MAN 1: We grew up in a stop motion era
and to us it was magical.
I remember "Davey and Goliath," "Rudolph the Red-Nosed
Reindeer," and the big one--
"Gumby."
All of that was stop motion.
MOVIE PRODUCER: Our grandfather went on to do "Time Machine."
MAN 2: Your grandfather was part of the original "Time Machine?"
MOVIE PRODUCER: He won an Academy Award for that.
MAN 2: No way. MAN 1: Wow.
MAN 2: HG Wells's "Time Machine?"
That was one of my favorite freaking movies.
I can sit down and watch that movie all day long.
MOVIE PRODUCER: My son and my daughter
will become fourth generation.
100 years.
Oh, you guys are still doing it?
Oh yeah.
Oh yeah, we're still in it.
So what do you got going on in here?
MOVIE PRODUCER: Our father passed away
about a year and a half ago, and now we
have to move the stuff around.
We're not collectors.
We don't go out and search for props and movie
props, so everything that we have
is part of our family history.
We build it, we shoot it, and it goes on the shelf.
So all this stuff that nobody else has ever seen before.
And a lot of it we're attached to.
We're ready to sell some, but not all of it.
Yeah.
MAN 1: When you talk about a generational business
where I'm from, it's usually like a hardware
store or a restaurant or maybe even a century farm.
But this is Hollywood, so a generational family business
is props and special effects.
You got a squid out here?
MOVIE PRODUCER: Yeah.
He's a little parched.
[laughing]
MAN 1: Wow, wow, wow.
What movie was this from?
Peter Benchley's "The Beast."
"The Beast."
And this is the beast?
That's the beast.
Look at this thing.
MAN 1: In the mid 1970s, "Jaws" launched
a whole new era of movies that villainized
animals in a whole new way.
Movies like "Congo," "Cujo," "Lake Placid," "Anaconda,"
"Piranha"-- all of these took a natural fear
and made it supernatural.
Peter Benchley wrote "Jaws."
He also wrote this book in 1991 and within two years
they were making the movie.
MAN 1: After the juggernaut success
of "Jaws," Hollywood was going to do anything
that he wanted to do next.
Basic story is "Jaws," but it's a squid.
MAN 1: It's funny to say "attack of the killer
squid," but he can take the worst qualities in any animal
and blow that up into the biggest nightmare
that you ever had.
It feels like this thing is still alive.
MAN 2: It is.
All right, I'm going to check the pulse.
Yeah, it's dead.
MAN 2: It made you terrified.
It made you terrified to go in the water.
After I saw "Jaws" as a kid, I didn't want to go in the water.
But to see this thing?
This gigantic squid eating a ship?
It's crazy.
Each bundle of cables moves one tentacle.
MAN 2: Holy Toledo.
MOVIE PRODUCER: These were 40 feet long or 30 feet long,
and you had them on rigs that you can just--
MAN 2: Really?
There's claws in there.
That had to have come out.
You were able to shoot that out?
Yeah, with the tentacles going like this and the beak
doing its thing.
MAN 1: How many people did it take to run it?
MOVIE PRODUCER: We had at one point like 16 or 18 people.
[interposing voices]
So it's like this huge ventriloquist doll.
It is.
It's what it is.
MAN 2: This squid, it's unbelievable.
Each arm, how the tentacle moved in the water.
I mean, it's mind blowing.
I spent probably 1,000 hours underwater shooting.
This?
Really?
Underwater in the big tank that our father had.
It was 100 by 100, 21 feet deep.
EVERYONE: A million gallon water tank.
MAN 2: A million gallon water came here
and that's where this thing was living at?
MOVIE PRODUCER: That's where we shot "Jaws."
MAN 2: Oh, wow.
"Avatar," "Wonder Woman," "Black Panther," everything nowadays
is on a green screen.
These guys are floating in a tank.
There's 20 people operating it just to make this thing move.
Can you imagine every position they had to be in to make
it swallow that ship?
So its skin's coming off here a little bit.
MOVIE PRODUCER: Yeah.
MAN 2: I can't believe how well it's lasted out here.
It's not foam.
It's silicone.
Over the years when the materials changed,
even foam to foam, the newer foam last
longer than the older foam.
This is the most modern silicone that's out there.
It will not decay.
So what's going on with this?
I mean, is this part of the family?
You guys thinking about--
I mean, how do you gauge the value?
MOVIE PRODUCER: Unless somebody comes
to us within the next few weeks or so,
this will probably get parted the tentacles only.
Really? Why?
And then try and sell those off?
Because otherwise it's just going to sit here and--
Oh, you would sell just the tentacle.
People could buy the tentacle and put it on their wall.
All of a sudden it gets parted.
MAN 1: Well I don't want to see that happen to it.
So in order for us to fix this--
MOVIE PRODUCER: Yeah, it's silicone glue.
OK that's all we need to do is glue that on that seam.
MOVIE PRODUCER: And a little bit of a cleanup.
And it'll clean pretty well because it's silicone.
What are you thinking on this thing?
MOVIE PRODUCER: $500.
Yeah.
Really?
I mean, it just seems--
Phew.
MOVIE PRODUCER: We can get a little bit more
for the tentacles, but we'd rather not have it parted.
Yeah.
We will not part it.
MAN 1: I mean, you guys are like making us buy it.
Well, it's part of the deal.
All right, man.
Awesome.
All right.
MAN 1: Whether or not you're a fan of the movie,
this squid is a work of art.
You guys act like it's heavy or something.
[grunting and growling]
Get it all the way up.
All the way.
Tentacles and all!
MAN 1: It's just mind-blowing to think
that one family was a part of so many iconic productions.