Enterprise Restoration Blog Update 9/2015 - With New Photo from 1964
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Re: Enterprise Restoration Blog Update 9/2015 - With New Photo from 19
Well, CNN has still not realized their blunder, because the picture of the Enterprise D is still on the Entertainment Main Page. N00bs....
OT, I really hope they share any "newly found" pictures with the fan community. I love seeing behind the scenes pictures.
Well, CNN has still not realized their blunder, because the picture of the Enterprise D is still on the Entertainment Main Page. N00bs....
OT, I really hope they share any "newly found" pictures with the fan community. I love seeing behind the scenes pictures.
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So a bit of behind-the-scenes... you've probably all seen the original roll out photo with the model builders standing behind the Enterprise. Think 1964. Think rolls of film (not digital). They didn't just take one picture - they used up the roll.
Re these pics - we REALLY need pics from when it was on display after the show, at "Space Week" at Golden West college. That's the missing timeframe. We actually have many pics during shooting (most of which are copywrite and cannot be released) but that timeframe, especially in color, would be most helpful.
So a bit of behind-the-scenes... you've probably all seen the original roll out photo with the model builders standing behind the Enterprise. Think 1964. Think rolls of film (not digital). They didn't just take one picture - they used up the roll.
Re these pics - we REALLY need pics from when it was on display after the show, at "Space Week" at Golden West college. That's the missing timeframe. We actually have many pics during shooting (most of which are copywrite and cannot be released) but that timeframe, especially in color, would be most helpful.
Re: Enterprise Restoration Blog Update 9/2015 - With New Photo from 19
Gotta love the ironic title of the article - Boldy Go and Check Your Photos".
Gotta love the ironic title of the article - Boldy Go and Check Your Photos".
Re: Enterprise Restoration Blog Update 9/2015 - With New Photo from 19
Here come ol' starship,
She come groovin' up slowly...
(Hey, it's better than the one that CNN used....)
Here come ol' starship,
She come groovin' up slowly...
(Hey, it's better than the one that CNN used....)
Re: Enterprise Restoration Blog Update 9/2015 - With New Photo from 19
Is this the same model that's been on display in the basement level of the gift shop in the Air & Space Museum recently? I haven't been there in a few months. I was surprised to find it in such an odd location.
Is this the same model that's been on display in the basement level of the gift shop in the Air & Space Museum recently? I haven't been there in a few months. I was surprised to find it in such an odd location.
Re: Enterprise Restoration Blog Update 9/2015 - With New Photo from 19
Yes, it's the original 11-foot filming miniature. The article discusses the various places the Smithsonian has displayed it since acquiring it. The gift shop basement was where it was when I saw it a few years ago, though I also saw it on a school trip sometime in the '80s, back while it was still more prominently displayed.
Yes, it's the original 11-foot filming miniature. The article discusses the various places the Smithsonian has displayed it since acquiring it. The gift shop basement was where it was when I saw it a few years ago, though I also saw it on a school trip sometime in the '80s, back while it was still more prominently displayed.
Re: Enterprise Restoration Blog Update 9/2015 - With New Photo from 19
Me-TV did better than CNN...looks like they used the CGI version of the right ship (which makes sense, because they air the remastered series).
Me-TV did better than CNN...looks like they used the CGI version of the right ship (which makes sense, because they air the remastered series).
Re: Enterprise Restoration Blog Update 9/2015 - With New Photo from 19
That was my first thought too. I suppose the model was insured, but I wonder if anyone thought to add auto collision to the policy. The shadows in the road are probably the guys in the photo, standing guard.
How about the foretelling license plate on the Ford sedan - PAU 030. Was this another Vulcan visitation on Earth after Carbon Creek? A relative of T'PAU?
That was my first thought too. I suppose the model was insured, but I wonder if anyone thought to add auto collision to the policy. The shadows in the road are probably the guys in the photo, standing guard.
How about the foretelling license plate on the Ford sedan - PAU 030. Was this another Vulcan visitation on Earth after Carbon Creek? A relative of T'PAU?
Re: Enterprise Restoration Blog Update 9/2015 - With New Photo from 19
According to the text commentary by the Okudas for The Trouble With Tribbles on the original DVD season 2 release taht is the case. I'm not sure of their source, but they're usually accurate, so unless someone comes up with a specific S3 shot that contradicts it's probably true.
According to the text commentary by the Okudas for The Trouble With Tribbles on the original DVD season 2 release taht is the case. I'm not sure of their source, but they're usually accurate, so unless someone comes up with a specific S3 shot that contradicts it's probably true.
Re: Enterprise Restoration Blog Update 9/2015 - With New Photo from 19
As documented on this page, there is at least one shot not seen until the third season, there designated as "Lower Sensor (That Which Survives - Let That Be Your Last Battlefield)". Author of the page William P. “Tallguy” Thomas says this:
As documented on this page, there is at least one shot not seen until the third season, there designated as "Lower Sensor (That Which Survives - Let That Be Your Last Battlefield)". Author of the page William P. “Tallguy” Thomas says this:
Re: Enterprise Restoration Blog Update 9/2015 - With New Photo from 19
Probably because it was the only new FX shot to appear in the 3rd season, and it seems unlikely that they would've bothered to go to the trouble and expense of doing new miniature photography for a single shot. So it stands to reason that it was a leftover shot from some season 2 session.
Probably because it was the only new FX shot to appear in the 3rd season, and it seems unlikely that they would've bothered to go to the trouble and expense of doing new miniature photography for a single shot. So it stands to reason that it was a leftover shot from some season 2 session.
Re: Enterprise Restoration Blog Update 9/2015 - With New Photo from 19
Yes, that does seem most likely. But hearing if he actually had a source vs. just made the assumption would be useful.
Yes, that does seem most likely. But hearing if he actually had a source vs. just made the assumption would be useful.
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^If he had a source, he probably wouldn't have said "I suspect."
^If he had a source, he probably wouldn't have said "I suspect."
Re: Enterprise Restoration Blog Update 9/2015 - With New Photo from 19
Yes, clearly. But we still don't know for sure either way on either question.
Yes, clearly. But we still don't know for sure either way on either question.
Re: Enterprise Restoration Blog Update 9/2015 - With New Photo from 19
Of course, it used to hang in the "History of Flight" exhibit throughout the 80s, then went off-display at the end of 1991 - much to my annoyance in January 1992 - so that it could be (controversially) renovated/restored to celebrate the 25th anniversary of TOS the next September.
I can certainly understand the thinking re display. There were no doubt many Smithsonian visitors who questioned a fictitious spaceship being in the "History of Flight" exhibit and then, in the restoration, the discovery that it was no longer suited to hanging from the ceiling, unsupported from underneath.
Finding ways to bring visitors into museum gift stores has long been the subject of numerous board meetings. Placing the Enterprise in the gift store, alongside a then-massive display of TOS anniversary tie-in merchandise, made plenty of sense in 1992.
When I last visited in 2013, the bottom level of the giftstore was roped off, but only because there was only one staff member on duty that early. She was fine with me going down the stairs. (I knew what I was looking for, after all). She also told me that Museum staff were then-only-recently standing around the model discussing the need for a more appropriate location, so everything seems to be unfolding to plan!
USS Enterprise at Smithsonian, 1984 by Ian McLean, on Flickr
USS Enterprise at Smithsonian, 1984 by Ian McLean, on Flickr
USS Enterprise at Smithsonian, 1984 by Ian McLean, on Flickr
USS Enterprise at the Smithsonian, 2013, now supported from below by Ian McLean, on Flickr
USS Enterprise at the Smithsonian, 2013 by Ian McLean, on Flickr
USS Enterprise - cloaked! by Ian McLean, on Flickr
Of course, it used to hang in the "History of Flight" exhibit throughout the 80s, then went off-display at the end of 1991 - much to my annoyance in January 1992 - so that it could be (controversially) renovated/restored to celebrate the 25th anniversary of TOS the next September.
I can certainly understand the thinking re display. There were no doubt many Smithsonian visitors who questioned a fictitious spaceship being in the "History of Flight" exhibit and then, in the restoration, the discovery that it was no longer suited to hanging from the ceiling, unsupported from underneath.
Finding ways to bring visitors into museum gift stores has long been the subject of numerous board meetings. Placing the Enterprise in the gift store, alongside a then-massive display of TOS anniversary tie-in merchandise, made plenty of sense in 1992.
When I last visited in 2013, the bottom level of the giftstore was roped off, but only because there was only one staff member on duty that early. She was fine with me going down the stairs. (I knew what I was looking for, after all). She also told me that Museum staff were then-only-recently standing around the model discussing the need for a more appropriate location, so everything seems to be unfolding to plan!
USS Enterprise at Smithsonian, 1984 by Ian McLean, on Flickr
USS Enterprise at Smithsonian, 1984 by Ian McLean, on Flickr
USS Enterprise at Smithsonian, 1984 by Ian McLean, on Flickr
USS Enterprise at the Smithsonian, 2013, now supported from below by Ian McLean, on Flickr
USS Enterprise at the Smithsonian, 2013 by Ian McLean, on Flickr
USS Enterprise - cloaked! by Ian McLean, on Flickr
Re: Enterprise Restoration Blog Update 9/2015 - With New Photo from 19
I hope this time she looks right after they are finished.
I've always felt that a model of that size could have been used to excellent effect in feature films, such as in my hypothetical "what if a Trek movie had been made in the 60s" idea.
Kor
I hope this time she looks right after they are finished.
I've always felt that a model of that size could have been used to excellent effect in feature films, such as in my hypothetical "what if a Trek movie had been made in the 60s" idea.
Kor
Re: Enterprise Restoration Blog Update 9/2015 - With New Photo from 19
I think it would probably depend on how it was shot. It probably wouldn't hold up real close in shots.
I think it would probably depend on how it was shot. It probably wouldn't hold up real close in shots.
