Missing 32" Enterprise finally found...

[publiusr]

Thank you. I was looking at it thinking "Has the bridge been squashed on that picture all this time and I'm only JUST NOW noticing?"

It didn’t looked squashed to me.

The “dome” the bridge-B/C deck rests upon was always flat—the underside too, originally.

My vision isn’t the best.

 

[Tallguy]

It didn’t looked squashed to me.

The “dome” the bridge-B/C deck rests upon was always flat—the underside too, originally.

My vision isn’t the best.

We're talking about the image in the video where the photo has been colorized, most likely by AI tools, and the bridge is largely missing.

 

[Warped9]

^^ And the saucer hull scripting is askew. If you check the other photo of Roddenberry holding the model aloft while showing it to Jefferey Hunter you’ll see the trailing of the dorsal where it meets the saucer is distorted as well.

 

[TIN_MAN]

I wonder if the pictures were altered on purpose in subtle ways, perhaps in an attempt to avoid copy right issues?

 

[David cgc]

I wonder if the pictures were altered on purpose in subtle ways, perhaps in an attempt to avoid copy right issues?

That's a thought. I've seen a lot of accounts that just post clips from TV shows or movies add crappy music, lens flares, fake VHS static, and randomly mirroring and un-mirroring the scene in order to keep from being taken down by copyright bots. I don't think it applies in this case, but it could be an explanation for heavy, heavy post-processing that distorts the photo all over.