An Iconic Prop From ‘Back to the Future’ Is Missing, and a New Documentary Aims to Track It Down

There are two places memorable props from blockbuster movies and TV tend to end up: in someone’s personal collection, or on the auction block (destined for someone’s personal collection). But sometimes, a much-coveted item goes missing, lost in the sands of time or maybe in a long-forgotten storage unit. That’s the case with a crucial Back to the Future item—Marty McFly’s red guitar, deployed to disrupt musical history at the Enchantment Under the Sea dance—and now there’s a whimsical push to track it down. According to Gibson, which is behind this effort as well as an in-production documentary entitled Lost to the Future: The Search for Marty McFly’s Back to the Future Guitar, the instrument has been MIA since at least 1989, when it couldn’t be found to appear in Back to the Future Part II. Do you, perhaps, have a cherry red Gibson ES-345 gathering dust that you acquired in 1985 or thereabouts? Gibson has a tip line set up just for fans to chime in: you can call or text 1-855-345-19 ... Read full article.