Magicam, Inc. was a relatively short-lived company specialized in building miniatures, located at Las Palmas Avenue, Los Angeles, Ca. The company, headed amongst others by vice-president Carey Melcher, 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 built 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, though, as of 2010, the company is still listed as one of the subsidiaries of current holding company Viacom.[1]

Model makers employed at the time of The Motion Picture:

• Larry Albright (sub-contractor)
• Peter Anderson
• David Asher
• Bruce Bishop
• Brad Bluth
• Bob Buckner
• Chris Crump
• Jim Dow (chief model maker)
• Chris Elliot
• Nick Esposet
• Lee Ettelman
• Joe Garlington
• Kriss Gregg
• Ron Gress
• Rick Gutierrez
• Dann Linck
• Chris Miller
• Tom Pahk
• Richard Raynis
• Chris Ross
• Dennis Schultz
• Russ Simpson
• Dick Singleton
• Mark Stetson
• Zuzana Swansea
• Rick Thompson
• Chris Tietz
• George Trimmer
• Paul Turner
• Steve Wilson

The only credits of the company after The Motion Picture were the TV shows Cosmos(1980) and The Greatest American Hero(1981).

ReferencesEdit

• David Houston, The Model Makers at Magicam, Starlog, issue 27, pp. 26-30
• James Dow, The Magicam Miniatures Constructed For Star Trek The Motion Picture, American Cinematographer, February 1980, pp. 152-155, 178-179, 186

External link Edit

• Magicam at the Internet Movie Database