Very cool, Therin! What are your plans regarding the other sheets?
No idea yet.
Are they all still in the same condition they were in when you bought them?
You reckon I'm the kinda guy to trash something Star Trek?
They've been lying flat in their envelope since buying them, with only the odd peek since 1990.
I do intend to have a play with these. Scanners are certainly better than they used to be; I've worked on a few other contact sheets in recent years. There are some great stills of the aliens, the "wing walk", Ilia helping Chekov's pain, Spock and the airlock technician, someone's birthday party, Kirk and Scott in the shuttle - and some great shots of engineering extras resting on slant boards between scenes. Scanners are certainly better than they used to be; I've worked on a few other contact sheets in recent years.
I was let down by a TV studio once, who sent me tiny b/w stills as a contact sheet of a TV appearance I'd made on a chat show - but, when I tried to order some full colour 8x10s, they'd lost contact with their former studio photographer. A friend was able to blow the sheet up up significantly.
Similarly, some b/w shots from the Sydney premiere night of ST II. That photographer sent me one 8x10 pic of me in costume and a proof sheet (to order other pics), but when I went to his studio to order I was told by his employers that I'd need a clearance letter from Paramount Australia, and that they hoped he had
not already given me any prints. Sigh. I've made some nice images out of
that sheet.
