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Properties
studio they enter, but to enter a studio originally their greatest recommendation is their previous experience in their specialized line.
The unit property man assigned to secure, watch, and handle the properties for each separate production company is the one technician in a property department who is unique to a studio. Any studio property man could step on the stage of a theatre and handle the job of a theatre prop man, but the theatre prop man would find it difficult to enter a studio and take over the duties of his cinema brother.
The cleverness of a property man depends so much on experience that he develops chiefly by the apprentice method. Boys enter studio propertv departments about the age of sixteen or slightly older. For some years they move, dust, wipe, and polish heavy furniture. When their familiarity with the hundreds of thousands of objects with which they are surrounded is sufficient, they go on a production set as assistant property man.
The next step upwards for a clever, intelligent property man is the position of assistant director. This is a logical advance, for no one else in a production company, except the property man, is so thoroughly trained for effective organization of time and effort. Some of the most capable modern-day assistant directors received their advancement by way of the property department. It is a long trail to film success, but it is sure.
The work of the property man indicates how thoroughly Hollywood is related to the countless industries of the world.
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