There is an assured hubris in releasing a documentary about your own company on your own streaming service – and yet, when it comes to Light & Magic, the six-part series chronicling the foundations of Industrial Light & Magic, George Lucas’ special effects company, I simply could not look away.

It is hard to fathom a world without visual effects at one’s fingertips, given their proliferation not just in film and television, but even on our mobile devices. Want to augment your face? My five-year-old can do that. But back in 1977, computer graphics were in utero, as it were. And so it was that a band of outsiders, with an ethos of scrappy make-do, created the visual effects for Star Wars.