Lincoln Enterprises bumper slides

After spending fifteen minutes in the agony booth for resurrecting an old thread, I'll attempt to set things right with the powers-that-be in creating a new thread. It was a thread I'd started, so I thought it would be OK.

(I belong to a number of forums and most would rather have old threads bumped or resurrected than having everyone start new threads on the same subject. But be that as it may - I'm not about to shake up the status quo here, but felt an explanation was in order. Please, humbly, forgive me for my threadular transgression.)

Now, on to business. I'd mentioned in the old thread that I had a number of old STAR TREK film frames from Lincoln Enterprises (Gene & Majel) that I'd mounted into slide frames and used to project onto a big screen and have some kind of TREK music in the background. It was a fun diversion in those pre-VCR days.

The old thread mentioned that the slides had largely turned to a reddish hue over the years, and went on with varying members giving advice on how to resurrect the proper color with software, etc.

For one reason or another, today, I wanted use of an old NBC bumper slide for STAR TREK. I searched the web and found only a grainy-looking one and one for the animated series. Knowing I had some in my old slide collection, I dug them out and scanned them, and thought I'd share them with some fellow Trek-fans here. (Little did I know that I'd have to do it twice!)

So here they are, three bumper slides that NBC used during commercial breaks, station identification, etc. The yellow titles are obviously from Season 1 and/or two. The two blue ones hail from the third season.







Harry

 

Continued from here:
http://www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=78253

(y'know, just in case there's any old information in that thread that might be useful. which tends to happen every once in a while on the internet. but it's y'all's server load, so.)

 

Those are really neat, HGN!

I remember well (and miss) those days of broadcast tv: "We will return after station identification", "And now, a word from our sponsor." and all that. I even miss the stations going off the air late at night! It made late night as a kid seem like a weird, creepy time when the world shut down! Nowadays it has all the atmosphere of a 24 hour convenience store (and our local one used to close at 10 p.m.)...hard to imagine, now.

Stuff like yours never gets old to me!

Although I do follow the rules (I'm that kind of guy), I do question the logic of defining a thread as "old" when the topic at hand is about a fifty year old show. I think Spock might question it, too. But, it is what it is...

I look forward to whatever other gems you post!!

This concludes our broadcast day.... (insert National Anthem)

 

I was glad to see the old thread resurrected, since I recently discovered I still have my old Lincoln Enterprises film clips (all three of them) and was wondering whether there were something I might do with them (e.g. donate them to someone for restoration). I think that thread contained useful info, and I wasn't sure how to find it.

 

I bought a bunch of those clips in the mid 70s and mounted them as slides. Lots of fun. No idea what happened to them. :/

 

I seem to remember a Lincoln Enterprises catalogue, of sorts, where this kind of stuff could be ordered. However, I don't recall where it came from. Where did you guys get yours? Time has buried this memory for me.

 

I think I got my catalog by writing to an address that David Gerrold cited in one of his books, either The Trouble with Tribbles or The World of Star Trek, both from 1973. I think he put the address in a footnote.

 

I seem to recall sending for the catalog by mailing my address in response to an ad in something - CONCORDANCE maybe?

[Edit: Yeah, it was probably Gerrold's books.]

Once on the mailing list, I'd get a catalog every few weeks or months. They had grab-bags where you could get a number of the film trims with random subjects. Over a year or two, I assembled a near complete set with most episodes represented by a slide. Some had a lot, some had very few, and there were always a number that I couldn't identify - just a close-up of McCoy or Kirk against an unidentifiable background - at least it was back then. Remember, all we had to go on was the original NBC broadcasts and the beginnings of the show running in syndication, so our experience with the episodes was limited.

Then there were slides sold at the conventions. These were professionally-made slides and these have held their color over the years. I would buy some of those to fill in my collection for important shots that I hadn't gotten by sheer luck in the grab bags.

I still have a box of blank mounts for those 35mm slide trims!

Harry

 

I think I just got my three film clips as part of some kind of grab-bag bonus of decals and various other things that came along with one of my orders. I guess maybe they were trying to get rid of excess stuff that year.

 

I remember that, but not sure which book. That must have been how I ordered the catalog.

It was a crude, typed copy of a copy of a copy. Illustrations were either hand drawn or copies of photographs. They could have been either, as bad as my copy looked.

I got the film clips and the set of 3 insignia patches. I couldn't afford anything else at the time. I must have lost the catalog after that because I never ordered anything else.

 

I did a lot of ordering from Lincoln back in the day. I've still got some of the slide clips (I'll have to restore them in Photoshop) and a stack of old "Inside Trek" fanzines, dating back to the latter part of the second season. I'd almost forgotten about 'em!

 

Those are great Harry; thanks! Glad you decided to start a new thread after the old one was closed.

Would you please post a large version of your avatar? VHS quality or no, I love this kind of vintage NBC / Trek stuff.

 

Ah, yes. That was it! I don't recall having ordered anything, however, probably because I feared further ridicule if any of my schoolmates found out about it. Fun times.

That makes me think of those clear plastic bags with three comic books in them. The kind where you didn't know what comic was in the middle until you opened it...only to discover it was an issue of Devil Dinosaur or something.

 

I'm curious where these film frames came from. Were they from actual episodes or maybe unused footage or extra copies? I wonder why anyone would butcher original Star Trek episodes.

 

Not to mention an extra 10 minutes of each episode!!

 

Yeah, and back when a pond of coffee was actually a pound, and ice cream actually a gallon, etc. God, I'm sounding like an old-timer.

 

Unused footage that was trimmed out during editing -- literally the leavings on the cutting room floor, like the beginning of a shot with the clapboard being used and the actors waiting for action to be called, or extra frames shaved off of the start or end of a shot. Probably some unused or failed takes in there as well. I gather that Roddenberry collected and saved those discarded bits of film and sold them as memorabilia. A lot of them are behind-the-scenes shots with clapboards in view or actors out of character before or after a take.

 

Ask and you shall receive. Here's a bigger screen cap of my avatar:



Harry

 

I get a sense that not a lot of people realize that in Season One of STAR TREK, the "Next Voyage" screen with the Enterprise in view was not used on its original NBC run. Those were edited onto the first season trailers during the syndication run. When NBC was promoting what was coming up in next week's show, they simply superimposed the words "NEXT WEEK" as the trailer began. One of my slides illustrates that:



Here are three semi-random slides I worked on quickly this morning. I felt fortunate to find any Enterprise shots in the grab bags of film trims. Two are shown here - one in the Tholian Web and one surrounded by Romulans (using Klingon design) in "The Enterprise Incident". Another one I always liked was Deela looking in the mirror where we see Captain Kirk.







Harry

 

Thanks Harry!

Again, these rarities from the original NBC airings are great. Very little of the original "Next Week" titles seems to have survived -- save for a handful of clips like yours -- and I don't think I've ever seen a full trailer with the original "Next Week" title. Don't know if it's still there or not, but YouTube had an aircheck of the NBC rerun of Space Seed, but there was no "Next Week" trailer. =(

If I'm not mistaken the "Next Voyage" titles began with the original NBC airing of S3. There is a consistent very brief music cue accompanying the Enterprise "whoosh" visual (by the way, where is that cue on the LLL score set?) well-edited on every trailer. "Next Week" was used on the original airings of S1 & S2 and then replaced with "Next Voyage" in syndication (and the home video releases of course), where the slow turning Enterprise visual is crudely played over the original "Next Week" audio (i.e. you can hear the original background audio where the "Next Week" used to be).

I think all of the examples of "Next Week" clips I have seen are from S1, so I have no visual proof that this was the case with S2 as well (and I've never seen "Next Week" used on S3), but based on the existing trailers it makes sense this was how it worked.