While Star Trek: The Original Series was still in production, Gene Roddenberry formed a memorabilia merchandising company called Lincoln Enterprises that sold items such as scripts, postcards, IDIC jewelry, flight deck certificates, tribbles and other collectibles to fans of the show. Among the most unique items offered were packets of film clip frames; which contained pieces of the "trims" and "outtakes" (the unused pieces of printed footage) that were left over after the film editors assembled the desirable footage into the finished master versions of the Star Trek episodes. Lincoln Enterprises sold different packets of film clips that were sorted based on principal character or other themes. Fans could buy a set containing just footage of Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Uhura or a set featuring aliens, etc. Typically 2 to 3 near identical images were present on each strip of film that varied in length between 1.5" to 2.5". Each film clip was unique and was a piece of the actual film running through the Desilu cameras as the Star Trek episodes were being filmed.
Presented below are a series of never before seen images taken from a large collection of TOS film clip frames in the authors collection. They were acquired in the early '70s directly from Lincoln Enterprises, and this is the first time that they have been captured as digital images.
The entire collection has been preserved as originally obtained over 35 years ago ...
And now, some individual film clip images ...
Saturday, August 8, 2009
TOS Film Clip Frames - Rare Imagery From The Cutting Room Floor Part I
