Saturday Night Fever” Dance Floor Goes Up For Auction

The “Saturday Night Fever” dance floor where John Travolta captured the 1970’s disco craze is going up for sale next month and could fetch up to $1.5 b
   The dance floor that lit up in red, blue and yellow in rhythm to the music was custom-built for the 1977 movie whose soundtrack featured disco hits by the Bee Gees including “Night Fever” and “You Should Be Dancing.”
The floor, measuring 24 feet by 16 feet (7 meters by 5 meters) and housing more than 250 separate light compartments, was fitted into a small club in Brooklyn for the film’s famous dance scenes, said Profiles in History, a Calabasas, California-based auction house.
It will go up for auction in Los Angeles during the June 26-28 Profiles in History Hollywood Auction, and carries an estimated price of $1 million to $1.5 million.
Chief executive of New York-based party planning group AMPM ,Vito Bruno, who owns the floor, said he started his career at 2001 Odyssey, the club in Brooklyn where “Saturday Night Fever” was filmed.
The club later changed its name and then closed in 2 005.

“The movie, ‘Saturday Night Fever’ made this floor iconic because it ushered in an entire new music genre and it was the focal point of an entire generation,” He said.
“Saturday Night Fever,” the story of a working-class Brooklyn youth trying to break out of his dead-end life through dancing, launched Travolta as an international movie star.
Actor Joseph Cali played Joey in the film and said seeing the floor after all these years is nostalgic.
“You see the floor it takes you right back – I mean, it’s like it was yesterday. Because the floor is in such great condition, you know, and the lights start flashing. I just remember it was my first feature film, the floor represents, it’s an icon, you know. So it’s incredible, really felt great.”He said
Travolta rehearsed for months to perfect his dance moves, and his white-suited disco dancer became one of the enduring images of the 1970’s disco scene.
In 2010, the film was deemed “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.