Skywalker Sound
Skywalker Sound is the American sound effects, sound editing, sound design, sound mixing and music recording division of Lucasfilm. Founded in 1975, the company's main facilities are located at George Lucas's Skywalker Ranch in Lucas Valley, near Nicasio, California.- Type: Business
- Description: sound division of Lucasfilm
- Also known as: “Technical Building”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Skywalker Ranch.
Skywalker Ranch
Residential area
Skywalker Ranch is a movie ranch and the workplace of film director, writer and producer George Lucas located in a secluded area near Nicasio, California, in Marin County. Skywalker Ranch is situated 1,400 feet southwest of Skywalker Sound.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Forest Knolls and Lagunitas.
Forest Knolls
Hamlet
Photo: Gorthian, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Forest Knolls is an unincorporated community in Marin County, California. It is located 9 miles southwest of Novato, at an elevation of 249 feet. For census purposes, Forest Knolls is aggregated with Lagunitas into the census-designated place Lagunitas-Forest Knolls. Forest Knolls is situated 4 miles southwest of Skywalker Sound.
Lagunitas
Hamlet
Photo: Gorthian, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Lagunitas is an unincorporated community in Marin County, California. It is located 10 miles southwest of Novato, at an elevation of 217 feet. Lagunitas is aggregated with Forest Knolls by the U.S. Census into the census-designated place Lagunitas-Forest Knolls. Lagunitas is situated 5 miles southwest of Skywalker Sound.
Novato
Photo: Frank Schulenburg, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Novato is a sprawling suburb in Marin County in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. Novato is in the transition zone between the patchwork of suburban Marin County towns, long oriented towards San Francisco and the bay, and the wineries and pastureland of Sonoma County to the north.
Skywalker Sound
- Categories: recording studio, building, and office
- Location: Marin County, California, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
38.06449° or 38° 3′ 52″ northLongitude
-122.64642° or 122° 38′ 47″ westOpen location code
84CV3973+QCOpenStreetMap ID
way 120347026OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
office=companyWikidata ID
Q2703822
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Urdu—“Skywalker Sound” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Skywalker Sound”
- Catalan: “Skywalker Sound”
- Chinese: “Skywalker Sound”
- Chinese: “天行者音效”
- Danish: “Skywalker Sound”
- Danish: “SkywalkerSound”
- Dutch: “Skywalker Sound”
- French: “Skywalker Sound”
- German: “Skywalker Sound”
- Italian: “Skywalker Sound”
- Japanese: “スカイウォーカー・サウンド”
- Japanese: “スカイウォーカーサウンド”
- Korean: “스카이워커 사운드”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Skywalker Sound”
- Norwegian: “Skywalker Sound”
- Persian: “اسکایواکر سوند”
- Portuguese: “Skywalker Sound”
- Romanian: “Skywalker Sound”
- Russian: “Skywalker Sound”
- Spanish: “Skywalker Sound”
- Swedish: “Skywalker sound”
- Swedish: “Skywalker Sound”
- Ukrainian: “Skywalker Sound”
- Urdu: “اسکائی واکر ساؤنڈ”
- “Skywalker Sound”
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