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Princess Mombi in *almost* all her glory. Stay away from Cabinet 31! #danjpetock #myart #myartwork #fanart #returntooz #wizardofoz #dorothygale #jackpumpkinhead #lfrankbaum #waltermurch #princessmombi #mombi #jeanmarsh #sophieward #fionavictory #emmaridley #fairuzabalk #brianhenson #wicked #oz #ozma #emeraldcity #disney https://www.instagram.com/p/CWTcXzJFlGn/?utm_medium=tumblr

#ReturnToOz, first released in cinemas #OnThisDay in 1985⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #TitleScreen #OTD #WalterMurch #FairuzaBalk #NicolWilliamson #JeanMarsh #PiperLaurie https://www.instagram.com/p/CQZD0s8Br7H/?utm_medium=tumblr

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#ReturnToOz, first released in cinemas #OnThisDay in 1985 Art by #DrewStruzan (@drewstruzanart) #CoolArt #Art #FairuzaBalk #DorothyGale #Billina #TikTok #JackPumpkinhead #Gump #TinMan #Scarecrow #CowardlyLion #EmeraldCity #Ozma #WalterMurch #TheMarvelousLandOfOz #OzmaOfOz https://www.instagram.com/p/By-AMxEgk7U/?igshid=12pccdrqbyl5q

The 74th American Cinema Editors Awards (the Eddies) saw George Lucas introduce Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Walter Murch on stage, reuniting two industry legends who's journey together began in 1969 on Francis Ford Coppolas The Rain People (where Lucas served as an aide and Murch was in charge of Sound Montage and Re-recording) through THX-1138, mega hit American Graffiti and Murch coming up with the names for wookiees and R2-D2. https://twitter.com/AwardsDaily/status/1764428006733279529 Great to see Lucas looking in such fine fettle, and congratulations to Murch for this richly deserved honour. [amazon box="0744098823"]

Lucasfilm continue their celebration of the first blockbuster from George Lucas as they sit down with the sound designer of American Graffiti Walter Murch, who remembers his time working on THX 1138 and inadvertantly creating the name of an iconic character. “We were going through the film,” Murch continues, “working on Reel Two, and I asked the machine room operator, who had to jockey all of the reels of film, ‘Can you get R2-D2?’, meaning ‘Reel Two Dialogue Two.’ And George, who was asleep in a cardboard box behind me, suddenly woke up and said, ‘What did you say?’ I replied, ‘I didn’t say anything, go back to sleep.’ But he said, ‘No, no, you said something.’ I explained, ‘I asked for R2-D2’ and George said ‘What a great name!’ I had no idea what he meant, but that was it.” As they finished Graffiti, Lucas had been making notes for his next project, a space fantasy ultimately called Star Wars. That late night request from Murch would be the inspiration for one of the Star Wars saga’s central characters. But it was the completion and resulting success of American Graffiti that made Star Wars possible in the first place. And the cinematic achievement of the film was due in part to the innovative contributions of Walter Murch. A contemporary of George Lucas, Murch grew up in New York City, and was unfamiliar with the teenage car culture that so inspired the Californian who would become his friend and collaborator. “Our family didn’t have a television or even a car until the late ‘50s,” Murch explains. “There was a lot of public transportation. I must’ve been about 14, and a senior at our high school had graduated, and he drove up in a red MG sports car. It exploded my mind that a student could actually drive a car. This idea that there’s a world out there, the fantasy Modesto world where kids don’t exist without their car [was new to me].” [amazon box="0593597931"]

James ‘Fatty’ Potter…I collect vintage mug shots so I made this drawing of a petty thief from the 1920’s and like all drawings they are a mental journey. I realized there’s more information about Fatty than my deceased older brother Larry who left no footprint and I thought about Walter Murch whose drawings greatly influenced me when I was young because he dissolved the edges creating a magic realism and I thought about the recently discovered oldest cave art in Australia which might have been done before language was used and how the drawing is as good as any contemporary art and then my drawing was complete and my mental journey ended #artoftheday #drawing #ambiguity #waltermurch #portraitdrawing #texture #mugshot #journeyofimagination #pdxartist #portlandartist #gregoryhergert (at Southeast Portland, Portland) https://www.instagram.com/p/CTBUwp1HZiX/?utm_medium=tumblr

Return to Oz, directed by Walter Murch, 1985 (more info)