{"id":1594,"date":"2009-05-05T21:03:54","date_gmt":"2009-05-06T04:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/2009\/05\/05\/first-star-trek-fan-film-made-by-kids-in-1969\/"},"modified":"2009-05-05T21:06:38","modified_gmt":"2009-05-06T04:06:38","slug":"first-star-trek-fan-film-made-by-kids-in-1969","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2009\/05\/05\/first-star-trek-fan-film-made-by-kids-in-1969\/","title":{"rendered":"First Star Trek Fan Film Made by Kids in 1969"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtube-video\"><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/kK9hXWpckdY\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/kK9hXWpckdY\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<p>Ha ha!&nbsp; This is great!&nbsp; <i>Jr. Star Trek<\/i> is one of the very first fan films ever made for the original <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Star_Trek\"><i>Star Trek<\/i><\/a> series.&nbsp; <i>Peter Emshwiller<\/i> made it in his house at the age of ten.&nbsp; It actually made its way onto PBS television and has been a feature of many Star Trek conventions over the years.&nbsp; Do kids still do this kind of thing?&nbsp; They should.&nbsp; What a fantastic effort and how much it must have taught the kids about making a movie.&nbsp; They somehow capture the atmosphere of the classic television show by taking it very seriously.&nbsp; Kids at that age didn&#8217;t see anything funny about Star Trek.&nbsp; Their imaginations and intellects were fired by the show and they revelled in its deeply optimistic vision of the future.<\/p>\n<p>You can read much more about this film and its maker at a great fan film blog from <i>Clive Young<\/i> called <a href=\"http:\/\/fancinematoday.com\/2009\/05\/05\/the-first-star-trek-fan-film-ever\/#more-3091\"><i>Fan Cinema Today<\/i><\/a>, which chronicles all things related to films made by fans.&nbsp; This kind of filmmaking has an important place in art and entertainment.&nbsp; Unauthorized films are an expression of profound interest and respect by fans who go this far with their endeavors.&nbsp; They extend the life of a fictional world that has been established in a particular medium and provide many people with an excellent outlet for their creative minds.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=a281e37e-60f0-8fda-bf4f-9096f6e09e22\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ha ha!&nbsp; This is great!&nbsp; Jr. Star Trek is one of the very first fan films ever made for the original Star Trek series.&nbsp; Peter Emshwiller made it in his house at the age of ten.&nbsp; It actually made its way onto PBS television and has been a feature of many Star Trek conventions over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,4,81],"tags":[174],"class_list":["post-1594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creativity","category-movies","category-science-fiction","tag-star-trek"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1594"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1599,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594\/revisions\/1599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}