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Dream Quest Images was one of the world's best known visual effects facilities. Founded by Hoyt Yeatman III, Abdi Sami, the late Kieth Shartle, Fred Igucci, and Tom Hollister in the late 1970's, they were originally located in Culver City, California. By the late 1980's the company had settled into an obscure 50,000 quare foot facilty in in Simi Valley just in time to win back-to-back visual effect Oscars for The Abyss (1989), and Total Recall (1990).

Starting with films like Caddyshack, Escape From New York, and Bladerunner, the company grew into one of the top VFX companies in the world by the time Disney bought it in the late 1990's. Other notable films included Buckaroo Banzai, House, National Lampoon's Vacation, Twilight Zone: The Movie, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Back To School, The Fly, The Lost Boys, Toys, Con Air, The Mask, Armageddon, Mighty Joe Young, Inspector Gadget, Crimson Tide, and Mission to Mars.