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vathek Posts: 966 |
posted 02-08-2010 02:41 PM
  
[01-2779] This is from a Hammer film called something to the effect of "Curse of the Werewolf". Hammer was on the low budget side but did launch the careers of Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. In this scene the table is a large U shape with large silver everywhere. None of the pieces particularly look English. I just wonder where they got them. IP: Logged |
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jersey Posts: 1203 |
posted 02-08-2010 06:13 PM
Hi Vathek! My guess is the ever present Prop Department! Jersey IP: Logged |
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Ulysses Dietz Moderator Posts: 1265 |
posted 02-09-2010 02:18 PM
None of them look 18th century either--and for that matter, the clothes are really bad. Love those Hammer films. IP: Logged |
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vathek Posts: 966 |
posted 02-09-2010 02:19 PM
Would guess they're late 19c continental, perhaps Hanau. Maybe they could be had cheaply in the sixties. IP: Logged |
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agleopar Posts: 850 |
posted 02-09-2010 02:52 PM
Great silver plate? IP: Logged |
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Dale Posts: 2132 |
posted 02-09-2010 06:40 PM
PBS recently ran a three part based on Jane Austen's Emma which featured a lot of silver being used for tea. They even included a formal dinner with huge soup spoons. The silver all looked very authenticly late Georgian. IP: Logged |
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Scott Martin Forum Master Posts: 11520 |
posted 11-12-2016 10:55 AM
Johnny Tremain is a 1957 film in which the first 15 minutes takes place in a silversmith shop. Watch the first 15 minutes or watch the full feature quote: IP: Logged |
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June Martin Forum Master Posts: 1326 |
posted 11-12-2016 01:35 PM
As to where the movie silver comes from, it reminds me of a dear friend that had a shop in our neighborhood. It was packed to the gills with everything and he often provided silver, furniture etc to production companies. Got us in to see many a wonderful play. IP: Logged |
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middletom Posts: 467 |
posted 11-15-2016 10:02 PM
Several years ago I briefly knew a man who did repairs for Replacements Limited. He was self taught and told me that when he lived in Arizona, he got into repairing items for film companies. He said the prop people for movies had no appreciation for the fine things they often had at their disposal. He told me of them bringing a Tiffany lamp shade to him for repairs. It was an original Tiffany shade and the prop people treated it as though it might have been a piece of plastic from Wal-Mart. No understanding of the character and specialness of items. I recall reading in an antique car magazine many years ago about a film company doing a comedy film with Don Knotts and Tim Conway. The film makers wanted a mid-thirties Rolls Royce for the film and the owner of the particular car they wanted said they could rent it from him but they insisted on buying it and made an offer he couldn't refuse. Then in making the film the film people ran the car off a pier into a lake, destroying it. To make a long story short, the "silver" in this Hammer film might be real or just junk, but who knows how it is treated by those making the film. Geoff Blake IP: Logged |
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Scott Martin Forum Master Posts: 11520 |
posted 11-25-2016 08:53 AM
Harold and Maude (1971) IP: Logged |
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Polly Posts: 1970 |
posted 12-09-2016 10:06 PM
Anyone know whether Esther Forbes, the author of the book JOHNNY TREMAIN, on which the movie was based, was descended from the famous Forbes family of silversmiths? The book made a big impression on me when I read it as a child. Especially the part where Paul Revere explains to Johnny about how you can't just make the ornamental details on the bigger object bigger, you have to make them more sensitively proportioned. IP: Logged |
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wev Moderator Posts: 4121 |
posted 12-10-2016 08:46 AM
No, different Forbes family line, at least back to the early 1600's. IP: Logged |
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