There are probably thousands of props you could build to make your house seem scarier on the big "Fright Night". The ones described and detailed on this site were made personally by us. Most of the ideas came from the back of our imagination, while many others were built by getting ideas from Mark Butlers Monster List of Halloween Projects. Many other ideas and help has been found by the subscribing to the friendly and easy going Halloween-L List as well as the more advanced Howl 2000 List. These sites and lists are great places to go to not only get ideas on making new props but to also meet people with the same interests, Halloween!Jim Elyea's prop house, History For Hire, is a 35,000-square-foot warehouse stacked to the rafters with with vintage items. Everything from pay phone booths to typewriters, technicolor cereal boxes from the 1950s to eyeglasses from the 1800s. "The number of items we have probably approaches a million," said Elyea. "We have a barcode system so that we can track things and we found that on a good week we'll send out a thousand to 1,500 individual props."
Every section of the labyrinthine warehouse is carefully organized by category, like a massive department store frozen in time. There are housewares, military items (like replicas of the fat man and little boy nuclear bombs that well on Hiroshima and Nagasaki), and a medical section so comprehensive it even includes three different replicas of FDR's wooden wheelchair in various finishes. "When we did 'Pearl Harbor', the director knew that most people nowadays don't know that Franklin Roosevelt was a polio victim, so they stained the chair to match the desk he was sitting at and started off the scene where he was at the desk and then there was the big reveal where all of a sudden he wheels out," said Elyea. Some of the medical props can get a little gruesome. Like the jar of fake eyes, and then of course, there are the medical tools. "In the movie 'Master and Commander' when the little boy gets his leg cut off, it was our saws that did the job," said Elyea. There are fees for clean up, props are charged by the week and you've got to be in the industry to check them out.
So, sorry if you had your eye on that Spinal Tap Stonehenge for your next theme party. In showbiz, this is the place to go for all your period piece needs, no matter how esoteric or macabre. "Now we've come across our most rented item, which is our electric chair. In it we've grilled Robert Shapiro, Steven Ray, Billy Bob Thornton, Quentin Tarantino, Snoop Dogg and Madonna," said Elyea. Madonna wound up in the chair for her video for the title track for the James Bond flick "Die Another Day" So how do you wind up with a gig like this? Collecting odds and ends from the past few centuries? "I got into this area I was doomed from the start. My mother had an antique shop and we went out on weekends junking as we called it said Elyea. "So I would buy things and put them on consignment in my mom's shop so I was always doing little businesses." As an adult Elyea started renting items out of his overflowing garage, but eventually his collection grew so large he moved it to a warehouse.
With almost 30 years in business, he's really got a knack for this stuff. He's built an impressive collection, parts of which can be seen in the current crop of awards movies. "I haven't seen 'Saving Mr. Banks', but we did a lot for it. I'm told that here's one of our tape recorders that plays over the credits and then stops so it's featured," said Elyea. "We're like stage parents with our stuff. We did specialty props for the movie 'Oscar' and all went to the theater to watch it and when the case came on we all applauded and everyone in the audience went, 'What? What is it?' but we were applauding the props." Check out the other entries in the Odd Hollywood Jobs series: Click for Halloween Events Photo Gallery MINIMUM ORDER POLICYPick-Up Orders: $750 MinimumDelivery Orders: Quotes Available Upon Request Arms Rising from the Ground Buzzards on Cactus Prop Futuristic - Space Props Man in Electric Chair- Animated New Orleans Style Gates Alien & Sci-Fi Masks
Ghosts & Ghouls Masks Clown & Monster Shoes Halloween & Movie Wigs Horror & Fairy Wings Alien & Sci-Fi Props Body Parts & Blood Bloody / Gory Props Creepy Puppets & Dolls Horror Busts & Models Standing Monsters & Killers Air Blasters & Controllers Ghost Bust Talking Heads Fog Machines & Electronics Thunder & Lighting Effects Christmas Animatronics, Props, Etc. Haunted House Lighting / FX 1 2 3 →Wooden electric chair with leather restraining straps Wooden electric chair with leather restraining straps. Curious Science has a wide range of period General Props specimens for hire as props to the tv and film industry. We have many General Props examples available which are not on view on our web site. Please contact us on 0208 961 3113. « Return to General Props Curious Science, 5-7 Commercial Way, Park Royal, London, NW10 7XF Tel: +44 020 8961 3113 Mob: +44 07956 834094 Open 9-5 Mon-FriElectric ChairThe man responsible for many Electric Chair & Electric Souls artwork over the years, Mr Paul Hemmingfield will be holding an exhibition in May at Electrik bar, Chorlton of ‘Geometric Records’.
In his own words "i’m going to take classic album art and then rework it using heavily stylised geometric patterns"... There is already a few ideas in the pipeline but he wanted to open it publicly for some suggestions of album cover ideas, any that are deemed to work well for the conc...ept may get used and you will get a free print copy for your wall! Sign off below with ideas & pics! More on Paul here: Twitter : @Pin_Stud_io www.pin-stud.io Electric Chair shared El Diablo's Social Club's event — with and Neil Scott.After rocking Hidden for us on Dec 27th at the End Of Year Riot, Dicky Trisco is back in the city to party hard alongside Neil Diablo at El Diablo's Social Club! Location is a highly guarded secret but hints are telling us its the function room at Trafford Conservative club (egg & cress butties on arrival) ;) El Diablo's Social Club w/ Dicky Trisco (Disco Deviance) Virginia Christian (15 August 1895 – 16 August 1912) was the first female criminal executed in the 20th century in the state of Virginia, and a juvenile offender executed in the United States.
She was also the only female juvenile executed by electric chair and, to date, the last female criminal executed in the electric chair by the Commonwealth of Virginia. She was the last female criminal executed by the Commonwealth until Thursday, September 23, 2010 when Teresa Lewis became the first female criminal in nearly a century to be executed in the US state of Virginia. Christian, a black maid, was convicted for the murder of her employer Mrs. Ida Virginia Belote, a white woman, aged 72 years, in her home at Hampton on 18 March 1912.[3] It is said she confessed that she hit Belote shortly after she was arrested. Belote frequently mistreated Christian, and in mid- March 1912, an argument ensued between the two in which Belote accused Christian of stealing a locket and a skirt. Belote hit Christian with a cuspidor, commonly called a 'spittoon'. The altercation escalated when Christian and Belote ran for two broom handles Belote used to prop up her bedroom windows. Christian grabbed one of the broom handles and struck Belote on the forehead.
In an attempt to stifle Belote’s screams, Christian stuffed a towel down Belote’s throat, and the woman died by suffocation. When Christian left the house, she stole Belote’s purse with some money and a ring. One newspaper reported that police found Belote’s body “laying face down in a pool of blood, and her head was horribly mutilated and a towel was stuffed into her mouth and throat”. (Streib & Sametz, 1989, p. 25; see also Moten, 1997) Police soon arrested Christian, and during questioning she admitted to hitting Belote but was shocked that Belote was dead. Christian claimed she had no intent to kill Belote. With a lynch mob looming in the background, an Elizabeth City County Court tried and convicted Christian for murder and the trial judge sentenced her to death in the state’s electric chair. One day after her 17th birthday in August 1912, a short five months after the crime, Virginia authorities executed Christian at the state penitentiary in Richmond. Governor William Hodges Mann declined to commute the death sentence, despite a plea from Virginia's mother, Charlotte Christian,[3] who wrote to him: