Drama, Action, Romance : The Hollywood Auction 53: Gort Helmet from "The Day the Earth Stood Still"
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- čas přidán 5. 12. 2012
- Profiles in History CEO & Hollywood Treasure host, Joe Maddalena discusses a screen used Gort robot helmet form the 1951 film, "THe Day the Earth Stood Still". The item, lot #577, is estimated to sell at $100,000-$150,000. This auction features over 900 lots of various original Hollywood props, costumes, set pieces, and ephemera, and is taking palce December 16th and 17th in Calabasas California.
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The actor who played Gort was Lock Martin. He had several other movie roles, all as big guys in fantasy type films. He was the doorman at Grauman's Chinese Theater. He love together children around him and read stories. As with many who suffer from excessive height disorder, he was neither strong nor long-lived. In the scene where Gort carried Patricia Neal, overhead wires attach to the armor where used to help hold up Mr. Martin's arms. Wearing the costume was an ordeal; Mr. Martin sweated profusely inside the costume, especially during Klaatu's last speech. And, sadly, Mr. Martin passed away when he was only 42 years old. May the worthy gentleman rest in peace.
As I recall, the suit was all rubber, so definitely anyone would poach inside that thing in short order. I think they applied aluminum paint. I suppose rubber was chosen to go with the concept of the alien technology having no visible seams. What else in 1950 could look seamless, not crease and still be rigid enough to appear to be of metal? When I was a kid I always wondered what that robot was made of.
he also worked for a dairy
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Quite right. One can notice the sort of dimples, or folds, forming at the elbows and behind the knees, when Gort is walking or carrying someone.
Thank you for this. It's so respectless how often people refer to him as "this guy".
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Yeah. Not all the actors were glitterati rolling in dough. Very few, actually. Most were working stiffs like the rest of us.
Thanks for the video! You truly have a piece of history. Just about our favorite movie as we saw it at the theater when we were kids.
Very cool, indeed. What an icon Gort is in the annals of sci-fi lore!
I love Gort! I subscribed to your channel just because of this video.
Producer Julian Blaustein in the six-part “making of” documentary claims that actor Lock Martin’s head only came up to the top of the shoulders of the costume, but that was an exaggeration (you can see the skull cap inside this helmet). Look at any scene where Gort is in movement... if Blaustein was correct, the arms and armpits would be unnaturally low. Martin was 7’7” tall. His boots were lifted about 4” and the helmet likely added another 3”, making the overall height 8’2”... roughly ceiling height in a typical house.
Yes I agree, his head wasn’t ‘in the shoulders’, it’s more just that his head didn’t fit right inside the helmet as it’s clearly much bigger than a human head. He had a clear or raised visor for some scenes from the back (you occasionally catch it as he turns) in order to see, and felt his way around blind/followed vocal instructions when filmed from the front (watch his hands when he enters the ship). I think it’s possible he could see down a little, but he definitely isn’t looking from the shoulders.
Also, there are clearly multiple helmets, because one was a mechanical puppet insert with a motorised visor, one was part of the full scale model used as his motionless stand-in, and the one Lock wore, and you can see little differences in all of them such as the holes in the chin (check out his initial walk down the ramp, vs when the helmet raises).
I do think this is likely to be the actors helmet, though, which is pretty darned awesome.
@@Lumibear. Good info. Thanks.
Just watched this original movie wondered what happened to this prop :) Thanks for posting !
Give it back to the 'Real Gort' so he can destroy that pathetic defaming remake!
OMG yes, the remake sucked!!!
The remake sucked! Leave well enough alone! Is Hollywood THAT DESPERATE???
AWESOME ! Thx for the upload !
On a documentary of the day the earth stood still of 6 parts. The actor inside the suit stood on 6" shoes but that was still not tall enough. His head inside the suit came up to the shoulders of the robot and he would look thru a prism to see out the head piece.
Incredible 1950's design - clean and eerily simple - similar to the design of the amazing Palomar Observatory - which I have seen and touched/hugged as a vision quest from my childhood. Just something about both of them that you can't even articulate!
So amazing!
I'm a Gort fan,thanks for posting.I've done several 3D models of Gort and his helmet,a grear design.
+Bobby Friend I'm also a fan of Gort Bobby. I have been searching a short lived tv series that Gort was in. He was modified slightly with a few add ons. I think it may have been an attempt to extend the expensive costume. Much like Robby and Tobor. Tobor being in a unsold Tv pilot after his debut movie Tobor The Great.
I named my new to me V Star bike after Gort on it's license plate. This would make a cool helmet! Even found bust stickers of Gort for my helmet & gas tank. Now I need a light grey or silver biker jacket...
The Brilliance of Hollywood can not be rivaled.Magnificent. USA.
this is a way cool Hollywood artifact. thank goodness there are people around to help rescue such items.
I have read that in some scenes there was a transparent visor to help Mr. Martin see where he was going. the transparent visor can be seen in one scene when Gort brings Patricia Neal into the saucer. after he turns away from the virwscreen, the transparent visor can be seen inside profile.
Helmet looks fantastic.
Joe says that "most important movie prop" line with everything he sells
Unobtainium Holy Grail.
Top of the mountain sci-fi prop collectible.
Freaking awesome. and yes I know I'm late to this party :)
Meanwhile the original space station model from 2001 sat in a pasture collecting rust. There wasn't much detail left of that - what are they going to do, rebuild 80% of it and try to sell it off as 'original' for 500 grand?
I’ve been to that place!
But they took out the ray projector! What fun is that?
100-150$ since it is NOT all original... I mean how do you lose the visor!? Check that storage room I bet it's there!
on the 6 part series of the movie on You Tube, the head piece had a prism in it as the actors head only came up to the shoulders and he would look thru the prims to see out thru the helmet
According to the 'Making of' the helmet was on top of his head to give extra height. So why would you have a skull cap? Can it me authentic?
2017: "The Navy spotted something over the North Atlantic going super sonic. AAAAAAAAAANND it's gone, they blew it up..."
The hell with that helmet I want that Theremin that was use ..
Check Peter Pringle's YT channel. The Theremin used in TDTESS was in his collection... perhaps still is. It originally belonged to Samuel Hoffman, who also played the instrument for the movie's soundtrack.
Does anybody know the actual proportions of the helmet?
There were not two, but three Gort robot suits. The static suit, a suit with the zip up the back for frontal shots, and a suit with a zip up the front for rear shots.
You are correct sir...
cool!
It sold for something like $150K. So ya, I would pretty much kill to get this!
Yes but you’re missing the plexiglass that was in front of the eye
Robby the robot is probably up there with most desirable props
We need gort to go to dc now!
Yes. There are a few people deserving of his ray!
I want my head back.
If there is a skull cap deep within the helmet inside which the actor fit his head, then the story that the actor's head only reached shoulder height in the costume must be nonsense.
At least give a mention to the actor that wore the helmet, Joseph Lockard "Lock" Martin Jr. sheesh.
Imagine a motor bike crash helmet in this style?
This helmet may be the original, but it is not consistent with Julian Blaustein’s description of it in another you tube video.
I believe this belonged to Bob Burns.
Negan?
Klatou Barada Nictou! The original 1951. No remake. No sequel. It was what it was and it was wonderful.
Sorry... Klaatu Barada Nikto
@@LJW55 Thanks. It's been a long time and I guess I need to take a class in Klaatu's language.
I thought Chuck Woolery owned this
The martian warships from War of the Worlds were scrapped after the movie and are gone forever, a very dumb mistake.
Not trying to sound like a jackass but isnt replacing missing parts on a “screen used” prop with replica parts decrease it’s value significantly? 🤔
Not if the original parts come with the piece. As for the visor, if it’s lost, most collectors would rather have a replacement than nothing. Even missing the visor, it’s extremely valuable.
@@kuklafranandollie ah I see! And yeah I did assume it still is valuable despite the missing pieces. I was just asking as to wouldnt it decrease it’s value compared to a piece that has all the other components
*KLAATU BARADA NIKTO*
ICONIC but NOT ORIGINAL! They "ADDED"? pieces to it and removed pieces? WTF? There was only about 4 or 5 pieces to the helmet to begin with! JEEEEEEEEZUS! Yea..."These are Dorothy's slippers from the Wizard of Oz with new Laces and Soles and Ruby Rhinestones on them...OTHER THAN THAT...Just like new! JEEEEEEEEEEEZUS!
You just know that thing is a big rusty tin can with a couple tuna fish cans glued on for ears
Not really original.............semi
Fake copy
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