Tomorrow : Yesterday and Today - The Star Trek Filming Locations
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Thanks to Nate for explaining how posting photos is done. Apologies that I couldn't figure out how to get more than 1 photo per post.
I also created a powerpoint diagram that shows each scene and camera location on site, but I couldn't figure out how to post that.
Given the size of the cameras and the lighting needed back during TOS era, it should come as no surprise that they didn't move the camera location very much.
I also created a powerpoint diagram that shows each scene and camera location on site, but I couldn't figure out how to post that.
Given the size of the cameras and the lighting needed back during TOS era, it should come as no surprise that they didn't move the camera location very much.
Interesting to see both how much, and how little, fifty years of weather can change rocks. Certain sharp edges are smoothed down, but large forms are almost identical.
Excellent work, PCz911. Another thing I noticed, it seems like some of the holes on the rocks were filled in or covered over - it looks like something red? Maybe it was done to make it safer for the actors or just to fill in dark spots, unless there actually was vegetation growing in them. Don't know.
I'd love to see that PP diagram.
I'd love to see that PP diagram.
All of that was set dressing. The holes in the rock don't have any soil, they're just eroded holes.
I can't figure out the powerpoint (it took me a year to figure out how to post pictures to begin with). However, if you go it's easy enough to figure out where the images were shot. They're almost all on the edge of the parking lot.
some of shore leave was shot there also, but I didn't look for that. Same with Fridays child.... but I didn't like that episode too much. I did walk where they shot but I wasn't motivated enough to match up the images.
Nate (botany bay) already covered Operation Annhiliate so I won't bother posting those 'then and now' images.
I'm not that familiar with PowerPoint, but there should be various image format options under "Save As" or "Export" in the File menu. Photobucket supports GIF, JPEG, PNG and BMP image files.
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Hear, hear! You've got your shots almost perfectly lined up with the episode shots, PCz911. Well done.
Now you just need to go back and get them all at the same time of day, so the shadows line up. 
Now you just need to go back and get them all at the same time of day, so the shadows line up.
It is possible, but you'd have to be out there all day to wait for the sun. As it was, I had my son with me so my time there was limited. He helped me find the right angles. There were some that I couldn't match up. I'm still curious where those might be.
And I must confess, the shots I didn't share are of me standing (or lying) in the same location/pose as our good captain. It is strange and cool to be able to be in the same spot as shatner. My OCD wishes my son was a little better at direction, but I imagine I looked like a crazy man to all the visitors (especially the bus of geology students from ucla)
This is a real cool thread. I was in LA a few years back and found a few Star Trek sites (namely the Northrop Grumman facility in Redondo Beach and parts of Griffith Park), but nothing to this extant 
I also walked around San Francisco looking for Star Trek IV sites (among others, including Dirty Harry and Alfred Hitchcock films. There is a great book called Footsteps in the Fog that traces Hitchcock's films in San Francisco). Among the nicest places I visited in San Francisco was the future site of Starfleet just across the Golden Gate Bridge. It gives a really nice view of San Francisco and the Bay.
Like someone else noted, I love filming locations. Its neat to see how editing tricks the viewer (case in point: the famous car chase in Bullitt is filmed all over San Francisco and largely makes no geographical sense).
Keep up the good work, and when I visit LA again, I will certainly use this thread as a guide!
I also walked around San Francisco looking for Star Trek IV sites (among others, including Dirty Harry and Alfred Hitchcock films. There is a great book called Footsteps in the Fog that traces Hitchcock's films in San Francisco). Among the nicest places I visited in San Francisco was the future site of Starfleet just across the Golden Gate Bridge. It gives a really nice view of San Francisco and the Bay.
Like someone else noted, I love filming locations. Its neat to see how editing tricks the viewer (case in point: the famous car chase in Bullitt is filmed all over San Francisco and largely makes no geographical sense).
Keep up the good work, and when I visit LA again, I will certainly use this thread as a guide!
Nice matching of locations!
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