After he left the University of Southern California's film school in 1968, George Lucas says, he would have been content to make a living pursuing documentaries, educational projects or industrial movies. He was even willing to work on films for the United States Information Agency while creating small avant-garde pictures on his own time.But there was no way he was going to work in Los Angeles.
The Modesto native decided to succeed or fail as a filmmaker in the Bay Area, which at the time had no film studios, almost no support structure and few commercial moviemaking prospects. Lucas remembers he was working on Francis Ford Coppola's "The Rain People" when his colleague and friend came up with a possible solution...
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