Raiders of the Lost Ark screenplay: Museum Object and Cultural History
Raiders of the Lost Ark screenplay: date made: 1980. user: Landis, Deborah Nadoolman. Object Name: screenplay.
The object in the museum catalogue
Screenplay for the 1981 adventure film Raiders of the Lost Ark. The 160-page script is on white and blue paper. Steven Spielberg directed this iconic film about an archaeologist and adventurer hired by the United States government to find the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis.
Filmmaker George Lucas conceived of Indiana Jones as a globe-trekking archeologist to pay homage to classic Hollywood adventure films. Jones is a reluctant hero who finds himself fighting evil-doers of all sorts while seeking to preserve cultural heritage. The Indiana Jones series, directed by Steven Spielberg, is among the most successful movie franchises in American history.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1980
- user: Landis, Deborah Nadoolman
- Object Name: screenplay
- Physical Description: metal (binder material)
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Physical Description: ink (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 11 in x 8 1/2 in; 27.94 cm x 21.59 cm
- Associated Place: United States: California, Los Angeles
- Subject: Movie
- ID Number: 1989.0401.02
- accession number: 1989.0401
- catalog number: 1989.0401.02
- Credit Line: Deborah Nadoolman Landis
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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