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  • 6/4/2025
Watch the official trailer for Lost to the Future – The Search for Marty McFly's Back to the Future Guitar, a globe-trotting documentary unraveling the mystery of the cherry red Gibson ES-345 used in Back to the Future. Vanished since 1985, this legendary guitar helped spark a musical revolution after Marty McFly shredded “Johnny B. Goode” on the Hill Valley stage. Now, filmmakers set out to track it down, uncovering its influence on generations of musicians and the lasting power of one of cinema’s most unforgettable scenes.
Transcript
00:00Hi, I'm Michael J. Fox. You may know me as Marty McFly.
00:08Leah Thompson here. I played Lorraine McFly in Back to the Future.
00:11There's something very important that all of us are involved with.
00:16We need your help.
00:17We are on the lookout for a missing guitar.
00:20We're trying to find the guitar because I played in Back to the Future.
00:23No one's seen that guitar since 1985, and we need to find it.
00:27Somehow, it's vanished.
00:29Erased from existence.
00:32It's somewhere lost in the space-time continuum, or it's in some teamster's garage.
00:38This guitar has been lost to the future.
00:43We're kind of hoping you can help us find it.
00:45Ask your friends. Ask your relatives. Ask your bandmates.
00:48If you know where it is, if you know who has it, call us, text us.
00:52Go to losttothefuture.com or call this 800 number below. We need your help.
00:56We'll make a hero out of you.
00:58We will all be so grateful.
01:00You need a guitar.
01:01Michael?
01:02Michael?
01:03Michael?
01:04Michael?
01:06I'm sorry.
01:07I'm afraid you're just too darn loud.
01:11Is that you?
01:13Oh, my brother?
01:15This is an important piece of cinema history, cinema memorabilia.
01:20Help us find it.
01:21Losttothefuture.com and give us your hints, your ideas. Maybe your sight.
01:28Or there might be a paradox.
01:34A paradox.
01:36So, close.
01:37And, uh...
01:39...
01:52I've seen a block, who's a thing?
01:53I've seen a fairy- What none?

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