The Most Revealing Behind-the-Scenes Photos From the Greg Jein Collection

THE ‘USS ENTERPRISE,’ THE BATCAVE, SUPERMAN’S FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE AND TATOOINE LIKE YOU’VE NEVER SEEN THEM BEFORE

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then the press and production photos in Greg Jein’s vast assemblage could fill volumes. The legendary Hollywood model-maker whose collection Heritage Auctions will offer October 14-15 amassed thousands of images from some of the most significant movies and television shows in entertainment history. Among the lots are candid shots from the sets of Star Wars and Star Trek, Batman and Superman, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and 2001: A Space Odyssey, each image offering a glimpse of what goes on between takes as actors, directors, prop masters and camera operators make Hollywood magic happen. For a peek behind the curtain, check out these fascinating on-set images from the Greg Jein Collection.

The Enterprise boldly going to a blue screen where no one has gone before
Beneath stately Wayne Manor, the bowels of the Batcave
Director Stanley Kubrick and Gary Lockwood on the set of 2001: A Space Odyssey
The original transporter room from the first Star Trek pilot, “The Cage”
Susan Oliver gets a touch-up as an Orion slave girl in “The Cage”
Director Richard Donner had a front row seat in Superman’s Fortress of Solitude
Walter Koenig gets a lift on the set of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Adam West and Burt Ward are ready for their holy close-up, Batman!
The bridge of the USS Enterprise
Greg Jein helped design the mothership from Close Encounters of the Third Kind, seen here in its full-size glory
Gene Roddenberry, creator of Star Trek
Somewhere on the backlot, Batman meets the Green Hornet
I’m a doctor, not a director: Majel Barrett as Nurse Chapel and DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy on the set of Star Trek
William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy prepare to meet V’ger in Star Trek: The Motion Picture
A menagerie of aliens from Star Trek: The Motion Picture
George Lucas and an Imperial Stormtrooper on the Tunisian set of 1977’s Star Wars
Williams Shatner and Campbell on the set of the Star Trek episode “The Squire of Gothos”
Ricardo Montalban gets a “visit” from his Fantasy Island castmate Hervé Villechaize on the set of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Before Greedo – no, wait, Han Solo – shot first, George Lucas directed this Star Wars scene from the Mos Eisley Cantina
Witness the firepower of this fully armed and operational and electrical-taped battle station, the Death Star
Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley and William Shatner on the set of the landmark Star Trek episode “Plato’s Stepchildren”
The Millennium Falcon prepares to make the jump to hyperspace
The renovated Enterprise that first took flight in Star Trek: The Motion Picture

THE GREG JEIN COLLECTION HOLLYWOOD PLATINUM SIGNATURE® AUCTION 7278
October 14-15, 2023
Online: HA.com/7278
INQUIRIES
Joe Maddalena
214.409.1511
JM@HA.com

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