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Grail Diary
Please Note: This is NOT my Grail Diary creation
The Holy Grail of Christ is considered potentially the most mystical of all religious artifacts of all time. It is mentioned in various legends and is said to hold magical supernatural powers to he who drinks drinks from it. Many have searched for it throughout time.
The Grail Diary play a central role in the 1989 film Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. This is the third film in the Indiana Jones franchise and is set largely in 1938. Here, Indiana Jones searches for his father, a Holy Grail scholar, who has been kidnapped by Nazis searching for the Holy Grail of Christ. The Grail diary itself contains the accumulation of Dr. Jones Senior's notes from his lifelong search for the Holy Grail.
The plot starts out in 1912, where thirteen-year-old Indiana Jones is horseback riding with his Boy Scout troop in Utah. He discovers grave robbers in a cave who find an ornamental cross which belonged to Coronado. He steals the cross from them and as they give chase, Indiana hides in a circus train, in the process using a whip, scarring his chin, and gaining a fear of snakes. Although he escapes, the grave robbers bring the sheriff, and Indy is forced to return it. Meanwhile, his oblivious father, Henry Jones, Sr., is working on his research into the Holy Grail, keeping meticulous notes in a diary. The leader of the hired robbers, dressed very similarly to the future Indiana and impressed by the young Indy's tenacity, gives him his fedora and some encouraging words. In 1938, Indiana recovers the cross from the robbers and donates it to Marcus Brody's museum.
Indiana is introduced to Walter Donovan, who informs him that Indy's estranged father has vanished while searching for the Holy Grail, using an incomplete inscription as his guide. Indy receives a package which turns out to be his father's Grail diary, containing all his life's research. Understanding that his father would not have sent the diary unless he was in trouble, Indiana and Marcus travel to Venice, where they meet Henry's colleague, Dr. Elsa Schneider. Beneath the library where Henry was last seen, Indiana and Elsa discover catacombs and the tomb of a knight of the First Crusade, with a complete version of the inscription that Henry used. They flee when the catacombs are set aflame by The Brotherhood of the Cruciform Sword, a secret society. They are pursued and escape on a speedboat, and a chase through Venice ensues in which they capture the secret society's leader, Kazim. After Indiana convinces him of their intentions, Kazim explains The Brotherhood are protecting the Grail from those with evil intentions, and that Henry was abducted to Grunwald Castle on the Austrian-German border.
Indiana infiltrates the castle, and finds his father, but learns that Elsa and Donovan are working with the Nazis, hoping that Indiana would discover the location of the Grail for them. The Nazis capture Marcus, who had traveled to Iskenderun, Hatay with the map. The Joneses are able to escape and recover the diary from Elsa at a Nazi rally in Berlin. They then meet Sallah in Hatay, where they learn of Marcus' abduction and that the Nazis are already moving to the Grail's location. With the help of The Brotherhood, the Joneses ambush the Nazi convoy and rescue Marcus. Donovan and Elsa continue on to the Canyon of the Crescent Moon, the location of the Grail.
Indy, Henry, Marcus, and Sallah catch up and find that the Nazis are unable to pass through traps set before the Grail. After the four are discovered, Donovan shoots Henry, mortally wounding him, and forces Indiana to circumvent the traps using the information in his father's diary, with Donovan and Elsa following. Indiana succeeds and finds himself in a room with the last Knight, kept alive with the power of the Grail, which has been hidden among several other cups. Elsa selects a gilded cup encrusted in jewels for Donovan; when Donovan drinks from it, he rapidly decays and crumbles into dust. Indiana, recognizing that the Grail would be that of a humble carpenter instead of a wealthy king, selects the correct vessel, and quickly takes it to his father with the holy water, which heals his wounds. As they prepare to leave, the Knight warns them to not take the Grail past the temple's seal, but Elsa disobeys, causing the temple to collapse. Elsa falls into an abyss while attempting to recover the Grail, Indiana nearly suffers the same fate until his father tells him to let it go. The Joneses, Marcus, and Sallah narrowly escape the collapsing temple. The four then ride out of the canyon, and into the sunset.
This turned out to be a very fun and adventurous movie and the Grail Diary is one of the most interesting and symbolic movie props of all time. Many movie enthusiasts have gone on their own quest to own a Grail Diary of their own.
Grail Diary
Images obviously belong to Sarednab
The Grail Diary used in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade comes in two forms, "Hero Diary" and "Story Diary." The "Hero Diary" is a copy of the actual main movie prop used in the movie itself. It generally contains repeats of text and drawings to fill its pages and potentially even includes cue cards for the main actors. The "Story Diaries" are diaries fabricated to include a readable storyline that one might expect in a real diary of Dr. Jones Sr's lifelong search for the Holy Grail.
The original movie diaries (hero and b-props) are believed to be made by Keir Lusby
Links
Major Resources
indygear.com - Official Grail Diary Pages
indygear.com - Unofficial Grail Diary Pages
indygear.com - Invented Grail Diary Pages
indygear.com - Grail Diary Inserts
indygear.com - OLD_SITE/sitemap
indygear.com - Archived Pages
indianajones.dk - Grail Diary - Make Your own!
indianajones.dk - Grail Diary Tutorial
indianajones.dk - The Text
indianajones.dk - The Inserts
indianajones.dk - The Drawings
indianajones.dk -
Invented Text
sites.google.com/site/graildiary - Marcin Szyniszewski The Grail Diary Search
indyquest.nl - Indy Quest - Warning: Visiting this site may harm your computer! Malware will/may be installed on your computer.
Has a complete printable diary, fonts, tablet template and other useful items.
Grail Diary at Club Obi Wan (COW) - must be a logged in member, DIY info
Grail Diary On-Line Dead Link waybackmachine 2002
indianajonesprops.com Dead and short lived
indianajones.es Replicas of objects - Spanish
Text/Written Content
moedred.livejournal 1199.html various comics, text and other movie items
Grail Diary PDF Game version Grail Diary
Game Diary PDF
Britannia King Arthur in Legend - Holy Grail Candidates
COW 3859 - order
COW 4140 - order
COW 5299 - order
theindyexperience - Indy Timeline history - Archive
omniglot dictionaries.htm writing systems and languages of the world
babel.uoregon.edu Coptic Fonts
Drawings
Camelot Project at the University of Rochester Text and Images
book Flowering of the Middle Ages - images cup.gif knight.gif chapelle.gif blackstone.gif angelfire grail_diary.htm
COW 6468 Crucifixion Illustration/Painting - FOUND!!!
Inserts
sites.google.com/site/graildiary - Marcin Szyniszewski The Grail Diary Search
rac3d.com - rob3d
Franc Download Mark Raats
100 Francs-1938
Front -
Not 1937
100 Francs-1938 Back
According to the Lucasfilm Archives the rubbing measures 41cm x 58cm. This is about 16" x 23". When folded it will stick out of your diary a bit 28lb off-white/ivory colored paper
earthlink ~wolfz3/indy DiaryBatFont, 1899 Silverback images, stamps
Silver Certificate measures 3-1/8" x 7-3/8" 2,54cm, this is 7.93cm X 18.73cm
hardscrabblefarm western_union_telegram.pdf
childrenofthemanhattanproject VD-042.jpg
sites.google.com/site/graildiary - Marcin Szyniszewski The Grail Diary Search
indylounge 3097
dbcooper
Some inserts and Miscellaneous items
COW 42516 Jameth
flickr 72157622574180375 barnett_college
Invented Pages
COW 5226 - invented pages
Antiquing
COW 6252 tea aging
Prop Replica Examples
keirlusby.com Keir Lusby - Original Grail Diary Prop Maker
COW 35262 maboot38
Sarednab's Grail Diary therpf 60009 COW 18098 COW 39485 COW 37934 indianajones.es 10140 therpf 58009 Sarednab COW 456155 therpf 80620 Italian Diary sarednabworldprops set01.jpg - set15.jpg manuali
Story Diary Hero Prop Diary Magnoli
therpf 103442 COW 17657 COW 17971 COW 23794 COW 24548 COW 27782 COW 26026 indylounge 1981 COW 48128 Indiana Holt
therpf 64720 COW 41097 COW 45607 COW 46336 indianajones.es 9569 indianajones.es 9690 demiguel.m
Gralstagebuch (Hero Version) German therpf.com - 89279 COW 47402 photobucket MurdocXXLs Diary Pics Stefan Jones
COW 35140 Bazza
COW 35645 ravencrow
swakprops swakprops ultimate-grail-diary-replica
MurdocXXLs Diary Pics MurdocXXLs
photobucket Stefan Jones & MurdocXXL
fotki.com Camiziodeltoro Camiziodeltoro; Netherlands
membres.multimania.fr Index Inserts Inprincipio; France
www.angelfire.com/stars3/zns72/grail_diary.htm
indianajones.es 3461 Oli-Wan; Spain
chrisguldager.com Christian Guldager
mattmunson1.blogspot Matt Munson
GRAIL DIARY by TANNIS PROPS for Indiana Jones collector
ecrater sold-out-indiana-jones-grail
therpf 83534 KramStaar/markraats's demiguel.m diary
Replica Prop Forum - First Draft of My Grail Diary Special font and Hitler's signature picasaweb
27mai.free.fr Sites.html - laurent - Flash of first part of Diary COW 2337 COW 28700 Pg2
COW 10389 COW 128216 QuantumGirl
COW 17838 Perceval
COW 21312 Doeindy
COW 22087 RobbyT43
COW 24687 Pictures of ReplicReal's and Kalkamels diaries imageshack
COW 14814 Indydier; French translated diary
COW 23149 WeeMadHamish
COW 27563 darthinvictus
imageshack Andymac84 COW 29543 COW 29424
COW 32125 spenyk
COW 34412 Jr. Jones
COW 35190 Indypit's redrommel diary (scroll down)
COW 37563 cntrctkllr
imageshack turtlemaster COW 37857 Turtlemaster
COW 2940808 COW 47203 therpf 43655 Vaderbreath
COW 3487474 Helder22 Charlie's diary
photobucket 011.jpg tundrarider COW 48194
photobucket Idahojones IdahoJones COW 41691
imageshack diary03.jpg tomvdj
photobucket.com Indy Gear Greatdane COW 41673
indianajones.es Diario del Grial made in DeMiguel Spanish
COW 41564 jacksparrow900's Sarednab diary
COW 42155 demiguel.m
indylounge 3297 Kalkamel COW 40626
COW 40626 kalkamel
imageshack dsc01607b.jpg Short Round's Sarednab hero prop grail diary COW 42303
COW 34789 morethanatimelord
imageshack andyanasgraildiary172dd1.jpg Andy Mac/Andymac84 imageshack andymac84 COW 29544 COW 29543 COW 29424
COW 45438 Indiego Jones' Sarednab's Hero Prop with comparatives
COW 46048 lelec2's Sarednab's diary
soundtracks.mixnmojo.com/diary/GrailDiary.html Laserschwert Warning - Malware and may crash browser. Safe archive preview here
picasaweb PropsIlDiarioDelGraal BazzanoJones COW 37934
COW 48790 therpf 60009 Pg2 dbcooper's Sarednab Story Grail Diary
indygear 14814 Indydier - Grail diary translate in French
chipcox grail-diary-from-indiana-jones-and-the-last-crusade Chip
indianajones.es 5056 Fedora_Smith Spanish
picasaweb.google PropsIlDiarioDelGraal therpf 89303 BazzanoJones/Dario Lazzari
therpf 88097 Sikosh
therpf. 60803 Sarednab's diary
Videos:
dailymotion xa4hy2_indiana-jones-henry-sr-grail-diary_shortfilms Indypit's demiguel.m diary COW 42155 COW 36286 Pg2
youtube 7i-YRaDMV-c Indy Magnoli COW 21217
youtube aMjNY1eETQo iskenderun COW 45245
originalprop san-diego-comic-con-2010-interview-with-brandon-alinger-of-prop-store-part-1 youtube TTgd9l2Vdns
Other:
INDIANA JONES PRINTABLE PAGES 1/6th pages; PDF
indyprops.com - archive - young Indy's diary
indyville.fi kuvakaappaukset - Screenshots
COW 25310 - questions to go over later
boardhost grail_diary Old forum
indianajonesprops grail_diary.html - archived dead page with lots of info
HPLHS Prop Document Collection Inserts, Fonts and prop information COW 33174 COW 33471
COW 21315 - "not authorised to read this forum"?
indy.mamo-net.de 3225 - Indy stuff
photobucket mszynisz mszynisz's album
headline Oct 1990—Industrial Light and Magic
High-tech hokum is changing the way movies are made.
Author: Richard Wolkomir
Photographer(s)/Illustrator: Michael Freeman (Photos)
Edition/Format: Article : English
Publication: Smithsonian, v. 21 (October 1990)
Pages: 112-125
Abstract: For the past 15 years, artists at San Rafael, California-based LucasArts Entertainment's visual-effects division, Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), have been innovators in the field of special effects. ILM has produced spectacular visual effects for more than 50 films and has attracted more business than its five major competitors combined. Established in 1975 when George Lucas began work on Star Wars, ILM continues to design increasingly sophisticated and imaginative effects. Their creation begins in the ILM art department, which develops the initial storyboards that guide other ILM artists and technicians in the often complex production of background paintings, creatures, models, and film images. Increasingly, computer graphics artists at ILM are using their talents to produce unprecedented digitized images. Several ILM special effects are discussed.
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