The Dykstraflex was the first digital motion control photography camera system, named after its primary developer John Dykstra. Numerous people actually...

Dykstra to supervise the new team. This led to the development of the Dykstraflex motion-controlled camera, which enabled many of the film's groundbreaking...

technology. They created a computer-controlled camera rig called the "Dykstraflex" that allowed precise repetition of camera motion, greatly facilitating...

model to match the Tantive IV's scale, but ILM convinced him that the Dykstraflex camera invented for the film made this unnecessary. Nevertheless, they...

in Star Wars (1977), where a digitally controlled camera known as the Dykstraflex performed complex and repeatable motions around stationary spaceship...

models and slowly moving cameras. The technology is now known as the Dykstraflex system. Visually, Lucas wanted Star Wars to have the "ethereal quality"...

Lucas's space epic Star Wars. A retooled VistaVision camera dubbed the Dykstraflex (named for special effects master John Dykstra) was used by the group...

film; the gaps had to be patched frame by frame for the final film. The Dykstraflex motion control system was used for filming the miniature photography...

separate model was needed for this because of the limited length of the Dykstraflex track used. That model has lights for the eleven engines to give the...

California (ILM). ILM created a digitally controlled camera known as the Dykstraflex, which performed complex and repeatable motions around stationary spaceship...