[GREG JEIN, STAR TREK - THE MOTION PICTURE]. On offer here is GREG JEIN'S ORIGINAL PRODUCTION DIRECTORY / ACCOUNT LISTING FOR STAR TREK - THE MOTION PICTURE FROM 1979. Star Trek - The Motion Picture (TMP) famously had ENORMOUS production delays all throughout 1979. The final effects shots not being completed until November 29, 1979 and the final print notably being delivered'wet' to a plane waiting on the tarmac to be flown to the premiere on December 6, 1979. Please see the excellent'Memory-Alpha' site detail on the 1979 production & post-production difficulties associated with this iconic film. For that reason, this 24 pp. Directory / account list is a key artifact surviving which outlines the level of frenzied activity surrounding a production which by mid 1979 was literally going round the clock (24 hrs a day, 7 days a week) to ensure production was completed for the revised December release. Once one understands the immense production difficulties related to this film, this artifact's desirability becomes more apparent. Items of this sort today would be digital vs print.
The document is a bit age stained and worn, but in otherwise good condition. This iteration is dated' 8/79'. We have not seen an earlier or later version of this document in the effects we acquired nor any we saw in the' Heritage - Greg Jein Sale' lots. An interesting and somewhat'unique' artifact with a direct production association to both Greg Jein & the film itself.
As with everything we sell, we guarantee the authenticity in perpetuity. We acquired this lot and other'paper' / photo lots from a contact of ours who cleaned out one of Jein's several Los Angeles area houses. We expect to have about 10 -15 additional lots of interesting and collectible items we feel directly relate to and outline Greg Jeins personal & professional life. Greg Jein (born October 31, 1945 in Los Angeles, USA; died May 22, 2022 in Los Angeles) was a Chinese American model designer who created miniatures for use in the special effects portions of many films and television series, beginning in the 1970s. Jein was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects for his work on the films Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) and 1941 (1979), and also nominated for an Outstanding Special Visual Effects Emmy for his work on Angels in America. One of Jein's first jobs was building models for the sex comedy spoof Flesh Gordon; this was followed by work on a number of television series, commercials and movies including Wonder Woman and The UFO Incident.
Flowers were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects at the 52nd Academy Awards but lost this time to the team who provided the effects for Ridley Scott's Alien. After working on 1941, Jein was invited by Douglas Trumbull to work on Star Trek: The Motion Picture building planetary models for Spock's spacewalk scene and the interior of the V'Ger craft.
Jein continued his association with Star Trek through a number of the movies, building alien weapons for Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, and Starfleet helmets for the assassination scene in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. In 1986 he and a team at Industrial Light & Magic built the original six-foot model of the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) designed by Andrew Probert for the pilot of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
He would go on to build a number of models for The Next Generation including the Ferengi Marauder starship (also designed by Andrew Probert) during the first season of the show, and the Klingon Vor'cha (designed by Rick Sternbach) for the fourth season.