This is all 60s technology I cant imagine what they went through to design all of this ? Very impressive this stuff is almost 60 years old and still working. It would of taken a beating on set and to still function after all this time too cool
The noise from the motors driving the radar screens must have driven the sound man insane during filming. In fact, when you consider all the doo-dads that were running at any one time during the space flight segments, that was probably one very noisy set. In fact, you'll notice that the "Jacob's ladder" devices next to the freezing tubes were only seen operating in the pilot episodes and there is no live action sound when those shots were filmed. They would have played absolute hell with the sound recordings. They were never seen again in operation.
@@Mcfreddo Probably. But even brand new and well oiled, those little electric motors would generate quite a bit of electro-magnetic interference, easily picked up by the sound taping equipment if the microphones got too close. I would imagine more than a few takes were ruined by a buzzing hum interfering with the dialog.
@@HAL_NINER_TRIPLE_ZERO Probably needed to loop a lot of the dialog if it was performed near the controls in operation. The director and DOP would have had to plan around the sound issues a lot to get the right coverage.
That radar screen is just a flat disc that is turning, could have made that from a record player. I think their imagination was limited to what could be created with the technology and budget they had available.
They didn't predict screens at all. In the sixties and seventies shows, a computer was a big box with blinking lights. Which, in all fairness, is what early computers looked like. Amazingly, this stereotype lasted all the way to the nineties. If you look closely, in Jurassic Park, even though they're using Silicon Graphics computers, they still have boxes with blinking lights in the back of the operation room.
I was a young teenager when I saw a magazine article on "2001: A Space Odyssey," with color photos of the ships and interiors. It's hard to imagine the impact the professional-looking sets and viewscreen displays had on someone raised on Irwin Allen and 1950s SF. To be fair, actual spacecraft of the time like Gemini and Apollo had panels that looked a lot more like Jupiter II hardware than "2001" hardware.
I saw the flight deck and got a picture of it on two seperate occasions at Wonderfest in Louisville. Tom Daughtery build an exact replica and takes it around country to Comic cons. It has appeared with Marta Kristen at various events. It is awesome! and very Quiet! 😂
A fellow industrial engineer and I visited 'Alpha Control' after three days at East Moriches in 1997 sorting through avionics systems 'portions' from Flight 800. That was the first time I found it necessary to argue with accounting over my expense account, they couldn't fight the 'would you rather have paid a bar tab?' logic
Wow. Those buttons and switches are shockingly responsive. You'd think almost none of them did anything. Somebody has to take that jacket and sneakers out of the dryer though! 😁
I wonder if anybody ever built or will build a complete! replica upper or lower deck of the J2?! Imagine for ex. if your home looked like/& you slept & ate in a lower deck replica! i would think to replicate that working elevator would b insanely expensive. Recreating all the freezing tubes & 2 motorized airlock doors for an upper deck would b even worse - i guess the upper deck could b used as a living room. I would not want to leave!
May I PLEASE come over and play?? How in the world was all of this acquired/rescued?? I'm guessing the set in which they all reside (please appreciate impeccable grammar) is a rebuild, is it from thed original blueprints? And *must* know, what the heck IS that gizmo in the center?
As a 9 year old kid back then, I bet that we believed that every switch and light had a real purpose...and that's what it would look like on its launch date of October 16, 1997.
After seeing how these props were so noisy and rickety , can't imagine how hard it was to keep up with "The Voyage to The Bottom of The Sea" sets as they were blown up and set on fire nearly every episode ?
I didn't watch Lost In Space, I grew up on Star Trek in syndication in the '70s. (Lost in Space must not have had much syndication or I would have discovered that?) I gotta say, the flight deck is actually nicer and much more detailed and realistic than the Star Trek bridge controls. Just smaller and less of it. I can't imagine how they recorded dialogue over that sound effect, though. Is the sound much louder today due to aging bearings and so forth?
Someone asked me if the glass(?) dome on it was the same thing used for the sub in Fantastic Voyage. A similar one was used in Star Trek "Devil In The Dark" and "The Alternative Factor"
Does Bill Hedges, the SuperFan, have any of it? By the way, a bit OT, some of the reel-to-reel computer machines from the Time Tunnel can be seen in the Russian computer lab scenes of The Americans.
Looks cool...theres no way they filmed with all that background noise, i dont know what they did different, but i know the set designers goal was illusion, not realistic noise creation.
They probably dubbed (looped) the dialog. It's more common than you would think. A lot of scenes shot outdoors in windy situations or with wind machines (which are very noisy) almost always have to be dubbed later.
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Boy,what a racket! I can imagine Jonathan Harris saying 'I can't hear myself think,dear boy'
IT’S WHISPER QUIET!!!
This is all 60s technology I cant imagine what they went through to design all of this ? Very impressive this stuff is almost 60 years old and still working. It would of taken a beating on set and to still function after all this time too cool
I'm thankful that Jeff invited me to see it. I could not believe my eyes! Jeff, if you are out there. Thank you!
The noise from the motors driving the radar screens must have driven the sound man insane during filming.
In fact, when you consider all the doo-dads that were running at any one time during the space flight segments, that was probably one very noisy set.
In fact, you'll notice that the "Jacob's ladder" devices next to the freezing tubes were only seen operating in the pilot episodes and there is no live action sound when those shots were filmed. They would have played absolute hell with the sound recordings. They were never seen again in operation.
May be it's gotten just a bit crappy with age?
@@Mcfreddo Probably. But even brand new and well oiled, those little electric motors would generate quite a bit of electro-magnetic interference, easily picked up by the sound taping equipment if the microphones got too close. I would imagine more than a few takes were ruined by a buzzing hum interfering with the dialog.
@@HAL_NINER_TRIPLE_ZERO Or they had to overdub (in the studio) all of the flight deck dialog.
@@HAL_NINER_TRIPLE_ZERO Probably needed to loop a lot of the dialog if it was performed near the controls in operation. The director and DOP would have had to plan around the sound issues a lot to get the right coverage.
A record player turntable would have been quieter.
It all looked so futuristic and cool when you were 8.
Science fiction writers never seemed to have predicted touch screens, mechanical switches everywhere.
That radar screen is just a flat disc that is turning, could have made that from a record player. I think their imagination was limited to what could be created with the technology and budget they had available.
Nope, they couldn't ever predict that a 5'' touch screen could turn humanity into a bunch of mindless automatons. Give me analog switches any day.
They didn't predict screens at all. In the sixties and seventies shows, a computer was a big box with blinking lights. Which, in all fairness, is what early computers looked like. Amazingly, this stereotype lasted all the way to the nineties. If you look closely, in Jurassic Park, even though they're using Silicon Graphics computers, they still have boxes with blinking lights in the back of the operation room.
I was a young teenager when I saw a magazine article on "2001: A Space Odyssey," with color photos of the ships and interiors. It's hard to imagine the impact the professional-looking sets and viewscreen displays had on someone raised on Irwin Allen and 1950s SF.
To be fair, actual spacecraft of the time like Gemini and Apollo had panels that looked a lot more like Jupiter II hardware than "2001" hardware.
I love the tactile feel of physical switches way more than touch screen switches...
I saw the flight deck and got a picture of it on two seperate occasions at Wonderfest in Louisville. Tom Daughtery build an exact replica and takes it around country to Comic cons. It has appeared with Marta Kristen at various events. It is awesome! and very Quiet! 😂
Liked the polar motion effect of the astrogator display . What's the back story on the room it's set up in, and all the rubble around it?
Wonderful ! Thank u
A fellow industrial engineer and I visited 'Alpha Control' after three days at East Moriches in 1997 sorting through avionics systems 'portions' from Flight 800. That was the first time I found it necessary to argue with accounting over my expense account, they couldn't fight the 'would you rather have paid a bar tab?' logic
Wow. Those buttons and switches are shockingly responsive. You'd think almost none of them did anything.
Somebody has to take that jacket and sneakers out of the dryer though! 😁
I wonder if anybody ever built or will build a complete! replica upper or lower deck of the J2?! Imagine for ex. if your home looked like/& you slept & ate in a lower deck replica! i would think to replicate that working elevator would b insanely expensive. Recreating all the freezing tubes & 2 motorized airlock doors for an upper deck would b even worse - i guess the upper deck could b used as a living room. I would not want to leave!
I recognize all this stuff, is great to see!
Just amazing.
You are a gem sir.
God bless you and your family Brother 😊
May I PLEASE come over and play??
How in the world was all of this acquired/rescued?? I'm guessing the set in which they all reside (please appreciate impeccable grammar) is a rebuild, is it from thed original blueprints?
And *must* know, what the heck IS that gizmo in the center?
The middle section IS from the original Jupiter 2 set. The other pieces are "Fox" props, but from other shows assembled together here.
Fantastic
As a 9 year old kid back then, I bet that we believed that every switch and light had a real purpose...and that's what it would look like on its launch date of October 16, 1997.
this is great!
After seeing how these props were so noisy and rickety , can't imagine how hard it was to keep up with "The Voyage to The Bottom of The Sea" sets as they were blown up and set on fire nearly every episode ?
very cool
I didn't watch Lost In Space, I grew up on Star Trek in syndication in the '70s. (Lost in Space must not have had much syndication or I would have discovered that?)
I gotta say, the flight deck is actually nicer and much more detailed and realistic than the Star Trek bridge controls. Just smaller and less of it.
I can't imagine how they recorded dialogue over that sound effect, though. Is the sound much louder today due to aging bearings and so forth?
I'm interested in the Astrogator. I wonder what ever happened to it!
Good question - NO IDEA on that one...
Someone asked me if the glass(?) dome on it was the same thing used for the sub in Fantastic Voyage. A similar one was used in Star Trek "Devil In The Dark" and "The Alternative Factor"
I read in a fanzine a while back that after the shows cancellation someone saw it broken into pieces in a dumpster at the Fox Studios lot.
That is Super Cool 😎
WOW, was the set equipment REALLY that noisy in the 60s?!
Not too far north of Lake George, NY. some guy built a replica of the original Star Trek set and turned it into an attraction.
And Paramount didn't nuke him from orbit? Pardon mixed reference...
Is that the Elvis impersonator? I'm west of Rochester and wanted to do a tour of that set.
COOL!
Damn it's loud in there
You mention a town in NY. Where is this now?
No commentary on this? Just raw footage. Would like to know the backstory on this.
They used the same computers for the Batcave!
it would be quite back then ,its old!!
What time is lift off
Where is it now?
Didn't Jeff eventually sell this? I hope it's in a good home.
Yes - sadly he split it all up - not sure where it all ended up...
@MediaMasterDesign Oh man! That's a shame. I hope it's all being well taken care of.
Worst-case scenario for this kind of stuff. @@MoviesMusicMonsters :-/
Does Bill Hedges, the SuperFan, have any of it? By the way, a bit OT, some of the reel-to-reel computer machines from the Time Tunnel can be seen in the Russian computer lab scenes of The Americans.
It’s WHISPER QUIET!!!
Apparently, the two boxes at the top of the bridge console were repurposed from the original SAGE computer system after it was scrapped.
The Burroughs 205 control panels were everywhere in TV and film. Most notably the Batcave in 1966!
@@kustomkool Thanks for that - I had no idea!
The radar wasn't working.
Looks cool...theres no way they filmed with all that background noise, i dont know what they did different, but i know the set designers goal was illusion, not realistic noise creation.
They probably dubbed (looped) the dialog. It's more common than you would think. A lot of scenes shot outdoors in windy situations or with wind machines (which are very noisy) almost always have to be dubbed later.
Where is the flight deck now?
Where's the rest of the Flight Deck? All you are showing is the control panel.
That's all that was left of the entire set, sadly.
As a kid watching these shows, I would explain to my mother why it was all fake and none of it was real... Sadly, it still looks that way!
Was this at Jeff Story's?
Yes indeed... WAY back in the day... :)