Industrial Light and Magic's Special Effects for
                            Star Trek II + III

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         Star Trek II-The Wrath Of Kahn

         Special Visual Effect Supervisors   Special Effects Cameramen
              Ken Ralston and Jim Veilleux        Donald Dow
                                                  Scott Ferrar

         Matte painting artists              Ultra High Speed Camera
              Cris Evans                          Bruce Hill Prod.
              Frank Ordaz


              The special effects crew of this film were at work about
         six days(60 hours) each week. Most of the models were created
         at ILM out of brass plates which were etched where lights
         were needed. Then, neon lights were placed inside to create a
         wonderful glow. At the end of the film, when the explosion
         was set of by the Genesis device, a special high speed camera
         was used. For an example of the speed, normal cameras at
         normal speed travel at 24 fps(frames per second) the camera
         for this shot ran at 2500 fps! So fast that on film it took
         one minute forty four seconds and in real time it took less
         than one second.

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         Star Trek III-The Search For Spock

         Special Visual Effect Supervisor     Visual Effects Cameramen
              Ken Ralston                            Donald Dow
                                                     Scott Ferrar
         Special Effect Art Directors                Selwyn Eddy III
              Nilo Rodis-Jamero
              David Carson                    Creature Supervisor
                                                     David Sosalla

              In this film, many of the same ideas were used to do the
         effects in Star Trek 2. One of the new ideas was the doglike
         pet of the Klingon leader. To do this, Ken Ralston built a
         foam latex `dog' and operated it from a small cut away
         section of the ship's raised floor. The detailed models of
         Star Trek III were made by William Beck, Mike Fulmer, Ira
         Keeler, and Jeff Mann. ILM then used a motion control camera
         (guided by computer) to move the models in front of a blue
         screen. After alot of hard work and editing in an optical
         printer ,the models are `spliced' onto a prefilmed
         background.



         If you have any questions on the effects mentioned or any at
         all leave me a message by E-MAIL.
         I will also upload the effects to Star Trek:The Next
         Generation very soon.
         I hope you enjoyed the information, and can't wait to hear
         from you.
                                           Mark Schey 70701,1411

         This is not intended to infringe the rights of Lucasfilm
                   Ltd., ILM, or Paramount Pictures.