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This article is a few months old, but I just came across it. Here is a link to the full article with photos – Link to NewYorkTimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n

February 18, 2007<\/em><\/p>\n

A Creepy Stash of Movie Magic, Lovingly Amassed<\/em><\/strong>
\nBy DAVE KEHR<\/em><\/p>\n

HOLLYWOOD is notorious for abandoning its past, but luckily there are people like Bob Burns around to pick it up, put it in a cardboard box and take it home. Mr. Burns, who lives on a tranquil, tree-lined street here, has a fair share of Hollywood\u2019s institutional memory stashed in the crowded back room of the tidy white bungalow he shares with Kathy, his understanding wife of 50 years.<\/em><\/p>\n

Bob\u2019s Basement, as the collection has come to be known to horror and science-fiction fans (though it has never actually been stored in an underground room) may well be the premier film museum in the Los Angeles area, though it is not open to the public and has no regular hours. People phone and just drop in, drawn from around the world by the glorious clutter of Mr. Burns\u2019s heaped-up holdings.<\/em><\/p>\n

In Bob\u2019s Basement, for example, you can meet the biggest movie star in the world: the original King Kong, or at least the only surviving 18-inch armature that the sculptor Marcel Delgado created for the special effects wizard Willis O\u2019Brien, whose painstaking, frame-by-frame animation brought Kong to life in the 1933 film. Kong is a bit slimmer these days, having lost the foam rubber padding and rabbit-fur coat he wore when he climbed the Empire State Building. Today he stands as a marvelously intricate metal skeleton, fashioned out of nuts, bolts and forged steel. His soulful eyes are empty sockets now, but somehow Kong\u2019s personality still clings to this totemic object.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you have in your hand a prop from a movie that\u2019s in your psyche, there\u2019s a strange emotional connection that is made,\u201d said the director Joe Dante, some of whose most famous creations now live in Bob\u2019s Basement, including a few versions of the cuddly Gizmo character from \u201cGremlins\u201d (1984). \u201cSomebody who\u2019s into books might have the same feeling in the presence of a manuscript by Charles Dickens.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

A supremely affable man with a mischievous smile and a Captain Kangaroo mustache, Mr. Burns, 71, is now retired from a series of jobs, from film editor to gorilla impersonator. He does not guide his visitors through the collection as much as turn them loose among the mounds of props and costumes and models and matte paintings that he has amassed since he was a boy and became fascinated by the mechanics of movie magic. \u201cHave a look around,\u201d he says.<\/em><\/p>\n

Here are the embroidered tunics worn by some of the most famous superheroes of the Republic serials of the 1940s, including Captain America, the Spy Smasher and, suspended in a swooping pose from the ceiling, a dummy wearing the leather flying suit worn by the legendary stuntman Dave Sharpe in \u201cKing of the Rocket Men\u201d (1949). Here are the giant black clodhoppers worn by Glenn Strange when he played Frankenstein\u2019s monster in \u201cAbbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

There, on the floor, is a melting pink mass with Jeff Goldblum\u2019s face, a transitional effect from David Cronenberg\u2019s 1986 film \u201cThe Fly.\u201d A lineup of space helmets includes everything from the ridiculous headgear worn by George Barrows in the endearingly awful 1953 \u201cRobot Monster\u201d (which resembles a rabbit-ear TV antenna glued to a fishbowl) to the convincingly high-tech plastic helmet worn by Sigourney Weaver in \u201cAlien.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

And almost everything is hands on, ready to be poked and prodded to reveal its secrets. For young special effects buffs hanging out at Bob\u2019s has been a way of learning a craft that was not taught in schools. Dennis Muren, now the senior visual effects supervisor for Industrial Light & Magic, got his start helping build and run the neighborhood Halloween shows Mr. Burns began in 1969.<\/em><\/p>\n

Rick Baker, who has won six Oscars as a makeup artist, was a shy 13-year-old from Covina, obsessed with makeup and a faithful reader of Mr. Burns\u2019s magazine Fantastic Monsters of the Films, when he asked his father to call Mr. Burns to see if he might come pay a visit.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cBob and Kathy were incredibly gracious,\u201d Mr. Baker recalled recently. \u201cHe showed me how to do a gash out of mortician\u2019s wax and how to color it with pancake makeup. And I showed him some masks I had made that he was very impressed by. It was an unforgettable experience.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

When Mr. Baker won the first Academy Award given for makeup, for John Landis\u2019s \u201cAmerican Werewolf in London\u201d in 1982, he offered some of the used props to Mr. Burns; the huge wolf puppet he created, along with an artificial arm that grows werewolf fingernails when a rod is pressed, retain pride of place in Mr. Burns\u2019s collection along with three of the alien masks Mr. Baker created for the canteen sequence in \u201cStar Wars\u201d and other bits of Mr. Baker\u2019s work, including the Bela Lugosi mask Martin Landau wore in Tim Burton\u2019s \u201cEd Wood.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Mr. Burns was a boy from Muskogee, Okla., when his father moved the family to Burbank, where he worked at a Lockheed defense plant. As it turned out, Burbank was also home to many technicians and office workers who labored at the nearby movie studios: Warner Brothers, Universal and the vanished Republic.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI lived next door to a gal who was Roy Barcroft\u2019s secretary,\u201d Mr. Burns recalled, referring to the character actor who played countless roles, mostly villainous, in westerns and serials in the \u201930s, \u201940s and \u201950s. The secretary arranged an introduction, and Mr. Barcroft invited the 10-year-old Bob Burns to visit Republic, where Mr. Barcroft was playing the title role in \u201cThe Purple Monster Strikes.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThat day changed my life,\u201d said Mr. Burns, who now counts Mr. Barcroft\u2019s Purple Monster costume among his treasures. Later a friend\u2019s father turned out to be Ellis Berman, a special effects technician at Universal. He had kept the silver wolf\u2019s head cane ornament that Claude Rains used to kill his lycanthropic son, Lon Chaney Jr., in \u201cThe Wolf Man\u201d in 1941. Seeing how fascinated the boy was by the prop \u2014 which was made of rubber and painted to look like silver \u2014 Mr. Berman offered it to him. The piece is still in Mr. Burns\u2019 collection, and is one he handles with a special affection.<\/em><\/p>\n

That \u201csilver\u201d ornament is exactly the sort of material manifestation of the special effects artist\u2019s work that is rapidly disappearing, as the mechanical effects of yesterday are gradually replaced by digital effects. Dennis Muren\u2019s computer-based work for George Lucas helped to transform the field, and Mr. Baker, who once kept a machine shop busy turning out costumes and props, now does much of his work in the virtual world.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe best approach is still a combination of the two methods,\u201d Mr. Baker said. \u201cBut the big machine shop is kind of useless now.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Mr. Dante agreed that the digital revolution has largely transformed the field, though he added that \u201cthere are still uses for that kind of mechanical stuff, usually in connection with doing close-ups of actors.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThey keep asking me if I\u2019m going to make another \u2018Gremlins\u2019 \u2019\u2019 he said. \u201cBut it won\u2019t be anything like the movies we made, because that technology is obsolete, and those movies were defined by the limitations of the technology. Now the sky\u2019s the limit. Anything you can think of, you can do if you\u2019ve got the money.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Today\u2019s special effects will be stored on discs and tapes, not here. But maybe that\u2019s just as well. Bob\u2019s Basement is filling up.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Jason De Bord<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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