Bridge to Captain Pike?
It could have been! In a very unusual twist, NBC ordered a second pilot of Star Trek. In the original, the captain’s name was Christopher Pike and was played by Jeff Hunter. In the second pilot, James T Kirk appeared as William Shatner was now free from obligations that prevented him from doing the first pilot. Creator Gene Roddenberry shows us some rare footage and tells the story. Below is the original Enterprise model being readied for the second pilot.
‘Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer’ 1944/1948 This cartoon from Max Fleischer Studios is thought to be the first ever, animated depiction of the original story written by Robert May in 1939. This was released in theaters in December of 1944, but the now famous song was not written until 1947. In ’48 the song, first […]
CBUT Marconi Mark IIs Cover Empire Games, Vancouver The Mark II cameras that were just found were a key element in covering this, and all events of the 1954 Empire Games. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP_NzZP_LK0 On 6th May 1954, Roger Bannister ran the first sub-4-minute mile at Iffley Road, Oxford. He held his world record for just six […]
The Ones and Onlys…Bob And Ray Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding began as radio announcers (Elliott a disc jockey, and Goulding a news reader) in Boston with their own separate programs on station WHDH-AM, and each would visit with the other while on the air. Their informal banter was so appealing that WHDH would call […]
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Back when it was “blue screen” as opposed to today’s “green screen”.
I remember folks on camera where the background would “com through” their clothes because the color matched the blue._’
There was a lot of green screen too back in the 1960s and 1970s, both in film (traveling matte) and video (chroma key). The blue channel is usually the least significant one in rendering skin tones, and in 1960s camera design, it was usually the most optically compromised and noisy. Norelco cameras used the green channel for deriving the “contour” signal, which was used for image enhancement (improving contrast) BTW.
Very cool. Thank s for sharing that.
I have seen the original pilot as a stand alone feature, back at my one and only Star Trek convention in 1974 or 1975. I never knew about the second pilot. Majel Barrett’s character was referred to as Number One, in the Royal Navy manner.
Pike comes back in future episodes as a paralyzed admirial in a wheelchair
This shot was probably taken on the stage at Linwood Dunn’s Film Effects of Hollywood.
Everything on Star Trek exists today except teleportation and Klingons, I think.