00:30What we have here today is just a very finely curated selection of the thousand lots that
00:51are going under the hammer on September the 4th to the 6th in Los Angeles.
00:56These are essentially some of the highlights, we'd love to have bought more, there are some
00:59incredible artifacts in this sale, but we've got things from Darth Vader's hero lightsaber,
01:06Indiana Jones's whip, Jane Fonda's costume from Barbarella, a clapperboard from Jaws, and
01:12of course Sauron's helmet from Lord of the Rings as well, some astonishing and amazing
01:16artifacts.
01:21Yeah, this is the star item from our upcoming auction, our September Entertainment Memorabilia
01:29live auction.
01:30This is Darth Vader's dueling lightsaber, so this is the one that he used to fight Luke
01:34Skywalker, Mark Hamill, in the climactic duels in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the
01:38Jedi, which of course were shot here in the UK at Elstree Studios.
01:44The lightsaber itself is built out of what is called a micro flash, which is essentially
01:49a flash attachment for an old press camera made by a company called MPP Micro Precision Products,
01:54which is a British company.
01:55And you can see there's a clamp here.
01:58This is where the flash would attach to the body of an old press camera.
02:01This is 1940s, 1950s era.
02:04And at the top, a flash bulb would mount and there would be a big reflector behind it.
02:09And it's just like what you see in movies where they're depicting the press of the 1940s,
02:14a big flash bulb goes off.
02:16That's what this was.
02:17The interior is designed to take big batteries, and they did a lot of that with Star Wars.
02:23They did a lot of finding real world objects and converting them into props, you know.
02:28Oh, cool.
02:29Any lightsaber specific questions?
02:30Okay.
02:31Yeah.
02:32So I've moved over from Steve and he sent him.
02:37Yeah, this is an original set used in the making of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
02:43So it's not just his bullwhip, which of course is his, you know, memorable weapon tool that
02:48he carries in all the Indiana Jones films.
02:50It's also an original leather belt and what they call the whip holster, which is essentially
02:55this strip of leather with the strap on it that is used to bind the whole thing to his
03:01belt.
03:02So this was used specifically as a set in production.
03:04You can see there's some little metal ties on there, and that's how the props department
03:09kept it together so it wasn't sliding around as it's being worn in the film.
03:20This is the close-up hero Neuralizer from Men in Black 1, so it's the very first film.
03:27This is the larger close-up version, so you'll see the Neuralizer in the films.
03:33They're actually a bit smaller than this, but this one is much larger because it's the close-up
03:37version, so to get in, the camera just gets in and gets all those details.
03:45And also a lot of material that was made for films was actually made for rental interproductions
03:59and goes back or used to go back to rental houses.
04:02So for example something like Jane Fonda's costume from Barbarella, I got a word that perhaps
04:08there was some costumes still in existence in Rome with one of the costume houses that
04:13worked on the film, and I went out to Rome earlier this year just to try and find what
04:17was there, and lo and behold it was still hanging on a costume rental rather.
04:20I mean it's just astonishing.
04:27How do you feel about this film?
04:29This film is called a film byaling down the floor.
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