Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Leonard Nimoy Demonstrates Magnavision LaserDisc Player

Forget Blu-Ray or watching movies on your iPad and such, for the absolute height of cutting-edge video technology, one must absorb this 1981 demonstration of the Magnavision LaserDisc Player by Leonard Nimoy! (Aside from the player, where can I get an intelligent crystal lifeform that communicates in beeps like R2-D2?)



Bonus: another YouTube video, this time from 1966 during early interviews with Shatner and Nimoy in full makeup and costume. What a find!



Bonus: another version of a familiar pose, from an early promotional photoshoot of Nimoy as Spock, taken before the production of the second pilot.

5 comments:

  1. AnonymousApril 6, 2013 at 2:56 AM

    Uncanny resolution! It's almost as if ABBA were right there in the room!!! I'm chucking Blu-ray and making the Magnavision scene.

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  2. FrederickApril 6, 2013 at 7:34 PM

    It's the only logical thing to do.

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  3. AnonymousApril 7, 2013 at 7:18 AM

    I'd say this was after the second pilot, judging by Nimoy's collar. Thank for these amazing posts and photographs!

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  4. David LandonApril 8, 2013 at 2:17 PM

    Of course he understands the beep-language of a hunk of sentient crystal. He's Leonard Nimoy!

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  5. FrederickApril 8, 2013 at 2:57 PM

    David,
    No doubt mind-melding with the Horta gave him an insight into the language of rocks!

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