Magicam
From Memory Alpha, the free Star Trek reference
(written from a Production point of view)
Magicam was a relatively short-lived company specialized in building miniatures. The company, headed by James Richard (Jim) Dow, was a full subsidiary of Paramount Pictures, who created the company to maintain full control over filming models. The most notable contributions of the company are the models build for Star Trek: Phase II and Star Trek: The Motion Picture, most notably the refit-USS Enterprise. The company was in existence from the mid seventies until 1982, when the shop was closed down and Paramount began using Industrial Light & Magic for the pre-production of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
Model makers employed at the time of The Motion Picture:
- Bruce Bishop
- Cris Crump
- Chris Elliot
- Lee Ettelman
- Joe Garlington
- Kriss Gregg
- Ron Gress
- Tom Pahk
- Dennis Schultz
- Russ Simpson
- Dick Singleton
- Mark Stetson
- Rick Thompson
- George Trimmer
The only credits of the company after The Motion Picture were the TV shows Cosmos(1980) and The Greatest American Hero(1981).
[edit] External link
- Magicam at the Internet Movie Database
