Dream Quest Images

Short description: Former American visual effects company

Dream Quest Images

Industry| Visual effects
Founded| 1979
Defunct| 2001
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]

## Contents

* 1 History
* 2 Dream Quest selected filmography
* 3 See also
* 4 References

## 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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