Is This Photo Even Real?

[ZapBrannigan]

Is this photo even real?

File:Leonard Nimoy William Shatner De Forest Kelley Star Trek 1969.JPG - Wikimedia Commons

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I ask because:
• Leonard's headshot looks carefully chosen, and retouched like a publicity portrait. I want to say Season 2, like his official portrait in The Making of Star Trek. Also, the lighting on Leonard's face doesn't match the others, although that could be the Vulcan makeup.

• Bill's face looks candid and his hair is long. It's Season 3.

• I've never seen this picture before, and it's wikicommons source is "ebay item." Hmm.

If it is a real photo, or if it was faked in 1969 by the studio and thus a "real" item today, does anybody recognize the backdrop? Was this from an episode that is slipping my mind?

 

[Metryq]

Uh... it might be real. The backdrop may not be Trek-related. But the thing that gets me is that the shirts are all exactly the same "density." Spock's and McCoy's blue shirts should look darker on B&W film. They do look like later season shirts, and maybe that material difference accounts for the B&W response.

 

[feek61]

Its real, its from "Spectre of the Gun" (hence the background). I have had this photo in my collection for many years. It is part of a series of photos of the cast in front of the same background.

 

[ZapBrannigan]

Its real, its from "Spectre of the Gun" (hence the background). I have had this photo in my collection for many years. It is part of a series of photos of the cast in front of the same background.

Thanks, @feek61. I was never going to place it.

 

[Maurice]

Yeah, we used the Spock solo pic at the end of our (IMO fantastic) article Red Skies, Red Garters about "Spectre of the Gun".

Bang. You're illogical.​