Star Trek The Videotape
Golden Age Film; Long Film (Drama)
This is a 1981 student / fan film made for a media class assignment, animating plastic models against a blue screen and using practical effects. At this time there was no internet for reference or digital equipment or software to aid the production. It was shot and edited at the local community cable studio. It was released on the YouTube channel 'brtv' who said, "The opening and closing stills were made in Blender 3.1 and theis production was edited in Davinci Resolve 18"
Star Trek The Videotape
12min 36sec — 01 January 1981
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/NgoaKPNbS-Y
Our ReviewNormally we don't list fan films with just CGI on them but, because this was made in 1981, this could be one of the first examples of the use of green screen filming on a fan film.
