Universal Hartland Visual Effects - History

History

Universal Hartland started work on Universal's feature Buck Rogers in the 25st Century, in the former Future General facilities in Marina Del Ray. In August 1978, they moved production to a newly created studion owned facility North Hollywood and settled on Hartland Street (Hence Universal Hartland). This was around the same time that Industrial Light & Magiccrew started working on Battlestar Galactica. During episode two, Universal's management decided move Battlestar Galactica to their Universal Hartland facility. For the next three years the studio created all of the visual effects for Buck Rogers and Battelstar Galactica. It would also work on The Concorde ... Airport '79, Cheech & Chong's Next Movie, Cosmos, The Nude Bomb, The Thing and model effects for Disney, ABC and NASA.

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