FILM Destination: Monterey Bay Aquarium

SPHERE

DUSTIN HOFFMAN, SHARON STONE AND SAMUEL L. JACKSON; DIRECTED BY BARRY LEVINSON; WARNER BROS.; BASED ON THE MICHAEL CRICHTON NOVEL; SCIENCE FICTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL DRAMA ABOUT A GROUP OF SCIENTISTS WHO GO TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA TO EXPLORE AN ALIEN SPACECRAFT THAT CRASHED INTO THE MIDDLE OF THE PACIFIC OCEAN IN 1709; DELICATE GOLDEN-ORANGE SEA NETTLE JELLIES AT THE MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM STOOD IN FOR TERRIFYING KILLERS; JELLIES FILMED AT THE AQUARIUM’S OUTER BAY GALLERIES BY A FILM CREW THAT CAME DOWN FROM VALLEJO, WHERE THE SETS FOR “SPHERE” WERE CREATED IN HUGE DRYDOCKS AT THE FORMER MARE ISLAND NAVAL SHIPYARDS ON SAN FRANCISCO BAY.

STAR TREK IV: THE VOYAGE HOME

The Star Trek crew goes back in time to 1986 in San Francisco to save the whales; Oscar nominee for Cinematography and Musical Score; Scenes filmed at the Monterey Aquarium, which stood in for a fictitious aquarium across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco; The San Francisco Skyline appears on the screen, put there by Hollywood artists, as a back drop to outdoor filming at the back of the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Jane Wyatt, & Deforest Kelley

The Voyage Home, Nimoy, and Paramount Films