This week has been crazy busy with many projects, including work on the Super Baltar lenses I showed you last week. Along with my fellow members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences History and Technology Subcommittee, we have been preparing the Dykstraflex for its appearance at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures starting May the 4th for their Across the Galaxy Celebration. Starting on May 4th and continuing through July 8th, the Dykstraflex motion control camera system used to film the effects shot for the original Star Wars trilogy and many other ILM projects, will be on display at the museum where they will have periodic demonstrations of the system in operation. I, along with many others on the subcommittee, have been working on and off on the restoration of the Dykstraflex for many years now. My work started in earnest in 2017, and I am excited to see everyone’s hard work culminate in this public demonstration of this groundbreaking piece of motion picture technology. While I am busy today helping with final preparations for moving the Dflex to the museum, I thought it would be fun to share a video tour of the showroom at CinemaGear.
