This colossal tree, which reaches from floor to ceiling, is illuminated under soft lights that seem to flow down from green strings that represent leaves booming from the thick trunk, which is made of painted wooden strips. It can be a breathtaking moment when you turn one corner of the Hayao Miyazaki exhibition on the fourth floor and enter into the Magical Forest room where, planted majestically in the middle, is the Mother Tree installation. Among the collection is Sidney Poitier’s 1963 award for Best Actor in “Lilies of the Field,” and Clark Gable’s Best Actor award for 1934’s “It Happened One Night.” The Oscars are inside glass cases built into the wall. And 20 Academy Award trophies are displayed in a dramatic second floor circular room that sports a gold wall surrounding a red circular velvet couch. Of course you can’t have a museum dedicated to films without an Oscar or two in the house. This is Bruce, a 25-foot-long fiberglass model that is the fourth and final Great White shark cast from the original mold used for “Jaws.” And according to the museum, this is the only surviving model out of those four.
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But don’t worry, this predator is a legit movie icon and not a prop from some campy SyFy film. Quick, look up! There’s a shark hanging from the ceiling over the third level of the museum.
The director didn’t like the first take, but the second scene was just right so there was no need to cremate the last little red sled. According to the museum, this sled is quite the little survivor, too, because three were created for the scene in which Rosebud gets thrown into the furnace. Rosebud, the cheap little red sled on which Kane was playing on the day he was taken from his home in Orson Welles’ 1941 masterpiece “Citizen Kane,” has slid into a prominent spot at the museum. It’s probably the most significant sled in movie history. According to the museum this particular pair of slippers is believed to be the ones seen in all the closeup shots, including the iconic scene when Dorothy clicks her heels and says “There’s no place like home.” While it’s unknown exactly how many ruby slippers were created for “The Wizard of Oz,” according to the exhibit label, at least four screen-worn pairs have survived, including the pair on display on the second floor of the “Stories of Cinema” exhibition. She clicked them three times and now Dorothy’s ruby red slippers are finally home where they belong, at the Academy Museum.
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