God that model is beautiful. What an imaginative design by Matt Jeffries. Still looks futuristic 50 years later. Amazing.

@crazysnarfy861

Жыл бұрын

The design was pure freakin' genius! Instead of the idea of a traditional rocket, he took the "flying saucer" idea and ran with it, to brilliant effect.

@airfiero4772

Жыл бұрын

@@crazysnarfy861 agreed

@AndSendMe

Жыл бұрын

@@crazysnarfy861 Except that aspect was a late arrival in his iterations. He departed from the traditional rocket early, but arrived at the saucer after many drafts.

@leerilea1709

Жыл бұрын

USS Enterprise, NCC-1701 no bloody ABC or D.

@crazysnarfy861

Жыл бұрын

@@leerilea1709 Calm down, Scotty 😋

A single track for the camera and a guy turning the model by hand. Stone knives and bear skins, indeed. It's fitting she now rests among the accomplishments she helped inspire.

@willmfrank

Жыл бұрын

A lot of young people today, accustomed to CG, are absolutely amazed when they see BTS footage of Star Wars, with John Dykstra's motion-controlled miniatures. Imagine their young minds being blown when they watch that random stagehand rotating that eleven foot long, six hundred pound Enterprise by hand...! 😁

@msh6865

Жыл бұрын

And it worked brilliantly!

@starshipcaptain4753

Жыл бұрын

At least they changed it so he could spin the ship with a crank

@willmfrank

Жыл бұрын

@@starshipcaptain4753 Pretty sure the geared head always had the crank; it just turned the ship more slowly. Disengaging the gears so that the head rotated freely would have allowed the techie to perform a faster turn

It's a real pity this blue screen photography couldn't have been used to remaster the effects for TOS-R. Imagine having the original camera footage re-composited digitally, and with the motion smoothed etc. Would be so much better than the really already-dated CGI space-ship shots.

@Vondoodle

Жыл бұрын

I’m going to have a go with this footage to teach my students keying and cleanplate that should give them a challenging task

@Mozart1220

Жыл бұрын

I hate the CGI. The planets look better but the ship looks like a reject from the animated series.

@willmfrank

Жыл бұрын

@@Mozart1220 I read one comment a few years ago ( I've forgotten where; otherwise I'd cite it) that said the CG Enterprise looked like something out of a video game.

@michaelbruno1666

Жыл бұрын

Yes I would have preferred using CGI to improve the original base special effects. Especially in the case of the Doomsday Machine, whose original effects I thought were amazingly dramatic.

@m.n.2311

Жыл бұрын

The CGI looked too cartoonish when it was 'remastered' but I have the Blue Ray DVD set which offers the original effects when watching and that is the ONLY way I will watch Star Trek original series, with the original effects.

The show had one of the best soundtracks. As a kid, it definitely had me mesmerized.

The music from "The Doomsday Machine" is the best in the entire series. And the episode is one of the best in the entire franchise. And posthumous shoutout to William (Matt Decker) Windom (WWII Paratrooper veteran) and helluva actor and decent guy. In his old age he once drove a long way to appear in a fanfic Trek. For free as for as I know.

@dogspunk

Жыл бұрын

There’s a video essay dissection of the score here on KZread, gives you an even better appreciation of what a tour de force it is.

@marcusalexander7088

Жыл бұрын

@@dogspunk I've seen it. Agreed.

They really knew their stuff back then , I prefer these kind of models vs the modern day soulless CGI stuff.

I’m always amazed at how photogenic that model is, and also what they were able to accomplish with relatively primitive SFX camera equipment. This was a VERY ambitious production, that managed to do quite a lot with a limited budget.

I was blessed to see the original model at the Smithsonian ... relining my childhood and to see this is amazing...

@dalebachman2892

Жыл бұрын

Were you able to see it after the last restoration?

@jv-lk7bc

Жыл бұрын

@@dalebachman2892 I have. although not when it was lit. they only do that once a day for a short period.. its a transcendant moment. even in a building that has the moon lander and all the other great things... its the thing that stands out, that makes the hair on your neck stand up.

@seanfoleyexperimentalmusic6671

2 ай бұрын

ahh the smithsonian istitute made giant skeletons dissapear from dig sites under orders from the vatican.....should be ashamed of themselves

Adam Savage talked about viewing this model in the Smithsonian. It was made of wood, and Still Holds Up 60+ yrs later. Amazing! Thanks for sharing these great tests and passes.

Gorgeous ship. So amazing what they were able to do way back when -- not only before Star Wars but even before 2001: A Space Odyssey.

I still have my 1975 Mego USS Enterprise playset along with all my figures when I first got them in Woolworths store in NYC in the mid 70s. God I love the Enterprise ship.

@horseenthusiast1250

24 күн бұрын

Cool! I have a newer Mego figure (of the Romulan commander from Balance Of Terror), and I wish I had a model of the Enterprise herself. Such a beautifully futuristic design; the Enterprise looks like it truly *belongs* in space.

This is GOLD! Thanks! The frontal view from the bottom always reminded me of an old ship with sails. The 2 engines and supports were modern sails. Star Trek had the best special effects until 1977 when Star Wars came along.

@chadbrown748

5 ай бұрын

In principle, it's the same effect for both. A stationary model filmed a against a blue screen. The model remains stationary, while the camera on a guide track provides the motion. And after the model element shot is comlpletes, it is optically composited into a seperate animated background, in this case, either a starfield, or a starfield with a either a model or glass painting of a planet.

Wow! That really is THE Enterprise. What a huge, amazing model. It totally captured my imagination as a kid. I feel like a physical model is more realistic than a CGI version. Although...I almost hate to destroy the illusion by watching this!

@willmfrank

Жыл бұрын

Any really well done magic trick is still amazing even when you know how it's done.

@photographyinflight4183

Жыл бұрын

A physical model is more realistic, because it's...........real. That's all I have, gotta go.

@francisdhomer5910

Жыл бұрын

I agree with you. While CGI has added to effect shots the old model shooting miniature (Gads I have a hard time saying miniature talking about the 11 foot model. lol) and their limitations helped add to the realism. To many times for me a CGI spaceship while looking neato just feels wrong

@gbrads

Жыл бұрын

It is the movement I notice with CGI effects some effects houses will have large vessels turn way to fast for there mass it looks so fake. With real models it seems it is easier to get the motion right.

9:09 This timestamp's when I paused the video to comment, just as the ED music swelled. Shared this with my grown kids to prove that 60s ST's modelwork really was ground-breaking... in outer space!

Thanks for posting this. Some of those unused clips were really cool shots.

@willmfrank

Жыл бұрын

Most of those unused clips were rejected because the camera cast a huge shadow over the miniature as it approached...unfortunate, because otherwise they're great shots.

It's fascinating to see the original blue screen background footage because it really gives a sense of how difficult it was to set up usable camera passes on account of that model being so large. The relatively small size of the stage didn't help. That huge, 11-foot "miniature" really needed a bigger set-up with a curved, cyclorama-style blue screen backdrop. I'm glad these shots of the iconic Enterprise have been preserved. Star Trek is a national, even global treasure indeed. The digital CGI remaster was well-intentioned but has aged even worse than the original analog special effects, which by now have taken on a charm and aesthetic of their own that makes them compelling to see for an audience used to hyper-realistic CGI. The Enterprise takes on such a beautiful, otherworldly glow in the final composited shots and the graininess from the optical printer process actually adds a level of depth and detail quality all its own that is completely lost in those boring CGI renderings with their flat grey coloring and lifeless movements. The opening sequence suffers the worst for it. The original high speed passes used in the opening sequence of the 2nd and 3rd seasons still hold up very well and manage to covey a sense of speed and outer space depth of field that's completely lacking in the CGI remasters. I wonder if that raw footage still exists. I'm very curious how that was done. I would guess that was done with the "lost" 3-foot model fixed to some rolling dolly on a slanted track or rig almost like slot cars, gathering momentum as it was going down that track to rush by a stationary camera because there is so much blur and distortion in the individual frames. That tells me that it must have been filmed with actual fast movement. If anyone knows, please share! CBS-Paramount should do the right thing and pull those awful digitally remastered episodes and release them with "cleaned up" versions of the original footage. It would be the appropriate "stewardship" for this legendary piece of pop culture.

@willmfrank

Жыл бұрын

The "Swish!" shots were indeed done with the 33-inch model. It would probably have been stationary in its rig, with the camera on rails, like the shots of the eleven-foot model. The blur and distortion were most likely the result of undercranking and a wide-angle lens.

@DSGNflorian

Жыл бұрын

@@willmfrank Possibly, there are a few ways this could have been achieved. The whole TOS opening sequence (2nd season) still intrigues me to this day. It's an artistic triumph, visually, musically and Shatner's iconic narration over it. It's obvious that extra care went into making it, particularly into the alignment between the traveling matte and the "starship fill", which was often pretty sloppy throughout the series, with portions of the Enterprise occasionally "blinking out" or a lot of dust and scratches visible from the optical printer pass.

@jays4022

Жыл бұрын

I'm very miffed by the remastered shots of the ship in action. They appear very cartoonish.

Excellent reference material! I knew Richard Datin, who built the 3 footer and 11 footer, as well as the Galileo and K-7. I also produced the SFAM series for modelers.

@imagesh1

Жыл бұрын

Paul, I purchased the lighting kit and your SFAM guides as a Junior High Schooler back in 78 or so, still have the slightly unfinished Enterprise in a box somewhere (all electronics were working at the time)... I remember sanding off those deflector lines (seemingly took forever). I didn't have large enough diameter fiber optics, but I made do, and filed the rectangular windows to shape with epoxy filling them with the fibers illuminating them as an "upgrade". Maybe I need to revisit and finish... really great to have some personal contact with you, as a kid growing up on the empty prairies of Colorado you certainly made a difference in my life. I often think of that whole process, which helped instill me with skills that have lasted a lifetime. Thank you.

@aldunlop4622

Жыл бұрын

Very impressive!

A true classic of design never goes out of style.👏

Well this is absolutely glorious! The Enterprise truly was the star of the show wasn't she? Thanks so much for this. Now, if we only had some similar footage of the Klingon D-7 and the Romulan Bird of Prey!

Love this, Seeing actual filming of the Enterprise.

I loved the original soundtrack and the photos of the Enterprise at the Smithsonian look beautiful!

So cool. Love the 60's technicians around the model.

Original Trekkie here. GREAT COMPILATION! My fav visual of the ship exterior was the hanger deck.

It’s amazing what they could do with the models and film back then. The show always looks so realistic to me.

I wanted to see a whole lot more of that on the Roddenberry Vault discs. (What a disappointment that was.) Thanks for posting!

What an incredible behind the scenes look that I thought I would never see. Thank you

2:00 love the look of the nacelle domes

At 2:03, it's very interesting how the nacelle lighting effect changed, as seen in test footage, with a more heavily white frosted domes and a swirling effect rather than the later spinning 12 ribs lit from behind by a series of incandescent Christmas lights of different colors that we all know today. Clearly they were trying different things to see what looked better in terms of color. You can see later in the test footage them working with just the blinking colored lights, but no spinning ribs, etc. The shadow fill effects finally show us the amber tinted (inside) domes, with light white frosted outside painted domes, and the spinning ribs over blinking lights. It's obvious they were iterating based on the test footage results.

Awesome thanks for sharing always like the TOS Enterprise no other ship can top her appearance.

This is cool stuff. I've read about the making of the series and the challenges of filming the "miniature" but it is cool to see some of this surviving behind the scenes stuff.

Beautiful and elegant ! A complete departure from the standard phallic shape that was the common for the day

Fantastic! Such a gorgeously designed ship - great behind the scenes footage of the raw film before effects. Thank you for posting!

The original effects were state of the art for the time. No other TV show spent that kind of money on optical printing. Compare it to say _Lost in Space_ which just used a fiberglass flying saucer hung from piano wire in front of a black curtain with white Christmas tree lights in the background..

I think I hear the background music for the Doom's Day Machine. Thanks to who ever posted this. I create animations with green screen. The blue screen was the 1960's thing. Great video.

The ships always were and always will be the real MVP's of Star Trek.

I'm still looking for that really long pull they did for the opening flyby.. they went through several studios and I think ended up outside before they stopped. I noticed the CGI exchange for the mirror pass. Too bad they didn't use the footage they filmed.. it looked good on bluescreen.

So much fun. thank you. The music was such an important part of the show.

Wow, this is great. I didn't know it's so huge.

@JGG1701

Жыл бұрын

11 feet.😉

This is brilliant! Love it!!

Damn!... this is good stuff! Thank you.

It's amazing that the enterprise model could be balanced on one mount from underneath. It doesn't appear to have any wires or supports from above keeping the engines from sagging.

@willmfrank

Жыл бұрын

The engines are hollow, made of thin rolled sheet metal over plywood frames, and the struts are incredibly sturdy, solid hardwood (oak, if I'm not mistaken.) Also, there is at least one photograph of Linwood Dunne filming the Enterprise with a Panavision camera, where one can see what appears to be a a brace running from the geared head to the underside of the hangar deck; I've never seen such a brace in any other photograph.

FANTASTIC!!!!! THANKS!

Fun fact about the Botany Bay (seen at 6:42) Notice that honkin' great huge fan-shaped chunk in the middle; those are five wedge-shaped cargo paniers. A page of drawings, reproduced in "Star Trek Sketchbook The Original Series" and labelled "Antique space freighter" shows that the ship was designed to carry sixteen of them, that could be added or removed as required. Three more would be mounted atop the present five, forming a full octagon, with a matching eight attached to the octagonal section behind. What is never mentioned in the episode is what happened to those missing eleven paniers.

@jv-lk7bc

Жыл бұрын

cool! i always wondered about that. its a brilliant detail that they came up with.

@willmfrank

Жыл бұрын

@@jv-lk7bc I'm hoping that a fan film, or maybe even SNW, will show a DY freighter being loaded, and we'll get to see those cargo pods being slotted into place.

Well done and good choice in series music. My first time seeing this footage. Love the transition shots from studio footage to background.

@shadowsilverlight1651

Жыл бұрын

the music sucked

HalleluYaH HalleluYaH HalleluYaH HalleluYaH HalleluYaH EXCELLENT Job Team of Behind The Scenes, Your Are The Back Bone of the Show as far as i am Concerned. Shalom, Chayim, Blessings

At 1:20 you can see they had a larger deflector dish on the early ship that they made smaller on the final version of the classic Enterprise. Definitely glad they did because that huge dish looks silly. Dunno if it’s because I’m used to the smaller version or not tbh but I do like the smaller version… especially on the Stange New Worlds version.

@rgsrails

Жыл бұрын

Had not noticed that myself in my 57 years of life! Thanks for stating that! Note too the early warp nacelle Bussard Collectors weren't lit. Just Mahogany domes. So glad they changed that.

@NeoMorphUK

Жыл бұрын

@@rgsrails I don’t know much about how much it is we are just used to the Classic Trek Enterprise but I hated the sight of the Kelvin Enterprise. I was beginning to think they couldn’t improve on the Classic Trek when I saw the Strange New Worlds Enterprise… and my jaw literally hit the floor. I play a lot of Star Trek Online(STO) and when I got the SNW Enterprise I was really happy to say the least. It’s just perfection.

Wow. I never realized just how small Capt. Kirk and the crew were. Seeing these guys laying under the ship really puts it into perspective. 😁

Great work for the time that still stands out as every original. It's a shame Paramount is trying now to erase it by replacing it with CGI.

Music from the dooms day machine episode. Show was definitely ahead of its time.

5:50 The best tension building music ever! I always called the fight theme because it always reminds me of the fight between Spock and Kirk on Vulcan.

@willmfrank

Жыл бұрын

The piece is called "Ancient Battle" and was composed specifically for that very scene.

@InformationIsTheEdge

Жыл бұрын

@@willmfrank Fantastic! Thanks for that!

@willmfrank

Жыл бұрын

@@InformationIsTheEdge Odd thing is, the piece was composed to be contextual to the other Vulcan themes throughout the scene; it's intended to be Vulcan music, i.e. Spock's theme...but it ended up being used whenever Kirk got himself into a shirt-ripping fistfight. 😁🖖

@InformationIsTheEdge

Жыл бұрын

@@willmfrank HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! Shirt ripping fistfight! Best laugh I've had all week! Thank you!

@willmfrank

Жыл бұрын

@@InformationIsTheEdge My go-to joke about Gary Mitchell's "James R. Kirk" gravestone is that Mitchell knows about Kirk's habit of getting his shirt torn in every fight scene (including the one he has with Gary a few minutes later!) The "R." stands for "Rip." 😁

This is so awesome. Thanks for sharing. God bless you and keep you.

I saw this model when it was on display in the gift shop of the Smithsonian. Even though it had the much derided overdone restoration at the time, it is truly an incredible piece of work. I too wish they had used the original blue screen footage of this miniature for the "upgraded" TOS. I think about all of the hard work that went into the design, assembly and filming of this great piece of art only to have the footage unceremoniously replaced by some truly third rate CGI.

@Durwood71

Жыл бұрын

If you buy the Bluray set, you have the option to watch episodes with the original effects, which is the only way to do it.

@willmfrank

Жыл бұрын

@@Durwood71 It's truly unfortunate that the team didn't restore the original effects along with the live action. It's a bit jarring to see the live action looking good as new juxtaposed with grimy and degraded effects footage.

I just nerded in my pants. Love this history.

What a great video - many thanks for taking the time to do this!

Outstanding! Thank you.

Great video !!!. I loved seeing this.

That is some slick stuff there. I've seen stills from these clips but never have I seen the actual clips. Thanks for posting!

@dandeliondown7920

Жыл бұрын

Open the pod bay doors, HAL.

wish i had this 20 years ago...

Awesome. Thanks for sharing.

Fantastic!

Super interesting!

The Romulan Command thanks you for being a traitor to the Federation for revealing this important information. Your reward is waiting for you on Romulus..... a cold, bitter reward.

thanks for this, it really is an excellent model

Thanks for posting.

"Sin lugar a dudas; Es la Nave Estelar más Hermosa que he visto en mi vida" ¡Que se Joda el Halcón Milenario!

Awesome!!

Thank you for sharing this. I've been waiting find blue screen shots of the Enterprise like this. I saw some on Roddenberry Vault but I 'think' you have more blue screen shots than what was on Roddenberry Vault.

Very interesting! Great BTS stuff!

The shot seen at 5.59 looks quite like some shots seen later in Star Trek The Motion Picture, and would look fantastic with a large planet in space composited behind it.

Great job. Gt.👍💯

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Wonderful stuff 👍

Love this..They had the motion, just not the control..this must have inspired Dykstra (among other things) to a degree..

Fantastic

Thank you Nik

Muito obrigado! Incrível essa postagens dos bastidores VFX! "Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise (...)"

Magical

OMG that music gave me shivers! It was the secret sauce!

Where did you get all this video footage from? It's AWESOME!!!

GENE RODDENBERRY was A GENIUS! 👏🏽👏🏽

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OMG This is AMAZING!!! I just started work on one of the 1/350 Enterprises. This Grade-A starship porn is gonna be invaluable.

great fx

Way cool man ! THANKS ! 775

do modelers paint the 1701 white? A long time ago i got a plastic model of one and the instructions said to paint it white and that always bothered me

2:50 - That's quite cinematic lighting there. Wonder why they didn't go with that...

This is how you create magic.

This is fantastic stuff! Why oh why didn't Desilu use these shots instead of rehashing the same ones over and over?!? And after all these decades I just now see that the middle "window" of the three on the front of the saucer was originally a nav light. Wow!

@Durwood71

Жыл бұрын

The most likely reason shots were recycled is because of how expensive that type of work was in the early 1960s, and the show simply didn't have the budget to do more than the absolute minimum in special effects, especially the second and third seasons which had smaller budgets.

@dogspunk

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, same re: middle window/nav light

That 180 turn…

I think I remember there being bubble gum cards with Star Trek scenes. I'm very surprised they could find a way to make an absolute fortune from that original series.

The music wasn't funny until about 4 minutes in and I realized how dramatic they were trying to be over a slow motion reveal . Sounds like the planet eater music.

Love it. I wonder how long it took the model designers to build that very expensive model.

Botany Bay is like the Highpoint carbine. Something designed by the Jenai off of Stargate Atlantis.

Really cool video. I liked the original nacelles better than the ones on the "new Enterprise" from the movies, where they placed them a lot closer together. For some reason, it looks really goofy to me.

Apparently when they filmed shots of the Enterprise no one had heard of the green-screen yet!

@drlong08

Жыл бұрын

Before green there were blue screens. I believe well up into the late 1970's. Crazy, I know.

@wsplatinum

Жыл бұрын

@@drlong08 whats crazy about that. look up making of footage of the SW prequel trilogy. there is a lot of blue screen used at least in TPM which was still shot on film. AFAIK blue screen isn't as feasible with digital cinematography but was used almost exklusively in th film era.

@truthandreality8465

Жыл бұрын

Green screen had been around for decades preceding the 1960s Star Trek, as had sodium backing screen, red infra screen, black screen, rear projection, front projection, bipack and other processes. Blue screen was comparatively economical and easier to comply with the optical printer passes needed to complete the effect. Blue worked well for compositing and was more economical and accessible for the photochemical duping processes needed to combine the elements. Computer digital processing made green screen popular but most manner of travelling mattes can b economically done, or simulated, in the digital realm.

@Durwood71

Жыл бұрын

There's a technical reason blue screen was used for film, but I can't remember what that reason is at the moment.

@truthandreality8465

Жыл бұрын

@@Durwood71 Bluescreen was better for the color filmstock separations that they had to run through the optical printer to create the travelling matte passes and final superimposition shots. There was generally less blue in the foreground elements especially when involving people or animals or other sources of heat such as light and radiant and ambient reflections, such as with studio lighting, and blue could be filtered out of the bluescreen shots with less bleedthrough than with green and other color separation backing travelling matte shots. Computers using digital travelling matte compositions however can filter green very quickly and effectively and could be adjusted for both hot and cold lighting environments.

This ship has always been a peek at what Humanity could one day achieve. Too bad we probably will never make it to that level of decency as a species. This video made me happy. Thanks for putting it together and sharing it publicly. While it is a valuable resource for modelers, it will be a joy for many, many more people over the years.

wow there are some very early shots of the model with the deflector "antenna" probes on the warp nacelles included. :)

Best trek ever.

@msh6865

Жыл бұрын

Agreed! And it isn't even close.

Man I bet if you drop this is after effect it will work this amazing thank you amazing

My favorite funny witty moments from the original series are tied between "I found this on gani-moon-eh-Gany-muh-mede" "what is it?" "well, it's.... it's green!" (guzzle) and "captain, I can't help wondering if there are any more of those weapons wandering around the universe..." "I certainly hope not. I found ONE quite sufficient!" (funny flute riff) EDIT: I forgot "sir, there is a multi-legged creature crawling on your shoulder." (vulcan nerve pinch and jarring musical sting)

@dandeliondown7920

Жыл бұрын

Don't forget: OXMYX [OC]: Krako's put the bag on your captain. SPOCK: Why would he put a bag on our captain?