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Subject: Re: Special Effects in The Right Stuff - (nf)
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Date: Sat, 12-Nov-83 04:28:59 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov 12 04:28:59 1983
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uiuccsb!eich    Nov 11 22:32:00 1983

ILM did not "originally do them" (the sfx).  ILM had too tight a
schedule to consider them (first with Star Trek II + Poltergeist + ET,
then with Return of the Jedi).  Phil Kaufman from the start was in
favor of seat-of-the-pants, low-tech effects.