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Shark Model in 'Jaws' to be Housed at the Academy Museum!
By Flora / 08 Jan 2016 (Friday)
The only surviving shark model from Steven Spielberg’s 1975 classic blockbuster, ‘Jaws’ is moving to the Academy Museum in Los Angeles.
The monumental 25-foot model is the sole surviving full-scale model from the film set, donated by Nathan Adlen. The iconic Fiberglas model is the fourth and final version made from the original mold, created for display at the Universal Studios Hollywood at the time of the film’s release.
Said to be the largest object to be housed at the museum amongst other cinema memorabilia, the shark model will be featured alongside its other props used in the film - including an underwater apparatus and fin used in Jaws and Jaws II.
Designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Renzo Piano, the Academy Museum will feature six floors of exhibition spaces, a movie theater, education areas, special event spaces, conservation areas, and a café and store.
In developing its highly immersive exhibitions, the Academy Museum will draw on materials that include approximately 62,000 pieces of production art—such as a Planet of the Apes mask, a model horse head made for The Godfather and the lion’s mane and ruby slippers from The Wizard of Oz—as well as some 12 million photographs, 55,000 posters, 80,000 screenplays, prints of 80,000 films and tens of thousands of books, periodicals, items of correspondence, scrapbooks and clippings files.