1:42:08, a Student Film by George Lucas - Neatorama

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Ever wonder what some of the big-name Hollywood directors' pre-fame student and short films were like?

Long before Star Wars or even THX-1138 George Lucas was an ordinary USC film student. For his Senior thesis film he, along with 13 other film students, produced an 8-minute short film known as 1:42:08. The dialoge-free film follows racing driver Peter Brock as he takes a Lotus 23 through Willow Springs Raceway at full-throttle.

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The link to the video is borked, is anyone else just seeing:

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Either people are trying to push broken crap though, or Queuebot is broken.

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Someone messed up the code. :D

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ever see Peter Jackson's early stuff?! whew!

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Yeah, Queuebot has a bug - we'll get working on it pronto!

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Isn't that a Lotus 23? Nice...

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Wow Brocky was in a George Lucas film? RIP in mate.

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Jason, I'm guessing you're Australian. Different Peter Brock, not the dead Aussie touring car driver (nobody outside Australia has heard of him).

I'd say it's this one, who's very much still alive: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Brock

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Too bad Star Wars Episodes 1 to 3 weren't dialogue-free.

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Mr. BRE himself? That's an incredible find.

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aaah k, I wondered why he would be in the states when he rarely ventured outside of AUS to compete. Thanks for the heads up fnord.

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Got more info from a forum I frequent. I posted a link to this video there, and one of the fellows who saw it actually called Pete Brock and quizzed him about the video. He says it's available in the USC film library, so Bothans must have checked it out (at great personal peril) copied and returned it later.

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