Title: Hollywood SFX Museum: Back to the Future Exhibition.
Total pages: 122.
Orientation: Left to right.
Original price: not sold in stores.
ISBN: none.
Catalog Number: none.
Published by: Hata International, ©1990.
Added Bonus: Available in two different covers.
Contents: The motherlode of all publications! This extremely rare book is a "guide book" of sorts to a Japanese Museum tour that toured the country when BTTF3 was coming out in 1990. Unlike all of the publications listed above, this was not a store-bought publication. Attendees of the museum tour received these books as part of their admission, or were purchased separately at the respective museum.
There were only four museums on the Hollywood SFX tour:
Daimaru Museum Kyoto, March 21-27, 1990
Hakata Daimaru Art Gallery, April 26 - May 8, 1990
Daimaru Museum Tokyo, July 26 - August 6, 1990
Daimaru Museum Umeda, August 8-19, 1990
According to Bob Gale's office, the props placed in the museum tour never made it back to Universal, as they were all stolen in route back stateside.
The book covers props from all three films, including storyboards, concept drawings, photographs, etc. Most of the text is written in Japanese, but the forewards from Robert Zemeckis & Bob Gale are in both languages, as is the index of each item in the back, along with the credits. Pages 12-24 deal with BTTF1; 25-77 with BTTF2; 78-89 with BTTF3, and the rest is from a few other movies on the SFX Museum tour, including "*batteries not included", "Gremlins", "Poltergeist 2", "Top Gun", "1984", "Star Trek", "Alien", "Flight of the Navigator", "Ghostbusters", "Solarbabies", and "Masters of the Universe". Of those films, there are only 1 or more photos each, ranging from props to miniatures to set photos.
This title is a very popular one among BTTF prop collectors, and is considered to be the definitive resource for prop photographs.