Prop Culture

The film historian and prop collector Dan Lanigan, who I earlier mentioned, tracks down the original props, costumes, and sets from classic Disney films like Mary Poppins, Tron, The Nightmare Before Christmas, and Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

This one is a really, really excellent series.

I enjoyed it a lot.

And if you're like me and you enjoy behind the scenes movie information, you might have at one time or another wondered, what was the single most replicated prop on a set? In other words, every prop used in production has to have multiples on hand to be used in the scenes, especially in case of damage, et cetera, et cetera.

The shoes were originally designed by Adrian, and Adrian, if you don't know, was one of the most famous costume designers in old Hollywood.

These were produced by the Innis Shoe Company, and the materials used to create the shoes include leather, silk, sequins, rhinestones, bugle beads, and costume jewels.

on a side note there was a series i watched some time ago called cursed films which is an interesting series in its own right because it talks about strange things that happened on different films and notorious lore and just those kind of stories like what happened on the set of the crow and the hanging in the wizard of oz stuff like that so if you're into things like that you might check out cursed films There's a segment, however, in that series that talks about the Wizard of Oz.

And the curator from the Smithsonian says that he has seen people cry when they see these props for the first time because people just associate the magic with these things that we've seen in our favorite movies and TV.