Great Idea for a new Golden Era Prop...What do you think?

[Julius Xavier]

What about all the various paper work and travel docs. from the Great Escape? That's one great movie I don't think we talk about enough in the Prop section... there are some real good possiablities within this movie.



-Doc

 

[MDFrench]

Hmm... Interesting.

Travel permits.
Train tickets.
Identity cards.
Wermacht and Luftwaffe Identity Cards (forged of course)
Other "props" could include:

The trouser bags to dispense the dirt.
A 35mm camera with a focal plane shutter. That's FOCAL plane shutter.
Henley's pocket knife.
Hilts' baseball glove (by the way, is he wearing Aldens in that movie, or is it just me?)
Those makeshift Wire cutters
Maybe even Sedgwick's air pump and tunnel carts with spades "clink clink!"

Just some ideas.
Mike

 

[Mycroft]

How about the guard's pickpocked walet, the wire cutters I think can be made from 2 strips of midum thick steel or iron, and then cut to shape. Te shape is the 2 strips connecd by a rivet (loose) or bolt, then for the cutting part cut out a half circule from the near end on each side. Here's pictures of the process
1. Two strips of steel or iron (8 inches long each)


2. Trace a nickel around the 2 bars side by side.


3. Cut the Blades, use a saw to cut out the half circles

4. Then drill a hole 2 inches away from the hole in each bar

5. Connect the 2 bars with a semi-loose bolt and nut

6. Then you are done, though they don’t work at all

 

[Julius Xavier]

Great Escape Props

Let's keep thinking of ideas... I can do research and maybe we can make this a group project among the members of the forum...like the escape itself. Everyone can help alittle bit with what thet can.



How Bout it?

-Doc

 

[Mycroft]

I am in.

I happen to be a regualr "scrunger" and "Macgiver." I make stuff from not to much.

 

[Zepp]

More ideas for Great Escape props:

Danny's pick

Blythe's tinware tea set

The fat lamps used in the tunnel

The escape records of individual prisoners from the von Luger/Ramsey scene near the film's start

Bird sketches from Blythe's "art classes"

A copy of the Volkischer Beobachter that Ashley-Pitt was reading on the train

The ring of keys that Hilts lifts from (and returns to) to the cooler guard

A dirty, well-scuffed, bounced-off-the-concrete-wall-several-thousand-times baseball.

Easiest of all: a straight pin.

 

[Mycroft]

A big prop may be the desks from the drawing class. Also, the passports and camera "2.5 Phocalplain shutter".

 

[Forrestal]

How about the Still?.....I want the Still...
Regards,
Forrestal