If you’re noticing the props, you’re doing your job wrong

Prop masters are versatile, flitting between genres and centuries. And they all adore period pieces, when the prop master’s job becomes an exercise in preventing anachronisms. In this article prop masters talk about the hardest props of their careers:

• Cast Away (2000), Wilson the volleyball
• Charlie Wilson’s War (2007), the newspaper on 9/11
• The Blacklist (2013–2015), a dog
• Airplane! (1980), the fish skeleton
• Pee-wee’s Big Adventure (1985), the breakaway bottles
• The Social Network (2010), Mark Zuckerberg’s personal laptops
• The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), the pastry box (above) 
• Apollo 13 (1995), assorted Mission Control accessories and flight manuals 
• Angels & Demons (2009), the ring 
• Rush (1991), the drugs 
• The Addams Family (1991), the dinner 
• Cocoon (1985), the “aliens’ box”

See movie clips with the props and read  more about them here

Thanks Bruce!