Golden Ticket from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Museum Object and Cultural History
Golden Ticket from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: date made: 2005. Object Name: ticket. Object Name: movie prop.
The object in the museum catalogue
Wonka golden ticket prop from the 2005 Tim Burton film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. This modern adaptation stars Johnny Depp, Freddie Highmore, David Kelly, and Helena Bonham Carter. Following the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory starring Gene Wilder, this is the second cinematic reworking of Roald Dahl’s book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Ticket is labeled with the date (February 1), time (10 a.m. sharp), and place (front gates) with a message from Willy Wonka on the reverse side that reads, “Greetings to you, the lucky finder of this golden ticket.”
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 2005
- Object Name: ticket
- Object Name: movie prop
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 0 in x 7 in x 3 1/2 in; 0 cm x 17.78 cm x 8.89 cm
- Subject: Movie
- Subject: Entertainment, Film
- ID Number: 2013.0001.22
- accession number: 2013.0001
- catalog number: 2013.0001.22
- collector/donor number: 139486
- Credit Line: Gift from Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc.
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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Catalogue descriptions and facts adapted from National Museum of American History through the Smithsonian's official Open Access dataset. This record explicitly marks its metadata CC0 1.0; formatting and selection have been changed.
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