Re-used props

[Metryq]

Naturally, a given series will re-use its own props, but the most interesting re-uses are when an original prop appears somewhere completely unexpected. For example, the PKE meter from Ghostbusters (the handheld unit with the LED "arms" sticking out of it) appeared in They Live as a communicator.

And let's not forget Dr. McCoy's surgical salt shakers, or Luke defending the galaxy with a Graflex flash unit.

[JunkMonkey]

Here's one I spotted a while ago: (Though they're costumes really rather than props.)


Flight to Mars


Cat Women of the Moon


King Dinosaur by the_junk_monkey, on Flickr


1953 ... 'Robot Monster!' by x-ray delta one, on Flickr



PS: Here's confirmation of the Firefly / Starship Troopers costume reuse:
http://www.recycledmoviecostumes.com...antasy003.html

[Starbeast]

Originally Posted by JunkMonkey

Here's one I spotted a while ago: (Though they're costumes really rather than props.)

These costumes were also in Destination Moon (1950) & Abbott and Costello Go To Mars (1953).

[JunkMonkey]

You're right. I'd forgotten about Destination Moon.

Cat Women of the Moon also made use of some of the the same sets as Project Moon Base (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046213/)

I'm sure we could turn this into a game. Sort of like Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon but with props...

[clovis-man]

Originally Posted by JunkMonkey

Here's one I spotted a while ago: (Though they're costumes really rather than props.)


Flight to Mars

You have to love the pastel colors used in the early technicolor space movies.

[Ursa major]

I don't recall seeing the film. Did the two astronauts in the red (orangish?) suits get killed before the others?



As for re-use, Wiki says this about Flight to Mars:

This film reuses almost all the cabin interior details from Rocketship X-M (Lippert Pictures, 1950, and filmed at another studio), except for some of the flight instruments. Even the spaceflight noises are reused. Similarly, the concepts of spaceflight are those postulated in that earlier film.

[Toby Frost]

Weren't those suits re-used in the Teletubbies?

[JunkMonkey]

Cat Women of the Moon by the_junk_monkey, on Flickr

Take the wall away and stick someone sat behind a desk at a weird angle in the hole and you have a giant wall sized monitor! Genius! Pity about the shadows of the actors 'on the moon' falling across the desk of the general 'on Earth' but there we go.


Project Moon Base by the_junk_monkey, on Flickr

Bravura piece of acting by the actor playing the General here by the way - in a later scene out hero paces back and forth right in front of him and he doesn't loose the eyeline with the invisible camera he is supposed to be addressing.

[JunkMonkey]

Originally Posted by JunkMonkey

Here's one I spotted a while ago: (Though they're costumes really rather than props.)

D-094b[1] by the_junk_monkey, on Flickr

[Ursa major]

That's rather an appropriate title for a novel being published as one half of an Ace Double.