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One S, One word, No Capital F |
It's evidently a difficult thing to keep straight. I don't work for Lucasfilms. Or LucasFilm. And definitely not LucasFilms.
I do work for Lucasfilm. And Lucas Online. But not LucasArts. And not LucasBooks, though we're friends.
I work next to ILM. And that's Industrial Light & Magic, not Industrial Light and Magic. And Skywalker Sound is quite far away, but never too far to be out of touch, but it's not Sprocket Systems. JAK Films may have the same ultimate boss, but I don't work for them, and they don't work for Lucasfilm... I think. George Lucas Books is not Lucas Books.
Skywalker Properties is separate, as is LDAC. I'm not sure who LECL is anymore, though LEC is LucasArts, and we've established I don't work for LucasArts.
But I would have if this was 1991. And it's not, because THX is out on the world on its own.
Lucas Learning doesn't exist. But it did. Lucas Lumiere was something, but I'm not sure what.
Lucasfilm Animation is a whole 'nother thing, but closer to us than GLEF, and so is Lucasfilm Animation Singapore, even though it's in Singapore.
The guys at Perk Presidio don't work for us, but the guys at Javva the Hutt do. When I met my girlfriend, she worked for Food Services, and did work for Lucasfilm, and then Skywalker Properties, but nowadays, Food Services isn't part of either.
A few years ago, ILM and Skywalker Sound were Lucas Digital. I don't think Lucas Digital exists anymore, (but Letterman Digital does) since ILM and Skywalker Sound are now Lucasfilm companies. But if you looked at credits from movies in the early '90s, they were part of LucasArts... which included Lucas Licensing, but did not include Lucasfilm. But now Lucasfilm includes all of them, including LucasArts, which is technically a licensee when it comes to Star Wars and Indy.
But it's one word. Lucasfilm. One S, one word, and no capital F.
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gencrs
Technical Manuals from The GFFA
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date Posted: Feb 13, 2007 11:44 PM
That's really confusing. Thanks for clearing that up 
And that's Industrial Light & Magic, not Industrial Light and Magic.
I didn't know there was a difference.
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Pabawan
Fragments from the Mind's Eye
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date Posted: Feb 14, 2007 7:30 AM
I have noticed that a lot of people seem to think LucasArts is Lucasfilm, and that it's inclusive of everything that answers to Lucas.
My guess is because in the early 1990s, LucasArts was the big umbrella company -- licensing, publishing, ILM, Skywalker Sound was under it. Lucasfilm was strictly film production. So, if you throw in a movie from the early 1990s (say, The Hudsucker Proxy), you'll see in the credits that ILM is listed as a division of LucasArts.
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Pabawan
Fragments from the Mind's Eye
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date Posted: Feb 14, 2007 7:31 AM
Sometime in the mid-90s, the company was restructured so that LucasArts was just games. ILM and Skysound were put under Lucas Digital. That changed again recently with mostly everything falling under Lucasfilm.
I can't figure out why the early '90s version has such staying power, though.
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Jedi Master Mina
Another Galaxy, another time
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date Posted: Feb 14, 2007 7:54 AM
So, what you're really saying is that Lucasfilm has no second s and no F, but is part of ILM or Industrial Light & Magic, LucasArts and Skywalker Sound, but not Lucas books. How's that for talking in circles!! 
Aw, the world of corporate politics. Loverrrrrrly!! 
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Darth Vader
Meditation Chamber
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date Posted: Feb 14, 2007 8:04 AM
So, were you trying to make this easier for us to understand? Cause you really didn't! 
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Leland Y Chee
Keeper of the Holocron's Blog
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date Posted: Feb 14, 2007 9:30 AM
And Lucas Books should always be two words. I don't think I work for Lucas Books though I work on books with the Lucas Books imprint. I work for Lucas Licensing and Lucasfilm, but not Lucasfilm Licensing. And just a word of advice for anyone who sending a resume for a position at any of the Lucas Companies - be sure you spell the company name right (including correct capitalization) because if it's wrong, we'll notice it instantly.
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eddie
Obsessive Fanboy Eddie and his Timeline Chronicles
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date Posted: Feb 14, 2007 10:00 AM
And that's Industrial Light & Magic, not Industrial Light and Magic.
And didn't we also have Industrial Light + Magic (as is the title of the second ILM coffee-table tome).
And regarding Lucas Books, I always figures it to be LucasBooks, just like LucasArts... (I like it better when it is written as one word though)...
When can we expect a book about the history of Lucasfilm? And why doesn't Lucas Online develop a website for George Lucas Books, or is that a complete seperate entity from Lucasfilm?
I still have the Bantha Tracks-special (no. 34 I believe) with the Sprocket Systems single (wasn't it something like Distinctive by Design?)... I WANT A LUCASFILM HISTORY BOOK!!!
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rj_peters
Memos from the Imperial Finance Department
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date Posted: Feb 14, 2007 10:51 AM
Regardless of the name of the companies y'all work for, you're all lucky #######os!
Hmm, apparently the word for illegitimate child is banned. My bad. No harm intended.
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Son of a Bith
The Cantina Corner
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date Posted: Feb 14, 2007 8:58 PM
Yea, well like Air Yoda said, working for any of the George Lucas affiliated companies has to bee a pretty sweet job.
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Rainbow Droideka
Aren't you a little short for an egg?
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date Posted: Feb 15, 2007 4:02 AM
I can't figure out why the early '90s version has such staying power, though.\
I imagine it's because "LucasArts" sounds more general, like an umbrella company should - nothing about "Lucas" or "Arts" screams out "video games", and all of those companies that used to be under the label are involved in what might be called various "arts".
Interesting history lesson, by the way. I didn't know a lot of that stuff.
Hmm, apparently the word for illegitimate child is banned.
Yeah....I figured that one out recently (shameless plug alert).
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lovelucas
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date Posted: Feb 16, 2007 6:06 PM
Lions and Tigers and Bears......oh My!
and yet, the post is.....dare I say, informative and worse yet, enlightening. I learned it's Lucasfilm - no separation / never two capitals.... and yet.................
I ponder..............why is this important? except to us.
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jSarek
jSarek's Infonet
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date Posted: Feb 25, 2007 5:06 AM
::::Reads::::
::::Re-reads::::
Okay, it's official. I'm gonna need a flowchart.
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