Template:Realworld 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]
Part of Magicam's modelshop team. From left to right standing, Zuzana Swansea, Chris Elliot, Ron Gress and sitting, Mark Stetson, Dennis Schultz, Russ Simpson and Andy Probert
Busy day at Magicam's workshop. From left to right, Mark Stetson, Russ Simpson, Scott Farrar (visitor), Ron Gress, Kris Gregg and Bruce Bishop in the lower right.
Model makers employed at the time of The Motion Picture:
- Larry Albright
- 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).
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