HARRY LANGE

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Publication: The Independent - London

Date: 2008-08-21 00:00:00

Oscar-nominated film designer

HARRY LANGE moved from working for Nasa to being a production designer on films, including Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968 ) and the first three entries in the Star Wars franchise.

Teams of modellers spent months building Lange's designs for Kubrick's film and Douglas Trumball, who led them, said the models were "probably the most precisely detailed ever constructed for a film". Lange said, "They had to be designed as if they could travel to the edge of the solar system and beyond." Despite the ...

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