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    Fire might have claimed 'Gone with the Wind' items

    Associated Press – Fri, Feb 10, 2012

    STOCKBRIDGE, Ga. (AP) — Museum officials are waiting to see whether memorabilia from the classic film "Gone with the Wind" was ruined when a fire heavily damaged the facility near Atlanta where it was stored.

    Rebekah Cline with the Clayton County Convention and Visitors Bureau says the Road to Tara Museum in Henry County has a storage unit on the lower level of the facility, while the fire broke out on the upper level. But she says firefighters said all the units had sustained some degree of fire, smoke or water damage.

    Cline says the unit housed collectible posters from the 1939 premier and promotional paintings. But she says the museum's most valuable treasures are at the museum. They include costumes, a signed first-edition copy of the book and an original movie script.

     

    38 comments

    • catman2130093
      catman2130093  •  3 mths ago
      Why was this stuff not displayed at The Margaret Mitchell House-aka The Dump? it's in downtown Atlanta,has been restored,and is open to the public. (If you don't know Margaret wrote GTW, and the"Dump" is what she called the house she lived in while writing it).
      • nysro
        nysro 3 mths ago
        That house has been destroyed before as well. It's no safer in either place.
    • Regina
      Regina  •  Glendale, California  •  3 mths ago
      Gone With The Wind. Entrance music, intermission, exit music. I miss that style of movie making so much. I've watched it more than 20 times and I've only noticed one jump cut and two instances where the costume getting caught on an item in the scene was expertly handled by the brilliant actors.
    • Elikineer
      Elikineer  •  3 mths ago
      Why store such priceless artifacts in such a shoddy envirnment? Hopefully, the fire was not set intentionally!
    • kmm47
      kmm47  •  Houston, Texas  •  3 mths ago
      Clark Gable's turning over in his grave.
      • Tommy Boy
        Tommy Boy 3 mths ago
        For more reasons than you know!
      • dennis
        dennis 3 mths ago
        Hope Drothy and Toddoe are ok???
    • D
      D  •  3 mths ago
      Well I won't think about that today. I'll think about that tomorrow."
    • t. k. Laurence
      t. k. Laurence  •  3 mths ago
      Bummer, but, interesting that it burned in Atlanta, just like the city itself in the movie, hummm.............
      • Telstar62
        Telstar62 3 mths ago
        I guess that's what's called "irony".
    • D
      D  •  3 mths ago
      Loved the Carol Burnett spoof entitled "Went With the Wind:"
      Harvey Korman: "Scarlett, that dress - it's gorgeous!"
      Carol Burnett: "Thank ye, I saw it in the windah and I jest had to have it!"
    • Brian Ciesil
      Brian Ciesil  •  McHenry, Illinois  •  3 mths ago
      Oh the Irony...
    • J.
      J.  •  Los Angeles, California  •  3 mths ago
      Up in smoke and (you guessed it) gone with the wind.
    • William
      William  •  Richardson, Texas  •  3 mths ago
      Gone With the Wind is now Gone With the Fire.
    • Guy
      Guy  •  3 mths ago
      How fitting.
    • na na na na
      na na na na  •  3 mths ago
      I thought it burned up in the movie...
    • javan p
      javan p  •  Washington, District of Columbia  •  3 mths ago
      Well, that's ironic.
    • Shalt
      Shalt  •  Studio City, California  •  3 mths ago
      Gone, with the Wind
    • bill
      bill  •  3 mths ago
      frankly my dear, I don't give a #$%$
    • Joaquin Closet
      Joaquin Closet  •  Los Angeles, California  •  3 mths ago
      Well, here in Los Angeles, the building that was used as the facade for "Terra" is still around, right next to what was once MGM studios, but is now SONY studios in Culver City. Strange that the actual location where the filming of the burning of Atlanta took place is still with us.
    • joeG
      joeG  •  New York, New York  •  3 mths ago
      Frankly, my dear................
    • rustybucket55
      rustybucket55  •  Warren, Ohio  •  3 mths ago
      I hope R E Lee's pic was there too.
    • blah
      blah  •  3 mths ago
      That's why you don't store everything in one place, like when the Uffizi museum in italy was flooded and thousands of hundred year old books and paintings were destroyed.
    • Jack
      Jack  •  New York, New York  •  3 mths ago
      It was a great movie which was superbly cast. That year Thomas Mitchell appeared in "Gone With the Wind," "Stagecoach." "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington," "The Hunchback of Notre Dame," and "Only Angels Have Wings." As well casted as the movie was the book was much better binding itself as all good stories do to the inner recesses of the mind. It will live within me forever.
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