On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 11:33:34PM +0100, Tony Duell wrote:
I was
contacted by the prop guys (although they did not mention Mad
Men) a year or so back, and was seriously thinking about loaning some
of my pieces (card machines that a model 30 would have used - they
insisted on a model 30), until they mentioned that the machines might
be "modified" to suit the production.
Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope.
There have been sotries of film (movie) companies who have asked to
borrow antique furniture, etc, and agreed an insurance value wit hthe
owner. They then complete trashed it as required for the film and simply
paid the owner the insurance value. Needless to say said owners were not
exactly happy about this.
I was told to _never_ lend anything to such companies
There is more than one owner of classic cars who made the mistake to loan
one or more of his (usually lovingly preserved) vehicle(s) to movie companies,
only to get it/them back heavily damaged 'as required for the film'. The movie
companies cheerfully pay up (what is another couple dozen grand when your
budget is in the two figure millions?), but said owners tended to be not
very impressed by that.
The general vibe I get from this and other sources: only "loan" to movie
companies that which you are can accept to get back as scrap.
Kind regards,
Alex.
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