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The Nostromo bridge set contained some 40 video monitors, [21] all of which were fully functional — any footage seen on the various screens in the movie was played for real during filming. Xenopedia Explore. The Queen Ripley Newt Cpl. Hicks Burke Bishop Pvt. Hudson Lt. Gorman Pvt. Vasquez Sgt. Pilgrim Pope. Predator Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem Predators Prometheus. Predator: The Duel Aliens vs.

Predator Aliens: Colonial Marines Aliens vs. The Hive. Duplis C. Duplis Maio Craig Windrix Alien 40th anniversary short films. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? View source. History Talk Do you like this video? Play Sound. It's gone down in the 'lost without trace' files. The Nostromo orbiting above a planet. Note the tracking devices on the table. The description of the Nostromo on the Halcyon model's box.

Eaglemoss Collections model of the Nostromo. The set of one of the Nostromo' s landing gear. Ron Cobb 's "Semiotic Standard" symbols, as seen aboard the Nostromo. Digital recreation of Cobb's Semiotic Standard symbols. Polaroid images measuring approximately 3. Alien: The Blueprints , p. Aliens: Colonial Marines Technical Manual , p. Alien: The Weyland-Yutani Report , p.

Alien , p. So I decided to do a little test, comparing weights to footage from the film Figure 4. The Demi R seems a little narrow overall. And the counter space in the Demi O seems a little big. When I drop a T in there, the Demi Bold looks like the closer match by far. My best guess is this was set in Pump Bold that was trimmed or redrawn by hand, and subsequently made lighter in weight.

Or they time travelled to to bring back Demi. Believe what you want here. For the name plates, I found a larger image online Figure 4. All of the crew insignia can be seen in Figure 5. He was also an expert on the history of military wear, a subject he published a number of books on, and something that would inform his work on Alien and other science fiction films.

For instance, the Nostromo patches were inspired by military uniform buttons of the French Restoration Period Figure 5. After consultation with Ridley I experimented with some variations; some without the rainbow and finally, one with the rainbow that was eventually used.

For the registration number variantly on screens and in dialogue , it looks like he avoided any Pump reference there, and went with something less stylized. Outside of military references, I also wondered if it could have been inspired by insignia used in space exploration.

It embraces man and extends to the tree and hydrogen atom, emphasizing man's pivotal role in the conciliation of technology with nature by a humanistic application of our scientific knowledge. Beyond the biblical story of the flood, the rainbow appears as a symbol in other cultures, which could offer a clue to other possible meanings.

In Greco-Roman mythology, the rainbow was considered to be a path made by a messenger, between Earth and Heaven — and the Nostromo moves resources between Earth and Space, right? Similarly, in Norse mythology, the rainbow is a bridge between Earth and the celestial realm of the Gods. Interesting to think about, but all speculation on how it could relate.

There were also two different background colors used for the Nostromo patch — grey and dark blue. The dark blue version was available on a collectible cap though Figure 5. So it seems possible they were more concerned with justifying the design decisions they made for their Alien merch, than squaring things with the film. And Brett may have accidentally had a dark blue patch for a fraction of a second — in his death scene, apparently the FX team used a prepared hat with a paper patch over a hole that could be easily punched through, and people have pointed out that it looks like they used the wrong version in that instance.

Figure 5. Source: invaluable. Source: Starlog Magazine , Nov Source: Starlog Magazine , June First, a larger set of the wings Figure 6. The light blue on white embroidered patch is the most common, worn by most of the officers. We also see older braided versions of these wings — a gold braid version worn by Captain Dallas, and a silver braid version worn by Executive Officer Kane.

The form of these braided versions is more organic or natural in its outline, as opposed to the newer versions, which stay truer to the more geometric Weylan-Yutani logo with its overall rectangular shape. The Authorized Portfolio of Crew Insignias explains the braided versions as older and having been replaced with the newer embroidered style, so this implies senior officers Dallas and Kane have been with the Company for a good amount of time.

Reinforcing this in the film, these braided wings also look more tattered and worn around the edges, than the embroidered patches. There are also smaller wings Figure 6. See the Research entry for Weylan-Yutani to view screen images covering all variations of the wings insignia.

Figure 6. Figure 7. It features red bars. The crew also display small brass badges, denoting their role and technical function aboard the Nostromo. There are four types. A circular badge, featuring horizontal bars in red, is used for Executive Officers. Dallas, Kane, and Ripley can all be seen wearing one, usually on the left breast of their shirt or jacket Figure 7. At times, Dallas can be seen wearing his on the left shirt pocket flap Figure 7.

One other place where the Executive Officer badge makes an unexpected appearance, is on the space suit. In the documentary film, The Alien Legacy , John Mollo points out that the badge design was added to the shoulder armor of the space suit, where it can be seen in the circular outcropping at the top of the piece Figure 7.

Regarding the design, bars are a fairly common element used by military forces around the world to display rank 7. This is worn by Ash — very much the Company man, he displays one on each collar of his shirt, and on his belt buckle. Figures 7. This is worn by Lambert, one on the left breast of her vest.

As the badge title suggests, this was inspired by star charts. Both Parker and Brett should wear these badges, but as demonstrated with their attire, they take a pretty relaxed approach to Company dress code. I mean, they are only getting half shares anyways, so who can blame them?

For example, the Imperial Japanese military wore bar insignia on their coat or shirt collars to indicate rank. From here in the present day, we can see that modern military forces still uphold and exhibit visual traditions from the distant past. Humans like to remember, and pay homage to their heritage.

Take the badges Mollo designed for the Nostromo crew, to denote their technical functions. The Engineering badge appears to feature a combustion engine from an airplane. You may ask, why should that be the case? Or take the Navigation badge, that bears a resemblance to hemispherical star charts used in celestial navigation of the skies and seas on Earth. These things would be so outdated; what place do they have in the future, in the far reaches of space?

I would argue that tradition, and paying homage to the origins of those technical roles, is a very real thing we could expect to see in the future. Maybe even as far out as the year And I think Cobb grasped that, and Mollo especially did, with his scholarly knowledge of the history and evolution of military dress.

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Given the massive scale of the craft, and the fact that it spends most of its existence in space where very little of its exterior would even be seen, this makes a lot of sense. Anything beyond that, plastering some giant logo, or multiple logos and graphics all over the craft, would just be a large waste of time and effort.

But those surfaces are smooth and relatively flat, compared to the craggy surface topography of the Nostromo. That said, I think the filmmakers were smart with their overall design restraint. Viewed from the inside, the Nostromo is again, a product of function and necessity. There are graphics, but very little in the way of a visual identity system.

All in all, I think this is a good thing. It seems realistic enough for a retrofitted blue-collar, working-class ship. Inadvertently, they may have also dodged the risk of dating the film with bygone design trends. I address this in the section that follows.

Figure 3. April 26, Figure 4. Only one was available in , so it should be Pump Bold. But Demi looks closer to the proper weight. And it is also used on name plates for the crew. Designed in the s by Philip Kelley at Letraset, Pump was based on geometry found in Universal — a typeface designed in by Herbert Bayer for use in Bauhaus communications. For instance, I've also found geometric sans faces like Pump, Burko, Blippo, etc. But like many geometric typefaces contemporary to Pump, it was also embraced by the pop and disco culture of the seventies, and I think that is what really dates it for audiences at present.

They likely see it as a product of another time — a past time when things were funkier. With that little history lesson behind us, we can now get back to how Pump was applied in Alien. The exact weight we see used for the jackets is somewhat questionable.

Every instance of Pump Demi Bold I could find on actual letter sheets, had it copyrighted in as well. So I decided to do a little test, comparing weights to footage from the film Figure 4. The Demi R seems a little narrow overall. And the counter space in the Demi O seems a little big. When I drop a T in there, the Demi Bold looks like the closer match by far. My best guess is this was set in Pump Bold that was trimmed or redrawn by hand, and subsequently made lighter in weight.

Or they time travelled to to bring back Demi. Believe what you want here. For the name plates, I found a larger image online Figure 4. All of the crew insignia can be seen in Figure 5. He was also an expert on the history of military wear, a subject he published a number of books on, and something that would inform his work on Alien and other science fiction films.

For instance, the Nostromo patches were inspired by military uniform buttons of the French Restoration Period Figure 5. After consultation with Ridley I experimented with some variations; some without the rainbow and finally, one with the rainbow that was eventually used.

For the registration number variantly on screens and in dialogue , it looks like he avoided any Pump reference there, and went with something less stylized. Outside of military references, I also wondered if it could have been inspired by insignia used in space exploration. It embraces man and extends to the tree and hydrogen atom, emphasizing man's pivotal role in the conciliation of technology with nature by a humanistic application of our scientific knowledge.

Beyond the biblical story of the flood, the rainbow appears as a symbol in other cultures, which could offer a clue to other possible meanings. In Greco-Roman mythology, the rainbow was considered to be a path made by a messenger, between Earth and Heaven — and the Nostromo moves resources between Earth and Space, right? Similarly, in Norse mythology, the rainbow is a bridge between Earth and the celestial realm of the Gods.

Interesting to think about, but all speculation on how it could relate. There were also two different background colors used for the Nostromo patch — grey and dark blue. The dark blue version was available on a collectible cap though Figure 5. So it seems possible they were more concerned with justifying the design decisions they made for their Alien merch, than squaring things with the film. And Brett may have accidentally had a dark blue patch for a fraction of a second — in his death scene, apparently the FX team used a prepared hat with a paper patch over a hole that could be easily punched through, and people have pointed out that it looks like they used the wrong version in that instance.

Figure 5. Source: invaluable. Source: Starlog Magazine , Nov Source: Starlog Magazine , June First, a larger set of the wings Figure 6. The light blue on white embroidered patch is the most common, worn by most of the officers. We also see older braided versions of these wings — a gold braid version worn by Captain Dallas, and a silver braid version worn by Executive Officer Kane.

The form of these braided versions is more organic or natural in its outline, as opposed to the newer versions, which stay truer to the more geometric Weylan-Yutani logo with its overall rectangular shape. The Authorized Portfolio of Crew Insignias explains the braided versions as older and having been replaced with the newer embroidered style, so this implies senior officers Dallas and Kane have been with the Company for a good amount of time.

Reinforcing this in the film, these braided wings also look more tattered and worn around the edges, than the embroidered patches. There are also smaller wings Figure 6. See the Research entry for Weylan-Yutani to view screen images covering all variations of the wings insignia. Figure 6. Figure 7. It features red bars. The crew also display small brass badges, denoting their role and technical function aboard the Nostromo.

There are four types. A circular badge, featuring horizontal bars in red, is used for Executive Officers. Dallas, Kane, and Ripley can all be seen wearing one, usually on the left breast of their shirt or jacket Figure 7. At times, Dallas can be seen wearing his on the left shirt pocket flap Figure 7. One other place where the Executive Officer badge makes an unexpected appearance, is on the space suit.

In the documentary film, The Alien Legacy , John Mollo points out that the badge design was added to the shoulder armor of the space suit, where it can be seen in the circular outcropping at the top of the piece Figure 7. Regarding the design, bars are a fairly common element used by military forces around the world to display rank 7.

This is worn by Ash — very much the Company man, he displays one on each collar of his shirt, and on his belt buckle. Figures 7. This is worn by Lambert, one on the left breast of her vest. As the badge title suggests, this was inspired by star charts. Both Parker and Brett should wear these badges, but as demonstrated with their attire, they take a pretty relaxed approach to Company dress code.

I mean, they are only getting half shares anyways, so who can blame them? For example, the Imperial Japanese military wore bar insignia on their coat or shirt collars to indicate rank. From here in the present day, we can see that modern military forces still uphold and exhibit visual traditions from the distant past.

Humans like to remember, and pay homage to their heritage. Take the badges Mollo designed for the Nostromo crew, to denote their technical functions. The Engineering badge appears to feature a combustion engine from an airplane. However, after the model unit had spent several weeks filming the model, Scott decided to repaint the ship grey and reshoot all of the model work himself.

At one point, the refinery being towed by the Nostromo featured towering spires considerably higher than those that appear in the final film, but just before filming Ridley Scott personally removed the upper sections allegedly with a hammer and chisel. To film the sequence, the Nostromo was pushed away from the refinery by the forklift — which was concealed under black velvet — causing the arm to extend out from the refinery, creating the illusion that the arm was pushing the ship forward.

The interior of the Nostromo was designed by conceptual artist Ron Cobb. The set constructed for filming was all interconnected and largely sealed, meaning cast and crew had to walk through the various corridors and chambers to reach other areas of the ship. Several crew members commented that the confines of the intricate set meant filming was more akin to shooting on location than in a studio, and that the interior's enclosed nature helped to create a feeling of claustrophobia appropriate to the film.

To compensate, some of the roof sections were constructed of clear plastic that allowed natural light from the studio outside to filter through, but even so, sometimes actors had to resort to holding the flamethrower they were carrying close to their face so that the pilot flame would illuminate them for the cameras.

The Mother interface room was designed to mimic a niche in a cathedral, with the myriad of blinking lights representing candles. Much of the ship's interior was fully functional, in that many of the various buttons actually performed some function when activated. The Nostromo bridge set contained some 40 video monitors, [21] all of which were fully functional — any footage seen on the various screens in the movie was played for real during filming.

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Designed by John Mollo. Gold version of Company logo to be worn by Captain, displayed on left breast over heart on all uniforms. Note: This patch replaces older braided version formerly issued. Silver version of Company logo to be worn by Executive Officer, displayed on left breast over heart on all uniforms.

Light blue version of Company logo to be worn by Officers, displayed on left breast over heart on all uniforms. May be used in place of C,D,E above when necessary. Display over heart, under Weylan-Yutani wings. Triangle should point up. Note: Issuance discontinued, but remains acceptable to Company. Designed by Ron Cobb. Wear restricted to personnel transferred from U.

Display on left breast. Insignias indicate technical functions. Display one on each collar, or alternatively, one on left breast above Weylan-Yutani wings. Also displayed on Company issue belt buckles optional. Note: A red stamp is also available for use, where decals are not suitable. My goal was to reflect as closely as possible what what was seen in the film, so this required some modification and additions to what was outlined in that somewhat inaccurate source document.

This is a theme that has been carried through the Alien franchise for the naming of other spacecraft as well. The craft is also assigned a registration number of Figure 1. As the commercial designation suggests, The Nostromo is a working-class spacecraft, and it is owned and operated by the megacorporation Weylan-Yutani. Presumably it was also manufactured by Weylan-Yutani, and specs for the retrofitted vehicle can be seen in original drawings by Ron Cobb Figure 1.

Notably, at no time in the film is Weylan-Yutani mentioned by name. Figure 1. Source: Alien: The Archive. Source: The Book of Alien. Figure 2. Here we see more exterior graphics, and what might be a logotype, applied to the exterior. Director Ridley Scott made the decision to lose the yellow paint job. Source: Alien Makers. They read , which does not match the registration number used to identify the Nostromo.

Source: Wikipedia. Even on those produced by Cobb, that would end up being the closest approximations of the final constructed design, we still see color graphics Figure 2. I assume the yellow was considered for its real-world application on present-day terrestrial vehicles of industrial nature, and it definitely would have given the ship a more branded appearance.

After a pile of sketches was hastily shuffled off to the FX crew and work began, the yellow paint job at least, had initially found its way onto the Nostromo models they built. But seeing that, director Ridley Scott ultimately made the call to strip the exterior down to the gray metal finish that made it into the film Figure 1. Do you see? Even the military tends to slap a number and insignia on vehicles.

I believe this was painted over though, as it does not appear to have made it into the actual film. But in the scene where we see Ripley making her escape in the Narcissus, we definitely see the blue Weylan-Yutani wings logo in two places Figure 2. And in the same shot, to the right of the blue lights marking an airlock, we see the Weylan-Yutani wings stacked vertically between the numbers 56 and 23 Figure 2.

As far as I can tell, this is the only branding on the exterior of the ship. Which basically marks it as owned and operated by Weylan-Yutani, and identifies and ties the lifeboat shuttle with the Nostromo. Given the massive scale of the craft, and the fact that it spends most of its existence in space where very little of its exterior would even be seen, this makes a lot of sense.

Anything beyond that, plastering some giant logo, or multiple logos and graphics all over the craft, would just be a large waste of time and effort. But those surfaces are smooth and relatively flat, compared to the craggy surface topography of the Nostromo. That said, I think the filmmakers were smart with their overall design restraint.

Viewed from the inside, the Nostromo is again, a product of function and necessity. There are graphics, but very little in the way of a visual identity system. All in all, I think this is a good thing. It seems realistic enough for a retrofitted blue-collar, working-class ship. Inadvertently, they may have also dodged the risk of dating the film with bygone design trends. I address this in the section that follows. Figure 3. April 26, Figure 4. Only one was available in , so it should be Pump Bold.

But Demi looks closer to the proper weight. And it is also used on name plates for the crew. Designed in the s by Philip Kelley at Letraset, Pump was based on geometry found in Universal — a typeface designed in by Herbert Bayer for use in Bauhaus communications. For instance, I've also found geometric sans faces like Pump, Burko, Blippo, etc. But like many geometric typefaces contemporary to Pump, it was also embraced by the pop and disco culture of the seventies, and I think that is what really dates it for audiences at present.

They likely see it as a product of another time — a past time when things were funkier. With that little history lesson behind us, we can now get back to how Pump was applied in Alien. The exact weight we see used for the jackets is somewhat questionable.

Every instance of Pump Demi Bold I could find on actual letter sheets, had it copyrighted in as well. So I decided to do a little test, comparing weights to footage from the film Figure 4. The Demi R seems a little narrow overall.

And the counter space in the Demi O seems a little big. When I drop a T in there, the Demi Bold looks like the closer match by far. My best guess is this was set in Pump Bold that was trimmed or redrawn by hand, and subsequently made lighter in weight. Or they time travelled to to bring back Demi. Believe what you want here.

For the name plates, I found a larger image online Figure 4. All of the crew insignia can be seen in Figure 5. He was also an expert on the history of military wear, a subject he published a number of books on, and something that would inform his work on Alien and other science fiction films.

For instance, the Nostromo patches were inspired by military uniform buttons of the French Restoration Period Figure 5. After consultation with Ridley I experimented with some variations; some without the rainbow and finally, one with the rainbow that was eventually used. For the registration number variantly on screens and in dialogue , it looks like he avoided any Pump reference there, and went with something less stylized.

Outside of military references, I also wondered if it could have been inspired by insignia used in space exploration. It embraces man and extends to the tree and hydrogen atom, emphasizing man's pivotal role in the conciliation of technology with nature by a humanistic application of our scientific knowledge.

To help ensure the recovery of the creature, Nostromo' s science officer was replaced two days before the ship left Thedus with Ash , a Synthetic sleeper agent who, under Special Order , was to assist in the recovery of a Xenomorph by any means necessary, even at the expense of the rest of the crew. Nostromo set down on LV on June 3, Dallas elected to take off from LV, despite the fact several non-critical systems had yet to be repaired.

Once underway, the Alien that birthed from Kane began stalking and slaughtering the crew, whose efforts at fighting the creature were hampered both by Ash and, more generally, by the fact it remained on the lower engineering decks, where the security camera systems were still inoperable following the electrical damage caused on LV Only Warrant Officer Ellen Ripley survived to make the escape, along with the ship's cat Jones , while Nostromo and its cargo were completely destroyed by the ship's emergency destruction system.

The apparent disappearance of Nostromo was subject to large amounts of news coverage, with speculation as to the cause of its destruction ranging from stray debris to an "uncatalogued asteroid". Company personnel who had given the ship its secret mission to LV destroyed all records of ever having done so, along with any information regarding the warning signal being transmitted by the derelict ship on LV The Nostromo' s name was taken from the eponymous hero of the novel Nostromo by Joseph Conrad.

The ship was originally called the Snark , after the Lewis Carroll poem The Hunting of the Snark , [15] then later the Leviathan , [16] before Ridley Scott chose the name Nostromo due to his love of Conrad's works.

Three scale models of the Nostromo were made for filming: a inch 30 cm version for medium and long shots, a 4-foot 1. The latter of these was so large it could only be moved using a forklift truck, which would plug into two slots on the back of the model. Most of the fine surface details were added from model kits of battleships, tanks and World War II bombers, while the miniature of the attached refinery contained parts from several Star Wars model kits in its construction — the release mechanism that secures the Nostromo to the refinery featured the legs of R2-D2 as decorations on its upper surface, [18] while the refinery's underside incorporated panels from Darth Vader's TIE fighter.

Filming of the miniatures took place at Bray Studios near Maidenhead, Berkshire. The Nostromo models were originally painted yellow. However, after the model unit had spent several weeks filming the model, Scott decided to repaint the ship grey and reshoot all of the model work himself. At one point, the refinery being towed by the Nostromo featured towering spires considerably higher than those that appear in the final film, but just before filming Ridley Scott personally removed the upper sections allegedly with a hammer and chisel.

To film the sequence, the Nostromo was pushed away from the refinery by the forklift — which was concealed under black velvet — causing the arm to extend out from the refinery, creating the illusion that the arm was pushing the ship forward. The interior of the Nostromo was designed by conceptual artist Ron Cobb. The set constructed for filming was all interconnected and largely sealed, meaning cast and crew had to walk through the various corridors and chambers to reach other areas of the ship.

Several crew members commented that the confines of the intricate set meant filming was more akin to shooting on location than in a studio, and that the interior's enclosed nature helped to create a feeling of claustrophobia appropriate to the film. To compensate, some of the roof sections were constructed of clear plastic that allowed natural light from the studio outside to filter through, but even so, sometimes actors had to resort to holding the flamethrower they were carrying close to their face so that the pilot flame would illuminate them for the cameras.

The Mother interface room was designed to mimic a niche in a cathedral, with the myriad of blinking lights representing candles. Much of the ship's interior was fully functional, in that many of the various buttons actually performed some function when activated.

The Nostromo bridge set contained some 40 video monitors, [21] all of which were fully functional — any footage seen on the various screens in the movie was played for real during filming. Xenopedia Explore. The Queen Ripley Newt Cpl. Hicks Burke Bishop Pvt. Hudson Lt. Gorman Pvt. Vasquez Sgt. Pilgrim Pope. Predator Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem Predators Prometheus. Predator: The Duel Aliens vs.