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Marty McFly's (Michael J. Fox) Western shirt from Robert Zemeckis' Back to The Future Part III. McFly wore his colourful Western shirt when he initially travelled back in time to 1885 to save his friend Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd) from being murdered by Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen (Thomas F. Wilson).

This salmon-colour cotton collared shirt with back yokes, pearlescent buttons, and tasseled cuffs originates from the collection of renowned effects maestro and the film's visual effects art director, John Bell. Costume designer Joanna Johnston gifted the shirt to Bell after filming completed in thanks for his help creating costume illustrations. This shirt was made at the same time and with the same materials as the shirts seen in the final cut, though it was ultimately unseen onscreen.

Embroidered atomic symbols adorn the chest and cuffs, while each sleeve includes cuff buttons matching those down the front. The shirt exhibits moth holes on its back and hem from storage.

Estimate: £3,000 - 6,000 Ω


Effects maestro John Bell's first major credit was as a storyboard artist for Industrial Light and Magic on Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home in 1986. Within two years, Bell had become ILM's effects art director, a role for which he designed and illustrated props, sets, and sequences for an outsized number of classic films. For Robert Zemeckis' Back to the Future Part II, he designed the 2015 hoverboards flown by Marty McFly and Biff Tannen, earning him his first Academy Award nomination for Best Effects in 1990. He would follow that achievement with a string of acclaimed projects, including as art director for Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park franchise, production illustrator for A.I. Artificial Intelligence, storyboard artist for Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's Best Picture nominee The Revenant, and visual development consultant for George Lucas' Strange Magic, among several dozen other credits. In honor of John Bell's continued work on behalf of global cinema, Propstore is proud to offer select memorabilia from this legendary craftsman's personal collection to the public for the first time.


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