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Look at Life (film)
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Wikipedia article
'Look at Life' is a 1965 one-minute[https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/politics-behind-original-star-wars/ The Politics Behind the Original "Star Wars" - Los Angeles Review of Books] short student film by George Lucas, produced for a course in animation while Lucas was a film student at USC Film School.[https://slate.com/culture/2012/03/george-lucass-6-18-67-freiheit-look-at-life-watch-the-star-wars-directors-first-films.html George Lucas's '6-18-67,' 'Freheit,' 'Look at Life': Watch the 'Star Wars' director's first films - Slate Magazine] The film's running time of exactly one minute was required by the course. This was the first film made by George Lucas,[https://achievement.org/achiever/george-lucas/ George Lucas|Academy of Achievement] and was heavily influenced by Canadian filmmaker Arthur Lipsett.[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/film/star-wars-the-force-awakens/finn-john-boyega-george-lucas-fn-2187/ FN-2187: why John Boyega's stormtropper number holds the key to Star Wars - The Telegraph]
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',[https://vimeo.com/7826694 A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope posted officially by Gary Lava on Vimeo] 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
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