Maker, Cosplayer, Hobby Historian. I like to make whatever I am able, and sometimes things that I'm not. 3d printing, laser cutting and engraving, CNC, wood working, metal working, scratch building, blah blah blah. I like to try new things. But above all, I love movie props and the history behind them.
I endeavour to upload once a week, on Wednesdays at 6pm EST.
Imagine being SO IGNORANT that you DONT know movie props are made from random stuff. Movie props are basically "kitbashing" until you get something great!
@AmeiFinn human memory is extremely fallible and open to suggestion. Whenever you "remember " something youre not actually remembering the specific event. Youre remembering the last time you recalled it. Little things change over time. Its like a wierd game of "telephone " ...except its with yourself.
The movie Shazaam (it had two “a” in the title) absolutely did exist. Many people don’t know why which is why they cannot give you a plausible response other than that they saw it, but I do know why but i can gaurantee you would discount the reason and your cognitive dissonance would kick into overdrive and quite honestly, i can do without the potential ridicule and condecension. What i will tell you is that the movie did exist and that it existed for certain people from a specific time (hence your observation of people who watched Shaazam only up to a certain genre, although there are only a few million of us from a population of a world statistic of a few billion) but it did not exist for you nor others like you so essentially, you and I (and those in both our camps) are both 100% correct.
I love stories of how ordinary stuff gets made into cool props - limitations breed creativity! It's thanks to limitations that Michael Myers' mask turned out the way it did, and it's now one of rhe most iconic images in all of cinema.
I literally watched it in the theater in my hometown of 2500 people at the time.. my friends still have the VHS. That says Shazam with Sinbad.. CERN messed up time
And real spacesuits have regular everyday breathable stitches in them and ordinary YKK zippers in the VAAAACUUUUM OF SPAAAACE!!" and you sillies believe in it!
Peter Jackson couldn't afford a steady cam rig in his early days, so him and his mates made a rig from aluminium scaffold tubes and universal joints from car prop shafts. $20
@PropsToHistory where do you source this information from? do you have a website or is there a prop history website with info like this, that you know of?
What people don't realize is that some famous drawing Styles are based on limitations like resources or technology. In other words limitations make you creative, not abundance
All the best do it. Doctor Who did it on a budget of "whatever was in their pockets at the time" which is why the daleks and cybermen and the sonic screwdriver looks like that. It shows creativity and is an inspiration for people making costumes for conventions and things.
No CG can emulate human ingenuity and awesome creativity. though I love AI and CG-new gen kids NEED to learn EVERYTHING they love came from a coffee grinder and an ikea rug and THATS true MOVIE MAGIC AI and CG are just TOOLS But the Spirit?? THATS true power
