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Author Archives: Eric Hart
The People Who Prop Up the Shows
The People Who Prop Up the Shows, by Davi Napoleon, is an oldie but a goodie. Though written in 2001, it still has a lot of great information on a number of the top prop professionals and how they got into the business. Some of the names in the article have been mentioned before on [...]
The Movie Prop-Hunters’ Museum
The Movie Prop-Hunters’ Museum by Charles Abbott Goddard The prop man must scratch the word “can’t” from his vocabulary. The property man of the studio, the man who gets various articles that appear to make the setting realistic, has to know what to get for the studio to develop settings which the audience sees completed. [...]
A Shocking History of Stage Horror
Tabula Rasa has a history of gore effects used in theatre. Some highlights include: Loading a dummy with animal blood and animal intestines for realistic disembowelings Hiding a lamb’s tongue in an actor’s mouth to simulate him biting it off The history goes all the way back to Ancient Greece. It’s interesting to see how [...]
Natalie Kearns, Prop Master
Natalie Kearns has a blog about her life as a props master. It’s a little slim at the moment, so let’s hope she keeps writing!
A body for Bacchae: Part Two