The Press and Journal (Inverness, Highlands, and Islands)
How deep are your pockets?
The original multicoloured dancefloor used by John Travolta to strut his stuff in 1977’s Saturday Night Fever has been put up for auction.
It is being sold by Julien’s Auctions and Turner Classic Movies (TCM) along with an Ark of the Covenant prototype used in the making of the 1981 Indiana Jones film Raiders Of The Lost Ark, as well as around 1,300 more items.
With an estimate of $50,000 to $70,000 (£40,000 to £55,000), the golden ark is being put up for sale by Industrial Light and Magic visual effects artist Peter Stoltz, who used the prop in pyrotechnic testing, and let his son take it to the US version of the Antiques Roadshow.
Antiques Roadshow
expert James Supp previously estimated that the item was worth $80,000 to $120,000 (£63,000 to £94,300).
The prop used in the Steven Spielberg film – representing a biblical artefact unearthed by Indiana Jones, played by Harrison Ford – is held by Lucasfilm Archives.
The Saturday Night Fever dancefloor, which has an estimate of $200,000 to $300,000 (£157,000 to £236,000), saw Travolta don a white suit as Tony Manero when he danced along to the Bee Gees soundtrack in the gritty 1977 disco movie.
Both the original acrylic panels and the modern
production-made panels feature wear from use, and the components and dancefloor are housed within three rolling production carts, two crates, and one road case.
Also being sold are costumes and memorabilia from Coen Brothers crime comedy The Big Lebowski, which will see some of the
proceeds donated to the charity Share Our Strength’s No Kid Hungry initiative.
The 1998 movie features Jeff Bridges’ vintage bowling shirt and plaid shorts which he wears in various scenes as the funloving main character The Dude, as well as John Turturro’s six-piece purple
ensemble which he wore as Jesus Quintana.
The two items both have a guide price of $100,000 to $200,000 (£80,000 to £157,000).
The Hollywood Legends: Danger, Disaster and Disco online and live auction begins in Los Angeles, California, on June 12 and ends on June 15.