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Patricia "Patty" Blau Price (16 August 195517 September 2019; age 64) was a senior staff member of Industrial Light & Magic who worked as effects manager on the pre-production of the Star Trek: The Next Generation first season episode "Encounter at Farpoint". In 1994 Blau Price was the executive in charge of production during the miniature crash sequence filmed by ILM for Star Trek Generations and in 1996 an ILM senior staff member during the production of Star Trek: First Contact.

Blau Price was employed by ILM from the early 1980s on. Her first credit as production secretary was in 1980 on The Empire Strikes Back followed by credits as production and location coordinator on Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Return of the Jedi (1983), The NeverEnding Story (1984), Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984), Starman (1984), and The Goonies (1985).

Following work as visual effects producer and coordinator on Batteries Not Included (1987), Willow (1988), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), Back to the Future Part III (1990, starring Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson and Thomas F. Wilson), and The Rocketeer (1991, starring William O. Campbell), Blau Price became the executive in charge of production for ILM on Death Becomes Her (1992), Jurassic Park (1993), Wolf (1994), and Forrest Gump (1994).

As ILM senior staff member, Blau Price also contributed to films such as Congo (1995), Jumanji (1995), 101 Dalmatians (1996), Daylight (1996), The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), Men in Black (1997), Starship Troopers (1997), Mercury Rising (1998), Magnolia (1999), Planet of the Apes (2001), and Minority Report (2002).

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