NEWS REAL\Stepping into the picture\Sets from popular films, TV shows re-created for academy exhibit.

Byline: Lori Moody

The Flintstones have left Bedrock for tonier digs in Beverly Hills.

Fred and Wilma's living room has been relocated to the Fourth Floor Gallery of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 8949 Wilshire Blvd.

Visitors also can see the nightclub from "The Mask," a laboratory from "Addams Family Values," a Klingon bridge from "Star Trek Generations" and "techno-reality" from "Natural Born Killers."

Original props, furnishings and artwork from other films, including "Legends of the Fall," "Get Shorty," "Bridges of Madison County" "Red Rock West" "A Walk in the Clouds" and "Dracula: Dead and Loving It," also are in the exhibit, which runs through March 17.

"Each of the rooms we've re-created you can really walk into," said Ellen Harrington, special events and exhibitions coordinator. "When you sit in the Flintstones' living room, you'll really feel you're in that environment. You can touch it. That's the great thing about this exhibit. Most people don't get to go on movie sets."

The exhibition is being presented in collaboration with the Set Decorators' Society of America, a nonprofit professional group, which formed in 1993 and is housed in the Pacific Design Center.

Gallery hours are from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Friday and from noon to 6 p.m. weekends. Admission is free. For information, call [phone].

"It shows really how diverse each of these looks have to be in order for a viewer to look at the space within a movie and view it as a believable place for those characters to be living and doing their thing," Harrington said.

The academy holds six to eight exhibitions a year that often focus on the behind-the-scenes craftsmen and artisans involved in movie making.

Robert Zilliox, president of the Set Decorators' Society, said that he hopes visitors to the exhibit take away a better sense of the role of the set decorator who works with the production designer, art director, among others, to create the surroundings for the characters in a movie or TV show.

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Photo (1) "When you sit in the Flintstones' living room, you'll really feel you're in that environment. You can touch it," says one exhibit official. (2) Visitors to the Fourth Floor Gallery of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences can see a Klingon bridge from "Star Trek Generations." (3) Wanna-be mom Delta Burke seeks revenge in "Maternal Instincts," at 9 tonight on the USA Network.