Props, costumes and production print

Major Hollywood auction puts rare print up for sale

A trifold leaflet printed for Jurassic Park, featuring Japanese and English entry information, is among the lots
A trifold leaflet printed for Jurassic Park, featuring Japanese and English entry information, is among the lots

A massive Hollywood film memorabilia auction has gone live, putting millions of dollars’ worth of props, costumes, and collectable print up for sale.

Scheduled for August 15-18, the mega-auction features collectables from the past 70 years of Hollywood filmmaking, with everything from Michael Keaton’s Batman’s six-foot Batwing to Indiana Jones’ screen-matched fedora up for grabs.

Plenty of print is available for those with the money to spend: printers can become the proud owners of the 56x74cm printed Declaration of Independence, stolen by Nicholas Cage in National Treasure (2004) for a guide price of £4,600 - £9,200; complete sets of scripts from Star Trek series and films; and even Back to the Future Part II (1989)’s famous Grays Sports Almanac.

The Almanac, bought by Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) and then used by Biff to fix bets in the past, was printed with custom front- and back-covers affixed to a real-world copy of an almanac dated 1984. Signed by Christopher Lloyd, who played Emmett ‘Doc’ Brown and Thomas Wilson, who played Biff, the book is expected to reach bids of £7,700 - £15,400.

The auction even includes a commercial opportunity for printers – a set of 35mm negatives and contact sheets shot by visual effects pioneer Douglas Turnbull during the production of 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).

The set of six manilla folders, containing nearly 200 negatives, their digital scans, and 400 contact sheet images, also includes the copyright to Turnbull’s images.

Printers can likewise bid on an original Wonka bar, made from 9x16cm compressed board, with painted edges, from 1971’s Willy Wonka And the Chocolate Factory, starting at £3,800 – golden ticket not included.

An original Jurassic Park visitor brochure, starting at £960, is likewise up for sale. The trifold pamphlet, measuring 21x9.5cm folded, was created as true-to-life as possible, complete with map, admission information in English and Japanese, and even a period-accurate advert for Kodak Gold Plus photographic film.

Registration for the sale runs until the sale dates on August 15-18, with all 1,912 lots available to view here