As I mentioned the other day, great work. This is an excellent resource. After looking over the remastered shots the past year, it's cool to come back and realize how good these original images are. And there's actually more of them than I'd previously thought. Thanks for all this.
Mark
It's been interesting to see what a solid base they laid down with enough stock to get them through the first season, followed by "filling in the gaps" in season two. They also went for more dramatic shots in two, I think.
It has been a great relief to finish this tinged with the realization that I'll have to do it again when I get TOS on Blu Ray.
I'm impressed. Interesting project. I was wondering if a compliation has been done showing the original shots vs the new fx-remastered shots. I know trekmovie.com did articles on the different episodes but they are not in one convenient indexed place like this analysis is. Anyone considered a definitive old vs new shot comparison?
This project underlines a great challenge that the Remastered team faced. Should they just re-do these 62 shots and insert them as appropriate? Or should they take a more modern sensibility where a new episode gets a new shot. But really, how many ways can the Enterprise fly past the camera? (And now we know: Six.
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TrekMovie posted comparison video up on YouTube, I think. That's the sort of project that I'm interested enough to see someone else do, but not interested enough to do myself. (Same goes for the Galaxy Class, before someone asks.)
The Star Trek Compendium by Allan Asherman lists which FX house did which episode (and maybe Memory Alpha does too, though I'm not certain), so you could probably figure it out from the debut episode of each shot.
EDIT: And oh yeah, I forgot to say, this is a terrific resource -- thanks for putting it together. I do hope it ends up on a permanent site.
That's an interesting notion. I'll have to check it out.
I'm glad you like it. I have hopes for finding it a permanent home.
But to complicate matters further, I'm pretty sure elements were shared between houses in times of crunchNcrisis, so you might see an E element shot by Anderson reemployed by VanDerVeer for an episode credited to the latter ... and maybe that got messed with by printing it with cyan or simply by a different process (there was aerial image printing as well as more traditional optical printing, and I suppose in a pinch you could do some downNdirty contact printing though you'd wind up with a flopped image.)
This is an insanely wonderful undertaking, and I'm just as impressed with the enthusiastic response to it as I am the effort involved in creating such a resource. Kudos!
Also ... if the original film elements ever turned up, this could be a useful resource for a future alternate HD Trek, where the original elements would be recomped in a cleaner fashion ... we could get TOS Trek that didn't resort to the different color and density values that (for me) mar the tos-R stuff to the point of unwatchability.
Thanks. Yes, this is the sort of nuts and bolts production knowledge I just don't have. I had to wonder, did it cost money to use a ready to go stock shot? I was curious because The Menagerie part II and Turnabout Intruder (two notoriously cash strapped eps) don't even use stock shots!
I did notice that a perfectly servicable tried and true shot like Tilted Approach would suddenly look pretty ragged for a few episodes, but then spring back better than ever.
This is utterly fantastic, I hope it gets featured at some site for all its hard work!
It shows my Trek geekness that I recognized those shots with a smile!
A was walking past the Art Asylum Enterprise I have in the box the other day and mentally ticked off my names for all of the shots on the box. It's a sickness, I tell ya.
OH! It's not the permanent website I'm hoping for, but the whole deal can be found in these two documents here and here:
http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AfGjMA5KY3SOZGZuZnc4Yl85Z3R2M2NkZzU&hl=en
http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AfGjMA5KY3SOZGZuZnc4Yl81aGJwbTk1Z2M&hl=en
