Company:Dream Quest Images

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Short description: Former American visual effects company
Dream Quest Images
IndustryVisual effects
Founded1979
Defunct2001
Headquarters
  • Culver City, California (1982-1989)
  • Simi Valley, California (1989-2000)
  • Burbank, California (2000-2001)
Key people
Hoyt Yeatman, Fred Iguchi, Tom Hollister

Dream Quest Images, later known as The Secret Lab, was an American visual effects company, co-founded in 1979 by Hoyt Yeatman, Scott Squires, Ohio native Rocco Gioffre, Fred Iguchi, Tom Hollister and Bob Hollister.[1]

History

After early piecemeal work on Escape from New York, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, and One From the Heart,[1] Dream Quest expanded operations and earned back-to-back visual effects Oscars for work on The Abyss and Total Recall.[2][3]

In 1996, Dream Quest was purchased by The Walt Disney Company.[4][5] While Disney began development on Dinosaur, they decided to fold Dream Quest into Walt Disney Feature Animation and subsequently renamed it "The Secret Lab" in 1999.[2][6]

After The Secret Lab did the visuals of the 2000 animated film Dinosaur, a shuttering process begun, started by cancelling the animated film the studio was doing with Walt Disney Feature Animation, Wildlife.[7] The Secret Lab closed its doors in 2001,[2] but it only shut down once its artists finished their work on Reign of Fire and Kangaroo Jack.[8][9]

Dream Quest selected filmography

Year Films
1981
  • Evilspeak
1982
  • One from the Heart
  • Blade Runner
1983
  • V (TV miniseries)
  • Twilight Zone: The Movie
  • National Lampoon's Vacation
  • Deal of the Century
1984
  • V: The Final Battle (TV miniseries)
  • Gremlins
  • Best Defense
  • The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
  • Dreamscape
  • The Ratings Game
1985
  • The Stuff
  • D.A.R.Y.L.
  • Pee-wee's Big Adventure
  • National Lampoon's European Vacation
  • Better Off Dead
  • Amazing Stories (TV episodes 1-23)
1986
  • House
  • Short Circuit
  • Captain EO (Disney theme park film)
1987
  • A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
  • House II
  • Predator
  • The Lost Boys
  • Real Men
  • The Hidden
1988
  • The Blob
  • A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
  • Earth Girls Are Easy
  • Moonwalker
  • Scrooged
  • Phantasm II
1989
  • Warlock
  • The Abyss
  • Fat Man and Little Boy
  • National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
1990
  • The Exorcist III
  • Total Recall
1991
  • Defending Your Life
  • Hot Shots!
  • Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
  • Grand Canyon
1992
  • Freejack
  • Final Analysis
  • Hero
  • Toys
1993
  • Robin Hood: Men in Tights
  • The Three Musketeers
1994
  • The Crow
  • Wyatt Earp
  • Little Big League
  • The Mask
  • Earth 2
  • The Swan Princess
  • The Bible: Jacob (TV miniseries, TNT) ("Jacob's Ladder" segment)
1995
  • Crimson Tide
  • Waterworld
  • Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
  • Dracula: Dead and Loving It
  • JAG (TV series)
  • The Bible: Moses (TV miniseries, TNT) ("burning bush", "snakes in Pharaoh's palace", "plagues of Egypt" and "crossing the Red Sea" segments)
1996
  • Shaughnessy (television film)
  • Alien Nation: Millennium (television film)
  • Primal Fear
  • Heaven's Prisoners
  • The Arrival
  • The Rock
  • Rolling Thunder
1997
  • Jungle 2 Jungle
  • Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves
  • Con Air
  • George Of The Jungle
  • Flubber
  • Kundun
1998
  • Deep Rising
  • Six Days and Seven Nights
  • Armageddon
  • Mighty Joe Young
1999
  • My Favorite Martian
  • Instinct
  • Inspector Gadget
  • The Sixth Sense
  • Stigmata
  • Bicentennial Man
2000
  • Mission to Mars
  • Dinosaur (First animated film; credited as The Secret Lab)
  • Shanghai Noon
  • 102 Dalmatians
2001
  • Planet of the Apes
2002
  • Reign of Fire
2003
  • Kangaroo Jack

See also

  • Animation studios owned by The Walt Disney Company

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Richardson, Mark A. (April 1983). "A Dream in the Making". Cinefex (Riverside, California: Cinefex LLC.) (12). ISSN 0198-1056. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Graser, Marc (2001-10-23). "Disney can't keep Secret". Variety. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117854767. 
  3. ↑ Swartz, Kirsten Lee (1991-02-25). "SIMI VALLEY : Oscar to Honor Special Effects Firm". http://articles.latimes.com/print/1991-02-25/local/me-1435_1_special-effects. 
  4. ↑ Reed, Mack (1996-04-19). "Disney Buys Dream Quest, Says Firm to Leave Simi". http://articles.latimes.com/print/1996-04-19/local/me-60113_1_simi-valley. 
  5. ↑ "Disney buys Dream Quest Images". UPI. April 18, 1996. https://www.upi.com/Archives/1996/04/18/Disney-buys-Dream-Quest-Images/8905829800000/. 
  6. ↑ "The Death of THE SECRET LAB / DREAM QUEST IMAGES Fx Company... The Story from the Inside! REIGN OF FIRE!". Ain't It Cool News. July 10, 2002. http://legacy.aintitcool.com/node/12700. 
  7. ↑ DiOrio, Carl (September 25, 2000). "Inside Move: Disney kills 'Wildlife' pic". Variety. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117786905/. 
  8. ↑ "The Death of THE SECRET LAB / DREAM QUEST IMAGES Fx Company The Story from the Inside! REIGN OF...". July 10, 2002. http://legacy.aintitcool.com/node/12700. 
  9. ↑ Hill, Jim (2003-01-14). "The sad tale of Disney's Secret Lab". https://jimhillmedia.com/editor_in_chief1/b/jim_hill/archive/2003/01/15/224.aspx. 



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