The local affiliate in Oregon also ran The Menagerie as a 2-hour movie. But they just showed the two episodes back to back. There may or may not have been a special intro. as well. I don't remember.
The Menagerie movie version from the 70's or 80's
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The local affiliate in Oregon also ran The Menagerie as a 2-hour movie. But they just showed the two episodes back to back. There may or may not have been a special intro. as well. I don't remember.
I thought he was against the blooper reels for some reason?
I don't know the answer to that, but he definitely showed them at his appearances in the 1980's. And they were made for Christmas parties that he attended, so he must have sanctioned them.
Nimoy, of course, hated them...
Wasn't Roddenberry against fan distribution of them? I think I've heard that before, but take it with a grain of salt because I'm not sure.
Blooper reels are a show business tradition, predating Star Trek by decades. Humorous outtakes were always kept and then assembled into little party films that were run at wrap parties, Christmas parties, etc. Check out the superduper deluxe DVD of Errol Flynn's "The Adventures of Robin Hood" for an example from 1938 (it's included because there are a few bits from "Robin Hood", mostly Basil Rathbone doing costume tests).
Roddenberry may have been against fan distribution of the bloopers, but that would've been for purely financial reasons, i.e., it was always one of the featured bits of his lecture appearances, running the blooper reels and "The Cage".
Nimoy, on the other hand, took it personally. His stance was that these were rather private moments that weren't intended for viewing by outsiders. GR offered to give Nimoy a copy of the bloopers, showing that he was completely clueless about why Nimoy was upset over the thing.
Roddenberry may have been against fan distribution of the bloopers, but that would've been for purely financial reasons, i.e., it was always one of the featured bits of his lecture appearances, running the blooper reels and "The Cage".
Nimoy, on the other hand, took it personally. His stance was that these were rather private moments that weren't intended for viewing by outsiders. GR offered to give Nimoy a copy of the bloopers, showing that he was completely clueless about why Nimoy was upset over the thing.
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I don't know how upset Nimoy could be over the blooper reels. When Nimoy hosted a special event screening of TVH a few years back, he showed the blooper reel from TVH and seemed to have little problem with it.
I always thought it was one of the Killer Bs that had a problem with a blooper reel, and the reason you never saw one for the later series. Supposedly they thought, and frankly I think they were right, that a blooper reel destroys the illusion.
A truly great movie is Being There, and there are those who thought that Peter Sellers was denied an Oscar because the credits rolled over a long, deleted scene that was also a blooper. During the movie, you totally believed in this mystical character, Chauncey Gardner, and that belief is destroyed twenty seconds after the end of the movie.
A truly great movie is Being There, and there are those who thought that Peter Sellers was denied an Oscar because the credits rolled over a long, deleted scene that was also a blooper. During the movie, you totally believed in this mystical character, Chauncey Gardner, and that belief is destroyed twenty seconds after the end of the movie.
Is this true? I never heard that he was "against" the blooper reel. I remember seeing this for sale at cons years ago. My brother and I first saw this when our public library showed it before the ran "Forbidden Planet" in about 1978 or so. They ran a few reels, I do not remember if it was all of the bloopers, but my brother and I were just amazed that these even existed at all! When the guard fell in "Bread and Circuses" we just cracked up!
He's gotten over it, but back in the 70's, he was not amused.
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