- Edmund Kara: Packed in a specially-designed crate, lined with the same protective material used for explosives, and insured for $25,000, the statue leaves California to be shipped by jet to New York and then aboard the Queen Mary to France.
- Edmund Kara: From a one-ton redwood log, lying in a field for nearly 12 years, has come one of the most creative and expensive props ever fashioned for a motion picture.