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September 17, 2019 01:30 pm PDT

Prop masters share most difficult objects they ever made

TIL: In general, props are the items actors touch/handle, everything else is part of the set decoration and not the responsibility of the property master.

Vulture has a fun piece that talks with veterans of the trade about their semis full of hoards, how they source items, and the most challenging props they've created in their career.

A few highlights:

Robin L. Miller, creator of Wilson the volleyball for Cast Away (2000):

"I needed the Wilson only on one side of the ball. I needed to do a face on the other side. Apparently they were made in China. They had to do a special run of them. She would only give me 20. I went, 20? Im going to Fiji with these things! And I needed as many as I could get, because things happen to props all the time... She only could make me 20. And we made do with that..."

Steven Levine, Airplane! (1980) and Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985):

"...Peter Graves, who was the pilot, ate the fish they did an insert of his plate showing a skeleton. Like, he picked it clean, right? So I wound up contacting a museum. I paid, I dunno, $350 or something for this fish skeleton. And it looked great! Well, this assistant director found out how much I spent, and then he started passing around, You know how much Levine spent on that fish? All he had to do was It wasnt even his business! Fuck you!..."

"It was a weekend.

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Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/aWnsmgv1u2E/prop-masters-share-most-diffic.html

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