Herbie (film)

Herbie
Herbie
Directed by	George Lucas; Paul Golding
Written by	George Lucas; Paul Golding
Cinematography	George Lucas; Paul Golding
Edited by	George Lucas; Paul Golding
Music by	Herbie Hancock
Distributed by	University of Southern California
Release date	1966;
Running time	3 minutes
Country	United States

Herbie is a short 16mm black and white movie by George Lucas and Paul Golding made in 1966 as part of their USC film school course. It is an abstract film with no story and no actors that depicts the reflections of moving light streaks and light flashes from traffic at night. It is set to a piece of jazz music the filmmakers misattributed to Herbie Hancock, whose first name was used for the title.^[1] The actual piece of music is “Basin Street Blues,” performed by the Miles Davis Quintet, and led by Hancock’s predecessor Victor Feldman.^[2]

References

^ Fensch, Thomas, Films on the Campus, A.S. Barnes & Co, New York, 1970, ISBN 0-498-07428-5.
^ Jones, Brian Jay (2016). George Lucas: a life (First ed.). New York: Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 978-0-316-25744-2. OCLC 946216508.