Sublime

George and Gary left the next day. I found out later, when we were in Los Angeles, that George had hired us for Star Wars, or The Journal of the Whills as it was called then. I was the third person hired. First was John Barry as production designer, and then Geoffrey Unsworth as director of photography, and third was me as the set decorator (noted

George Lucas and Gary Kurtz were friends of Gloria Katz and Willard Huyck, who had recommended us for a science-fiction film the director was making. He was looking for the same ‘used’ style of sets and Twentieth Century Fox had told George Lucas that he could make the film if he made it in the UK for the budget they had allocated.