{"id":32251,"date":"2013-02-06T23:17:07","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T06:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.originalprop.com\/blog\/?p=32251"},"modified":"2013-02-07T10:19:12","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T17:19:12","slug":"opportunity-to-acquire-one-of-the-great-motion-picture-artifacts-of-our-time-help-archive-television-history-wizard-of-ozs-cowardly-lion-the-tv-history-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.originalprop.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/06\/opportunity-to-acquire-one-of-the-great-motion-picture-artifacts-of-our-time-help-archive-television-history-wizard-of-ozs-cowardly-lion-the-tv-history-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Opportunity to Acquire One of the Great Motion Picture Artifacts of Our Time &#038; Help Archive Television History (Wizard of Oz&#8217;s Cowardly Lion &#038; The TV History Museum)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.originalprop.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/06\/opportunity-to-acquire-one-of-the-great-motion-picture-artifacts-of-our-time-help-archive-television-history-wizard-of-ozs-cowardly-lion-the-tv-history-museum\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32257\" alt=\"Wizard-of-Oz-Cowardly-Lion-Original-Costume-Prop-Museum-of-Television-AMPAS-Hollywood-History-Museum-x380\" src=\"http:\/\/www.originalprop.com\/blog\/dylsoagh\/2013\/02\/Wizard-of-Oz-Cowardly-Lion-Original-Costume-Prop-Museum-of-Television-AMPAS-Hollywood-History-Museum-x380.jpg\" width=\"380\" height=\"146\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.originalprop.com\/blog\/dylsoagh\/2013\/02\/Wizard-of-Oz-Cowardly-Lion-Original-Costume-Prop-Museum-of-Television-AMPAS-Hollywood-History-Museum-x380.jpg 380w, https:\/\/www.originalprop.com\/blog\/dylsoagh\/2013\/02\/Wizard-of-Oz-Cowardly-Lion-Original-Costume-Prop-Museum-of-Television-AMPAS-Hollywood-History-Museum-x380-300x115.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Hollywood Reporter is breaking news this week (currently the print edition only), about the prospects of an individual or other entity acquiring one of the two surviving Cowardly Lion costumes from The Wizard of Oz, proceeds of which would go toward the funding of James Comisar&#8217;s &#8220;Museum of Television&#8221; project in Phoenix, Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>As explained in prior articles (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.originalprop.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/23\/james-comisars-museum-of-television-the-three-year-35-million-50000-sq-ft-project-finds-a-home-in-phoenix-az\/\" target=\"_blank\">#1<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.originalprop.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/20\/update-on-james-comisars-museum-of-television-project-in-phoenix-az-on-good-morning-arizona-show\/\" target=\"_blank\">#2<\/a>), James Comisar is working to transition his Comisar Collection (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.museumoftv.org\" target=\"_blank\">www.museumoftv.org<\/a>) into a public museum in downtown Phoenix, a $35 million, 50,000 sq ft project scheduled for completion in 2016.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.originalprop.com\/blog\/dylsoagh\/2013\/02\/Wizard-of-Oz-Cowardly-Lion-Original-Costume-Prop-Museum-of-Television-AMPAS-Hollywood-History-Museum.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32259\" alt=\"Wizard-of-Oz-Cowardly-Lion-Original-Costume-Prop-Museum-of-Television-AMPAS-Hollywood-History-Museum-x400\" src=\"http:\/\/www.originalprop.com\/blog\/dylsoagh\/2013\/02\/Wizard-of-Oz-Cowardly-Lion-Original-Costume-Prop-Museum-of-Television-AMPAS-Hollywood-History-Museum-x400.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.originalprop.com\/blog\/dylsoagh\/2013\/02\/Wizard-of-Oz-Cowardly-Lion-Original-Costume-Prop-Museum-of-Television-AMPAS-Hollywood-History-Museum-x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.originalprop.com\/blog\/dylsoagh\/2013\/02\/Wizard-of-Oz-Cowardly-Lion-Original-Costume-Prop-Museum-of-Television-AMPAS-Hollywood-History-Museum-x400-238x300.jpg 238w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Per the Hollwood Reporter article by Andy Lewis:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Memorabilia collector James Comisar is searching for an industry benefactor to help save one of Bert Lahr\u2019s original costumes from 1939\u2019s The Wizard of Oz. Comisar is selling the furry outfit \u2014 acquired in 1991 from a salvage dealer who found it covered in dirt and mouse droppings in an abandoned MGM building \u2014 to fund a TV history museum in Phoenix.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Experts consider it the more historically important of the two surviving Lion costumes because Lahr wore it in the film\u2019s most memorable scenes. Considering the eye-popping prices paid recently for significant memorabilia \u2014 TV\u2019s original Batmobile sold for $4.6 million in January, and a dress Audrey Hepburn wore in My Fair Lady went for $4.55 million in June 2011 \u2014 the Lion likely is worth several million dollars. Plus, while several pairs of ruby slippers and Dorothy\u2019s blue dress still exist, none of the Tin Man costumes has survived, and there\u2019s only one ragged Scarecrow costume (it\u2019s in the Smithsonian). Comisar\u2019s concern isn\u2019t getting the highest price: He wants the Cowardly Lion to end up alongside a pair of ruby slippers in the planned Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, and he\u2019s even offering to sell it for a discount. But the Academy, which has raised about $100 million of a projected $250 million budget for the museum, isn\u2019t ready to shell out for acquisitions. So he\u2019s hoping an angel will step up, as when Leonardo DiCaprio, Steven Spielberg and Terry Semel helped buy the slippers and donated them to the Academy. A few foreign buyers have made offers, but Comisar is holding out hope the Lion will be reunited with the slippers for \u201cthe magical Hollywood ending it deserves.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It will be interesting to see if principals in the entertainment industry are willing to step forward to acquire this important motion picture artifact for public display at the upcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.originalprop.com\/blog\/category\/news-events\/exhibitions\/the-academy-of-motion-picture-arts-and-sciences-hollywood-history-musueum\/\" target=\"_blank\">Academy Motion Picture Museum under development by The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences<\/a>, with the side benefit of also helping to fund the Museum of Television under independent yet concurrent development.\u00a0 Another benefit that such a private purchase &#8211; outside of control by auction houses &#8211; would eliminate the need to pay 40% +\/- in commissions.<\/p>\n<p>Jason DeBord<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hollywood Reporter is breaking news this week (currently the print edition only), about the prospects of an individual or other entity acquiring one of the two surviving Cowardly Lion costumes from The Wizard of Oz, proceeds of which would go toward the funding of James Comisar&#8217;s &#8220;Museum of Television&#8221; 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