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From: wales@ucla-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Where did they do this scene?
Message-ID: <3396@ucla-cs.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 24-Jan-85 17:45:38 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 24 17:45:38 1985
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Reply-To: wales@ucla-cs.UUCP (Rich Wales)
Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department
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One very small part of the outdoor planet scene in "Operation:  Annihi-
late" was filmed at UCLA.

Shortly after the landing party beams down, Kirk looks off in the dis-
tance and says, "My brother's lab is over there."  Following this line
is a 2-second shot of UCLA's Schoenberg Hall (our music building).

Since none of the rest of the scene was filmed at UCLA, I assume they
took this one shot separately (since there was no motion, it might even
have been a single still picture duplicated as necessary to fill in the
desired amount of time).  There is no reason to suppose that any of the
cast came to UCLA during the filming of this episode.

Incidentally, this shot of Schoenberg Hall is backwards.  What you are
seeing is the NW corner of the Schoenberg lobby; the camera was facing
slightly south of due east, from the far corner of a raised patio area
outside the building.  For some reason -- perhaps just by accident --
left and right were reversed in the final print.

True Star Trek fanatics may wish to come to UCLA and see if they can
discover for themselves the exact camera angle used for this scene.  If
you try this, keep in mind that the trees around Schoenberg have grown
quite a bit since the late 60's; in particular, there is a large tree
limb in the line of view now that evidently wasn't there 17 years ago.
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