right we're going to do a video i'm like blown away by what's in front of me adam savage and i
am in prop store of london with brandon allenger hello sir good to see you good to see you um we've
been here all day shooting a bunch of different videos and these will show up untested but right
now we're looking at something that i literally had no idea i would ever witness in person these
are pictures of indiana jones grail diary from the last crusade yeah original production pages
from the grail diary so the original grail diary is made like a book in which pages actually three
at a time are joined like this folded and that is called a signature and it's got 12 pages in it
and the grail diary famously has like i think 16 12 page signatures if i remember okay to make the
whole book but i've never seen these in person up close and with what goes on the back and i
can tell you right now that this is a page i am so obsessed with the grail diary but i know right now
that this is a page i've never seen oh that's very cool that's exciting i always gravitate towards
the story pages like this one shows the holy grail cuffs yes but they're probably the better known
pages whereas something like that is a little bit more obscure right absolutely like this page and
this page these are both visible in the lucasfilm art of lucasfilm books okay back in the 90s so is
the star wars indie book so is that what star wars to indy yes so is that um but like the already map
that doesn't show up in there and this writing is absolutely brand brand new to me well that's
cool that dude we found something new no it's how many years you've been studying the grail diaries
this uh i know the grill diary was made by a prop maker in the uk named kier lusby
really did a lot of props for indiana jones last crusade i know they did a number of different
prototype diaries and such and of course like you're saying it's made like a real book where
they did a set of master pages and they basically printed their own pages to build the books off
yeah and and i have like i've even gone so far as to correspond with a couple of collectors
enough to understand that there are different page orders in different diaries okay they're not all
exactly they're not all exactly the same and they do have repeating pages yes like it's 210 some
odd pages but they're not all different i think there's like maybe 40 different pages okay 30
different unique pages i still want to just pause it i literally want to stop philly just
like look at this what does this say you know the thing that's so great about this normally
you wouldn't necessarily get excited about a part of a prop but because this is such a major
prop everyone loves indiana jones everyone who knows those movies remembers the grail diaries
yeah and it's like it's something that when you see the film you want to know more about it and
especially as a prop guy you sort of go how are we going to study that or some people are even going
to make their own maybe like you right indeed and the the other thing about this prop is it's
almost a perfect prop in my in my mind like it is supposed to be a lifetime's worth of notes of
an obsessive goal that the character has and the diary it tells that story so beautifully the way
the drawings are written this almost feverish pace of the writing in some of the cases yeah
goes and continues that story and and how things tie into other elements of the film like the
three seven and ten from the library here yeah it's just a perfect setup you know oh
oh oh okay right this goddess love sword i have seen that part but this also might be new to me
i'm not sure that i've yeah that's interesting yeah i'm not sure i've seen the the holy grail
there yeah that's the garden of earthly delights that's definitely a less familiar page i would say
yeah the problem with these as a collector is if you get one which side you display out one side is
forever hidden no you put it in one double-ended plexi okay what for me what it helps me understand
looking at these is this is information i've never had about the correct page order because
if these were part of the hero diary then these went like this and this faces that one and right
so i can look at some of my reference material see what's opposite the horse and just surmise some
more information i may have to end up building my own grail diary again or updating it no i'd start
out there now that's incredible brandon i what an amazing thing so someone just
had these sitting around for all these years yeah i mean these are basically leftovers from
the assembly of the original book so i'm sure they ran off however many on a printing press
and had their pages and then they made however many books and i know they talk about sort of
the hero diaries i think the main hero diaries still in the lucas archive collection there were
some they called the b diaries which are maybe a little bit thinner which is the theory is
that they were being used for action sequences and such but they're all obviously made up of the same
repeating same main parts yes yeah yes uh and you've got photos here photo references yeah so
this is a set of photos of that what i believe is as far as i understand that primary hero the
lucasfilm version of the grail diary that cover certainly looks crazy authentic and even down to
the um that sort of uh vertical texture on that that actually feels very original to me definitely
and you know you can see it's got the inserts there look at all that weathering oh this is
this is um end pages right look at that so this is the inside cover and you can see
that there's like almost a cloud pattern on these end pages that's the kind of thing i didn't know
yeah that's that's really amazing and a prop like this has so much to digest
and to study and it's the type of thing that collectors prop fans love to get their hands
on because yeah there's so much to absorb there's so much to look at and drink in and understand i i
you know sometimes actually every time i come down here i want to just keep coming
down here to work like i'd like you just to hire me to restore some stuff but i also don't think
i'd get anything done they'd be like where's that i mean like he's wandered off somewhere
or adam please stop taking pictures with your phone you have to do something hey you're always
welcome we'll set up a little again adam's workshop and prop store miniature version
brandon this is amazing what an incredible piece of history wow it was a lot of fun
when these came in because you know i've told the story before but we we never know what's coming
you know we started this year we don't know what's going to turn up you don't even know
what exists one of the interesting things as a collector is like what might be out there and
does that props to exist you'll see a prop in a movie ago i've never heard of anyone having
that in their collection i've never seen it in an auction yeah does it still exist is it in a studio
vault where is it and then sometimes things like this it's like god i would have never even thought
of that as a collectible but now that i see it it actually is really neat and actually i'd love to
own an original production page of the grail diary right very cool yeah um now i'm thinking about
another way to display this where you'd sandwich it between pieces of plex and be able to turn
the pages so you'd be able to like kind of okay do that like the old school uh looking through
posters at the shopping mall exactly exactly got it got it got it got it got it got it don't got it
yeah thank you brandon i never that's just wonderful i feel like i said this in every video
i never thought i'd get a chance to see this but i never thought i'd get a chance to see this well
that's what we're here for bucket lists galore all right guys stay safe and i'll see you next time
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