Re: Star Trek TOS on Blu-ray
This discussion of the ladies and how they were filmed in Star Trek reminded me of something. Jerry Finnerman was schooled in the old school noir days of filmmaking by the old timers.
I think you'll find that Nurse Chapel, Arial Shaw, Commissioner Hedford, Marla McGivers, Uhura, Yeoman Rand, Yeoman Barrows, Leila Kalomi, plus all the other mentioned were all filmed with a hazy gauze!
Finnerman was also the DP for Moonlighting and I read an interview with him where he discusses how he was taught this way to film the ladies to soften them and enhance them. Particularly on Moonlighting, he did that for Cybil Shepard's close-ups. Not to get into gory details, I guess this helped as the day worn on she would get tired and her face showed it.
Onto another aspect of these new Blu Rays. I am wondering how the original effects will look. If you own or had seen the last set of Season box sets of Standard Def DVD's before the remastering, you may have noticed that they tinkered with the optical effects.
All external view shots of the Enterprise on those discs, have had all the color removed. The ship looks grey. But on the old laserdiscs, they ship retains it's blueish tint. I have not looked at the LD's in a long time to compare, this is how I remember them.
So in the effects shots that show the whole ship, if you look closely, you can see the registration numbers on the side of the engines and the red strip is not red, it's gray!
So will the Blu Ray's retain the color? It should.
