Saturday, October 16, 2010

The recurring prop newspaper

If you watch enough television shows and movies, then you might even start to notice that a bunch of the same props are used over and over again. I first noticed this with a magazine prop in various television shows including Married With Children, which featured a gum advertisement on the back cover. Someone on Reddit recently put together a compilation of photos from various television shows, commercials and movies, showing how one newspaper prop gets around and is reused, and reused again.
I don’t know the story behind this prop newspaper, but I assume it was created as a royalty free prop for television shows. Somewhere along the line, the prop became a recurring gag between propmasters. Something like how sound designers reuse the  Wilhem Scream in every movie. Check out some examples after the jump.

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And here is more:
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A Murder of Crows
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A texasi láncf?részes
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No Country For Old Men
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Angel 3×04
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Lucky Louie - 1×06
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Everybody hates Chris 2×05
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Desperate Housewives - 2×13
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Scrubs 6×16
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Modern Family 1×16







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10 comments:

  1. Must be some really interesting article for that many people to be reading it.

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  2. I never knew blogging could be this much fun!

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  3. That is hilarious! Never realized that the same paper was used over and over again. Wonder if it really says anything or is just a bunch of random words.

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  4. I knew they reused props, but I never realized to what extent. Nice find.

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  5. This blew my mind the first time I saw it

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  6. damn thats awesome. Ed O'Neil handling the same paper twice in different decades. Circle of life man. ha

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  7. i wonder why it is this way? thats pretty interesting stuff though, nice blog.

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  8. wow, that is amazing. thanks for bringing this to my attention.

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