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spankalee ◴[] No.41083345[source]
It's interesting how they have a lot of individual parts for rent: https://apexsurplus.com/category/1602870794421x4091516396061...

How is this usually used? Do productions rent the parts to build more complete props, like a full plane interior, then tear it down and return the individual parts? Inventory control would seem very complicated!

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1. qingcharles ◴[] No.41083769[source]
For a full cockpit, the production would just buy one and trash it afterwards. Movies are one-shot corporations. Buy a bunch of shit, write it off. Prop rental is insanely expensive on the whole. Sometimes productions make all these fancy props and then sell them afterwards to rental houses to try and recoup some money.

You won't find it so much any longer, but there was a time in the early 2000s when some major Hollywood props were still available for rental at prop houses. You know how art masterpieces go missing and you wonder who has them hung on their walls to show guests? Well, there are a bunch of people who are now highly respected in Hollywood who took advantage of the rental deposits to "borrow" very famous props and then "lose" them during film productions and they can now only be seen if you know the right people ;)