Desilu Culver Stage 15
Desilu Culver Stage 15 was a soundstage located at Desilu's second lot in Culver City, California. The Culver lot served as an additional filming facility to Desilu's main studios at Gower Street, Hollywood. The Culver studios previously belonged to  and then , and were utilized most notably for filming  (photographed by Ernest Haller).

Stage 15 was used in filming the two pilots of ,  and .

For the former, the stage housed the bridge of the , the Orion courtyard, the Talosian underground complex and Pike's "Hell-Fire" illusion. Filming took place at Stage 15 between Wednesday  and Friday , Thursday  and Friday , and Wednesday  and Thursday . For the second pilot, Stage 15 also housed the bridge set, as well as all the Enterprise interiors. Filming took place between Monday  and Friday , and on Thursday .

According to the call sheet, this stage was used for the color makeup tests inside the "Menagerie" (the aforementioned Talosian underground facility) for the first pilot episode, "The Cage", on . Leonard Nimoy and Majel Barrett were listed with makeup calls at 9:00 am and 9:45 am. The shooting call was at 2:00 pm.

For the series itself, the Star Trek sets were moved to the main Desilu lot in Hollywood, where they occupied Desilu Stage 9 and Stage 10. In , Desilu/Paramount Television sold the Culver City lot to Perfect Film & Chemical Corporation.

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