Did you know that you need a special motion picture permit to rent a real gun? Check out The Hand Prop Room gun room and go into their secret (OK, well, not so secret, vault).
Light Iron is a post production company specializing in on-site dailies, digital intermediate, archival, and data services for projects originated on file-based motion cameras. Today, we take a tour of their facilities.
Rick Lazzarini started by designing the inner animatronics of the Queen Alien in Alien and was on the mechanical crew for Stan Winston. Now go behind the scenes with Rick at The Character Shop.
Located in California, Caravan West houses guns, clothing, props and just about everything you could ever need to film a Western Films.
With 66,000 sq feet of space the Costume Rentals Corporation is a costume designers dream space.
Greg Nicotero, The Walking Dead, started KNB Effects Group in 1988 with partners Howard Berger and Robert Kurtzman. His credits are too numerous to list. Greg was kind enough to give us a tour of his studio.
Curious to know how Milla Jovovich fastened her gun to her leg? We go behind the scenes with Walter Kalssen at his workshop where he creates film props, weapons and animatronics.
About This Episode Marine coordinator Jimmy O’Connell has seen his fair share of major underwater films. From Waterworld (remember that movie?) to the award-winning Life of Pi to All is Lost, this is the perspective of a guy you don’t hear from often.
Selected Filmography About this Episode From Pimp Coats to the Great Gratsby to the “wiggle dress” (aka Joan’s dress on ‘Mad Men”), host Emily Buller takes you on a tour of the Ian Drummond Collection. Over 16,000 pieces of vintage clothing in more than 4500 sq feet of space. From the 1920’s to the 1990’s, …