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Properties
man himself is mainly occupied with the physical care of properties. He must know how to use them correctly. He must know where to find quickly in the enormous mass of his materials objects as small as a postage stamp of Jugoslavia. He must know the use of any required object, but he is not expected to know its authenticity. He gets his instructions relative to the historical accuracy of any object from the research department.
The property man is not asked to assume the responsibility of matching the right period furniture, the right draperies, or the right china. This is the work of a trained interior decorator who is a member of the varied technical staff of a modern studio property department. If flowers are to be used, the property man is not expected to superintend their arrangement or to know their symbolism, for an expert florist is available to give his advice.
Draperies are a most important subdivision of a screen property department. The interior decorator and the property man have available the services of a dozen or more men and women, experts in fabricating draperies and in the arrangement and hanging of tapestries. Should the interior decorator decide to re-cover a piece of furniture to make it more suitable for a certain pictorial ensemble, a complete upholstery shop is at hand.
Any property man working during the production of several different photoplays has thousands of different articles in his keeping in the course of a year. We have said that he need not know the exact historical "why" of each of these articles, although expert property men
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