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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!..."
Read the rest"It was a weekend.
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/aWnsmgv1u2E/prop-masters-share-most-diffic.html