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An authenticated GREG JEIN owned , STAR TREK ORIGINAL SERIES, PHOTO LOT

with RARE MSEI original press still featuring WILLIAM SHATNER & JOAN COLLINS FROM THE acclaimed STAR TREK ORIGINAL SERIES ( TOS) EPISODE:

'CITY ON EDGE OF FOREVER'

There are a total of 3 original 8x10 “ bordered gelatin silver photos in the lot , plus a annotated post it note referencing the MSEI photo and a small note about the photos written by Jein to a friend loaning these images out to someone named 'Nancy' for some unknown purpose. He seems familiar with this person and indicates how the images are to be returned and signs the note with his phone number.

One of the photos is an original SUPER RARE ORIGINAL MSEI PRESS PHOTO from “ City on the Edge of Forever” ,minus the informational snipe as indicated on the post it note penned by Greg Jein .

If you collect the rare MSEI ISSUED Star Trek publicity photos from Star Treks debut season NBC , this may be the ultimate MSEI photo.

There is also an annotation naming the episode on the photos reverse written in Jein’s hand. Jein has authenticated the photo as a genuine MSEI ISSUED press photo and the reverse of the photo further shows glue residue where the missing snipe had been attached.

See attached photos.

The MSEI Star Trek publicity press photos are highly sought after without the added provenance of coming from Greg Jein’s estate. The notes referencing the MSEI photo and the note only increase its value.

The vintage ORIGINAL photograph dates circa 1966 , and is accompanied by two other original photos featuring Shatner and Collins from the same time period. It is noted the two non MSEI photos are lesser quality , than the MSEI ISSUED photo but feature rare alternate takes of Shatner and Collins.

These items were purchased in a larger lot from a Los Angeles book and manuscript dealer and will include a copy of his letter of provenance .

The letter notes these items were obtained legally from the estate and were part of the contents of one of Jein’s homes in LA.

"The City on the Edge of Forever" is the twenty-eighth and penultimate episode of the first season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek. Written by Harlan Ellison, contributors and/or editors to the script included Steven W. Carabatsos, D. C. Fontana and Gene L. Coon. Gene Roddenberry made the final re-write. The episode was directed by Joseph Pevney and first aired on NBC on April 6, 1967, with a repeat broadcast on August 31, 1967.

The episode received widespread critical acclaim and has been frequently stated to be the best episode of the entire Star Trek franchise. Elements such as the tragic ending were highlighted by several reviewers. It won several awards, including the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Episodic Drama on Television (Ellison, 1967) and the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation (Ellison and Pevney, 1968).

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ABOUT GREG JEIN :

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. In 1975 he was contacted by Douglas Trumbull's office and asked to do some work on Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind. For that film Jein contributed a number of models including miniature landscapes for UFOs to fly over, but most significantly he and his crew built the detailed mothership model that features heavily in the final sequence of the film after Spielberg decided he wanted "a more flamboyant design". For their work Jein, Trumbull, Roy Arbogast, Matthew Yuricich, and Richard Yuricich were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects at the 50th Academy Awards, but lost to the team who produced the effects for Star Wars. Jein then went on to work on Spielberg's next film, 1941, where he and his team constructed a number of models including a twelve-foot model of the Ferris wheel that's dislodged from its mount and rolls down the pier and into the water. For their work on 1941 Jein, William A. Fraker and A. D. 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.

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