly on common themes from youth culture in the 1960s, with a frenetic percussion soundtrack taken from the film Black Orpheus. The imagery includes photographs of Martin Luther King Jr., Nikita Khrushchev, American race riots, the Ku Klux Klan, Buddhist monks, beagle puppies and bodies of dead soldiers. The only narration in the film is a man's voice yelling the text of Proverbs 10:12, "Hate stirreth up strife, while love covereth all sins." The film ends with written text: "ANYONE FOR SURVIVAL", followed by "End" and "?".
Availability
The film is included in the documentary A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope,[5] which was released on the DVD and Blu-ray releases of Lucas' first feature film, THX 1138.
See also
- List of American films of 1965
- Still image film
- Life Magazine
References
- ^ The Politics Behind the Original "Star Wars" - Los Angeles Review of Books
- ^ George Lucas's '6-18-67,' 'Freheit,' 'Look at Life': Watch the 'Star Wars' director's first films - Slate Magazine
- ^ George Lucas|Academy of Achievement
- ^ FN-2187: why John Boyega's stormtropper number holds the key to Star Wars - The Telegraph
- ^ A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope posted officially by Gary Lava on Vimeo
External links
- Look at Life at IMDb
- The entire official short on YouTube posted by Academy of Achievement
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- The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
- Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
- Return of the Jedi (1983)
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
- The Ewok Adventure (1984, TV film)
- Ewoks: The Battle for Endor (1985, TV film)
- Captain EO (1986, short attraction)
- Willow (1988)
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
- Radioland Murders (1994)
- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
- Strange Magic (2015)
- The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1992–96 / 1999–2001)
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008–14; 2020)
- Star Wars Detours (unaired)
- Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker (1976, credit only)
- Shadow Moon (1995)
- Shadow Dawn (1996)
- Shadow Star (2000)
- Star Wars (1977–present)
- Indiana Jones (1981–present)
- Willow (1988–present)
- American Graffiti (1973–1979)
- Bald: The Making of THX 1138
- Light & Magic
- American Zoetrope
- Lucasfilm
- Lucas Museum of Narrative Art
- Skywalker Ranch
- THX
- Edutopia