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'Jaws' Last Surviving Shark Model Installed in Oscars Academy Museum (Video)

Information technology took a week to install the 25-foot long, 1208-pound model, affectionately known as Bruce

The new Academy Museum of Movement Pictures has completed the installation of an exhibit viewers can actually sink their teeth into: the simply surviving full-scale shark model from Steven Spielberg'southward 1975 summertime blockbuster "Jaws."

The 25-foot long, 1208-pound model is suspended thirty feet above the third flooring of the edifice and represents the largest object in the museum'southward drove to date.

The University Museum said in a argument that the week-long installation of the 25-human foot shark was completed on Nov. twenty. The model is the fourth, final and merely surviving version of the shark derived from the original "Jaws" mold, the statement read.

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The original mechanical shark was rumored to be named Bruce by manager Spielberg, appropriately, after his lawyer. The proper name has stuck for 45 years.

"It's been a long journeying for Bruce since he was caused in 2022, and we couldn't be happier to welcome him to his new home," said Academy Museum Director and President Nib Kramer. "We look frontwards to our opening when museum visitors can appoint with our exhibitions, experience our beautiful Renzo Piano-designed building, and come up face up to confront with one of the most iconic characters in picture history."

Some details of big fish story: The first mechanical shark was designed past fine art managing director Joe Alves with a 25-human foot-long torso, a 400-pound head and jaws almost 5 feet wide. There were three production models used on screen, all cast in latex and safe, all of which rotted and were destroyed.

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The Academy Museum's shark was cast in fiberglass for display at Universal Studios Hollywood at the time the movie was released. It remained at Universal until 1990. From in that location it went to Nathan Adlen's family unit junkyard business in Sun Valley CA. In 2022, the museum acquired the shar through a contribution from Adlen, and the fish underwent a seven-month restoration by special effects and makeup artist Greg Nicotero, founder of KNB-FX.

They didn't need a bigger museum to accommodate Bruce's arrival, but the fiberglass creature did not fit in the museum's elevators. A team had to remove ii panels from the Saban Edifice's curtain wall of glass to crane Bruce into the space.

Check out more than from Bruce's installation in the video above and the photos beneath: