It’s a single frame, where they would make a mask of the person and run the same film on that part every single time. The film they used was a slow motion shot of falling metal dust, upside down.
It probably took minutes to make those shots once they had the stock footage made.
That might be a later thing? Aluminum dust is what they describe in “The making of Star trek” (a book by Roddenberry and Whitfield, doubt it’s still in print though)
It’s a single frame, where they would make a mask of the person and run the same film on that part every single time. The film they used was a slow motion shot of falling metal dust, upside down.
It probably took minutes to make those shots once they had the stock footage made.
I swear I read it was gold glitter in water that was swirled
That’s what I read many years ago. They probably used both methods.
That might be a later thing? Aluminum dust is what they describe in “The making of Star trek” (a book by Roddenberry and Whitfield, doubt it’s still in print though)
It could have been other fx they did or from another show/movie altogether
TIL, TY.
I still prefer TOS-style transporters, despite being fancier and more sparkly by ST: TMP.