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Printed and hand-illustrated Robert U. Taylor and Ralph McQuarrie vehicle designs and storyboards for Back to the Future: The Ride at Universal Orlando theme park. Based on the Back to the Future film series, the ride served as a mini-sequel to Back to the Future Part III. Legendary science-fiction concept artist Ralph McQuarrie, who most famously created concept art for the original Star Wars trilogy, worked with production designer and art director Robert U. Taylor (also known as Bob Taylor) on storyboards and concept art for the ride. The ride was at multiple Universal theme park locations and not just Orlando, although it first opened there. This was Universal's response to "Star Tours" at Disney.

This lot comes from the collection of special photographic effects artist Douglas Trumbull. It consists of three pages of hand-illustrated vehicle designs, including for the iconic DeLorean, rendered in graphite and ink on white and tracing paper by McQuarrie; four pages of hand-illustrated vehicle designs rendered in color ink by Taylor, three of which are signed by him; 14 pages of printed storyboards with inserted sections adhered with tape and gathered with a paperclip; one hand-illustrated storyboard; and one printed copy of hand-written storyboard descriptions. This lot exhibits minor wrinkling, discoloration, as well as staining from the paperclip. Dimensions: (largest) 8.5" x 14" (21.75 cm x 35.75 cm)

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About Douglas Trumbull



Visual effects pioneer Douglas Trumbull was born in Los Angeles in 1942. After abandoning architecture for technical drawing and cartooning, his talent for photorealism soon earned him work at Graphic Films, an esteemed Hollywood studio for which he designed groundbreaking cosmic effects for the 1964 New York World's Fair. After seeing Trumbull's work, director Stanley Kubrick hired him to create animations and VFX shots - including the iconic Star Gate sequence - for what would become his seminal masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey. From that film's success, Trumbull became one of the industry's most trusted photographic effects experts, designing and producing legendary screen moments in such sci-fi landmarks as Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, and Blade Runner, all three of which earned him Academy Award® nominations. In addition to directing the cult classics Silent Running and Brainstorm, Trumbull later received a Scientific and Engineering Award for his high-speed photography process Showscan in 1993, one of two specialty awards given to him by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences before his death in 2022. 60 years since he first made his mark on global cinema, Propstore today celebrates Douglas Trumbull by presenting a selection of rare memorabilia from his personal collection to the public.