The ONLY 11ft Cage Shot Ever Made!

Oh, so that was the 11 footer? I always thought it was the 3 foot one? Wow, that’s awesome to see here.

TC1 looks like the move is an optical. The actual physical dolly move looks like a track in, in a straight line towards the saucer with a crane up to get above the saucer, combined with a tilt down to 'look' down onto it, ending on the bridge.

The photo is not in front of Anderson's effects. That photo is in front of the Production Model Shop in Burbank, California, where the model was built.The Howard Anderson Company, an optical effects studio, was located on Fairfax Avenue.

Those nacelle covers look red. Can you go into detail how the Smithsonian came to the conclusion they were orange? Do you know what film stock that photo used?

Can that bridge shot be used to settle the debate about how the bridge is aligned relative to the turbolift shaft bump on the model?

Don't forget that this is one of three shots Filmation rotoscoped into animation for TAS.

The Enterprise didn't have any lights in The Cage. It was greatly modified to have lights shortly after.

Speaking of tas. I'm sure they also rotoscoped the images from pictures of the amt model kits for the enterprise and Klingon ships. They don't look freehand drawn.

In 'one of our planets is missing' a noticed a rear angle shot other enterprise that didn't have to sphere s on the rear of the warp engines so thhis live-action
Continuity error that plagued tos pops up here and there in the animated series.

Very interesting.....