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Jan 27, 2018 - 9:40 AM
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Solium
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I'm pretty sure I have the Star Trek TMP photo book but all my books are in boxes right now. Gotta dig into them this weekend. If I don't have it, I need to pick one up.
I forgot all about these! Anyone have any?
https://www.amazon.com/Amok-Time-Star-Trek-Fotonovel/dp/0553120123/ref=pd_sim_14_5?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0553120123&pd_rd_r=P6V0JA7GHGD752M9AY7F&pd_rd_w=Kl6xq&pd_rd_wg=SKWZp&psc=1&refRID=P6V0JA7GHGD752M9AY7F
I have two or three of the TOS Photonovels. They were pretty cool in the pre-Internet era, especially before I had a VCR, but now they're just period artifacts. Any photographic detail of sets, props, and costumes you want to see can be found online now, in much better quality.
Sure for research and such you can't beat the internet and it's wealth of information. But I always loved photo novels. I have a bunch of anime photo novels from the 80's and 90's, mostly from the Miyazaki films.
Sorry going off topic a bit more, but in the 70's or 80's Disney released their own "photo novels" from some of their classic animated films, though they were presented more as story books.
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My dad brought me and my little brother a book at the time that gave actual construction diagrams of the Enterprise. I mean, completely drawn out. Wish I still had it, probably worth something.
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My dad brought me and my little brother a book at the time that gave actual construction diagrams of the Enterprise. I mean, completely drawn out. Wish I still had it, probably worth something.
If you can remember the title or any details about it, I'd be curious.
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Both of the above books look mighty familiar. I could have sworn the hardcover book itself was black on the outside.
The book was so extensive with the blueprints that it was hard for a young girl (or even my little brother, a massive Wars and Trek fan) to connect with. Very technical. Even my father didn't know how...I guess "literal" might be a good word here, the book was. He just bought it for us to have fun reading.
In any event, the book ended up banished to the never read shelf. It's unfortunate, probably more than a collector's item now. I'm wondering if my parents still have it.
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Oct 1, 2018 - 5:54 PM
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Solium
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Do you remember them selling individual slides from TOS back in the early 70's? I had a whole envelope full of them and like an idiot tossed them out when I was in high school.
I was a year old in '72, so no, nor had I heard of the slides since then--I'll have to look them up.
On the subject of TOS collectibles, it is of endless interest to me that Star Trek was such a sales force during the '70s. The show was a syndication staple, so that had to be the reason for its continued success in the toy and collectibles markets.
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=Star%20Trek%20TOS%20film%20clips
History: As Star Trek was nearing the end of its production, Gene Roddenberry answered the fans calls for Star Trek memorabilia by making available to them single frames of film called film clips. These clips were trims from the work prints of the episodes that were normally discarded. Roddenberry's company, Lincoln Enterprises (also called Star Trek Enterprises) packaged and sold these trims in categories such as planet interiors, planet exteriors, Kirk, Spock, aliens, etc. Fortunately for us, anything and everything that went before the cameras wound up in these packages, so mixed in with the episodic film clips are frames that show studio personnel, pre-special effects work, etc. From a historical perspective, these clips are excellent sources of information as to how The Original Series (TOS) was produced.
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grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
