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Tom Rothman, the chairman of Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, gave The Hollywood Reporter a tour of the Columbia Pictures archives in honor of the studio's 100th anniversary. Rothman and Senior Archivist Gil Emralino showed off items from films like 'Spider-Man: No Way Home,' 'Men in Black,' 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' and many more while recalling the studio's storied century.

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00:00Gil's the expert he can really tell you but this I recognize very well because it was worth two

00:27billion dollars at the box office to us this is the spider-man suit from the most recent of the

00:33spider-man movies and this from the one before that this is Thomas Hayden Church as the Sandman

00:39and this is from amazing spider-man we have actually never put one out to auction but

00:45someday we may spider-man is one of the most culturally iconic characters that exist in the

00:52history of movies and so it would be very valuable these archives mostly you'll see some

00:57historic stuff from some of the photographs and maybe later if you have time some costumes the

01:02actual items Sony's really started collecting them in the early 90s the photo collection does go all

01:11the way back well into the 30s all of these shelves this contains all of the history of Columbia Pictures

01:21ha here is a very little known movie it's called Rocket Gibraltar 1988 I have worked on over 500 motion

01:34pictures as a studio executive and this was my first one what's significant about it it was

01:43Macaulay Culkin's first film and Burt Lancaster's last film here's a definitional picture not just of a

01:49movie but a movie era that that's a movie that changed the entire aesthetic in Hollywood and

01:57that's basically the image that did it when the set photographer is doing their job you will capture

02:04you will have a still of that iconic moment of course you can take it off the you can always take it from

02:11the film itself but on set there will be here in case you think you can handle the truth he's here to

02:20tell you that you cannot here's Robert Redford directing a very young Brad Pitt and Craig Sheffer in a river

02:28runs through it Columbia began on what they call poverty row it was it was a lesser studio it wasn't at the

02:38level of MGM or Warner Brothers until Frank Capra and Frank Capra came and he made it happen one night

02:45which was the first Columbia picture to win the Academy Award he went on to make you know a series

02:53of Capra esque hits for Columbia and it was really Frank Capra that pulled Columbia up into the ranks and

03:03the majors all right let's push on what else we got here Gil all right so this is cool this is the real

03:11stuff I don't know whether you've held these before but they're heavier than you would expect

03:15this is obviously the model in the pre digital days and here's a young mr. Spielberg in front of what the

03:28actual rendering of it was but close encounters of third time and I can't tell you how many times

03:36I've asked mr. Spielberg wouldn't you like to make a sequel to close encounters of the third kind but he

03:44thinks it's very good as it stood and he's probably right that's a lot of cool gadgetry

03:58you know Frank Capra's original film spicers oh why are they in the tipper control room I guess

04:07that is very valuable as I said here you go without this without him and whatever he did on this machine

04:16there would be no no Columbia pictures and when I first started in the business of course everybody

04:26cut on film this way

04:33if you had to say three people three people without whom the history a hundred years of Columbia pictures

04:46couldn't be written it would obviously be Harry Cohn Frank Capra and then this lady right here Rita Hayworth

04:55oh that's really cool I've actually never seen this let me ask you this on this thing I see Elizabeth

05:09Taylor Carrie Grant and Spencer Tracy is there anything to do with them in these but in this box

05:15yes those are actual wardrobe pieces that were found in our rail department the vest is from Spencer Tracy the pants are from Harry Gordon

05:22it's pretty cool it's pretty cool

05:29medieval

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