A pneumatic tube canister tube from Russell Mulcahy's The Shadow. As a means of keeping communication, Lamont Cranston (Alec Baldwin) used a city-wide pneumatic system to receive messages for his vigilante alter ego The Shadow. A member of the police force wrote a message to The Shadow after his unit investigated the museum where Shiwan Khan (John Lone) escaped from Genghis Khan's sarcophagus, and sent it through a mail slot in a nearby building that was connected to the pneumatic system. This messenger tube is comprised of a clear acrylic tube with gold-colored closures and rings. It exhibits a missing end cap. Dimensions: 10" x 3" x 2.5" (25.5 cm x 7.75 cm x 6.5 cm)

Mark Stetson's run in Hollywood began with miniature work on Star Trek: The Most Picture in 1979, leading to positions as chief model maker for EEG, model shop supervisor for Boss Film Corporation, and ultimately founder of his own pioneering effects company, Stetson Visual Services, Inc. In the decades since, Stetson's work with miniatures and models on such seminal films as Blade Runner, Ghostbusters, Die Hard, and the Lord of the Rings franchise have earned him an Academy Award, two BAFTAs, and recognition as one of the world's most successful and imitated living visual effects artists.

Estimate: $400 - 800

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