You Won't Believe How Much These Famous Movie Props Sold For

A Hidden Gem

For over 40 years, the model sat in the home of an art school teacher in Hertfordshire, England, the long time secret home base for Kubrick. The Aries 1B sold for $344,000 to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences who are now displaying the model in a museum in Los Angeles.

The More You Know

The first public movie screening was held in 1895 in Paris.
Walt Disney refused to allow Alfred Hitchcock to film at Disneyland in the early 1960s because he had made “that disgusting movie Psycho.”
In 2002, Steven Spielberg finally finished college after a 33-year hiatus. He turned in Schindler’s List for his student film requirement.
Novelist and screenwriter Nick Hornby is brother-in-law to novelist and screenwriter Robert Harris.

Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.