The first time I came across the name "Industrial Light and Magic" -- George Lucas' premier visual effects company -- was at about the age of ten, in the dirty and tattered pages of a magazine, whose name I can't recall. The article was about how "ILM" had done the visual trickery in Robert Zemeckis' seminal 1985 film "Back To The Future". There were pages missing and I didn't know then that "Industrial Light and Magic" was the name of a company. As a result, at the tender age of ten, I surmised that the visual effects had been created with actual industrial lighting -- huge, immensely bright lights -- and magic. Magic as in, that mysterious art practiced by witches and wizards, in fairytales. I was ten! I sometimes cringe and chuckle to myself when I recall that gross misinterpretation.
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