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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.
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.
Must be some really interesting article for that many people to be reading it.
ReplyDeleteI never knew blogging could be this much fun!
ReplyDeleteThat 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.
ReplyDeleteLove bundy!
ReplyDeleteI knew they reused props, but I never realized to what extent. Nice find.
ReplyDeleteThis blew my mind the first time I saw it
ReplyDeletedamn thats awesome. Ed O'Neil handling the same paper twice in different decades. Circle of life man. ha
ReplyDeletei wonder why it is this way? thats pretty interesting stuff though, nice blog.
ReplyDeletewow, that is amazing. thanks for bringing this to my attention.
ReplyDeleteThat is fricking hilarious!
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