To bring "Imagining the Future" up to the minute, students from Art Center periodically inhabit the display and demonstrate their work.
THX began as a 15-minute student project, Electronic Labyrinth THX1138 - 4EB (1967).
He graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design, where his 11-minute student film was a rough version of what turned into "Family Guy".
Until "Bart," his professional résumé consisted of a handful of commercials, a performance at Manhattan's Fringe Festival, an eight-minute student film at N.Y.U. and an appearance on "Law & Order".
1980's Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, which Lucas wrote but did not direct, joins his 15-minute student film Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB, made in 1967 at the University of Southern California, in the vaults.
Minnie Mouse sings the Beatles In one early five-minute student work from 1986, you have to stick your head through a circular hole in a gigantic stucture that projects from the wall, a sort of zooming pyramid.
On the disc, part of a series, is "Electronic Labyrinth," a 15-minute student short made in 1967 by George Lucas in which a running man with the numeral 4 on his chest and 1138 stamped on his forehead tries to escape totalitarian authorities, who communicate as if they were managing a space mission.
Together, the group of us watched the four-minute student film contrasting the bright tourist lights with crumbling buildings.
"A year ago, it took 90 minutes, students told us, to get financial aid," Mr. Milton said.
After a few minutes, students share their work and classmates try to guess what is being described.
