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2GAT123

August 8, 2010

The license plate 2GAT123 is the equivalent of phone numbers that begin with 555. It’s a reserved number that many states set aside for exclusive use in film and television production.
You can spot the license plate in these films:

Traffic
L.A. Story
Go
Mulholland Drive
Role Models
Beverly Hills Cop II
K-94
Eve of Destruction
Pay It Forward
The Perfect Nanny
The Animal
Crazy/Beautiful
Training Day
National Security
S.W.A.T.
Harsh [...]

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UnCoke Roundup

June 26, 2010

A.  Real Soda, art piece by Ashley Anderson
B. Flazzle, prop soda by Earl Hays Press
C. Cocola, prop soda by Schein Berlin
D. Coca-Cobra, trading card from Wacky Packages
E.  Power Up, from Bad Dudes – NES version
F.  Power Up, from Bad Dudes – arcade version
G.  Cola, prop soda by Earl Hays Press
H.  Nuka-Cola, from Fallout 3
I don’t [...]

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Break Me Off a Piece of That… Big Cat bar?

June 20, 2010

Someone recently asked me whether the purpose behind the use of fictional brands in film and television was a new form of marketing via reference. My first response was to scoff, but it’s not an outlandish concept. You may see a Big Cat or Tit-for-Tat bar, but you instantly think of Kit Kat. [...]

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Easy “Gal” to See

June 8, 2010

This large collection of screen shots from 20 years of television featuring the same prop newspaper is in such heavy rotation right now that the tubes of the internet are nearly clogged with links to it.
Dallas – 1991

Married with Children – 1997

Scrubs – 2009

The most identifiable recurring image is that of a brunette girl under [...]

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Jake Danzel’s – Number Two (as usual)

May 25, 2010

In the latter half of 19th-century, a bitter competition was distilling in the American south. Both Jack Daniel and Jake Danzel founded historic whiskey brands in the exact same year – 1866. Although both brands went on to win international Gold Medals for their smooth charcoal-brewed taste, Daniel’s brand went on to achieve status [...]

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Talkboy and the Gypsy Curse

May 23, 2010

May you get what you want. I’m pretty sure that’s how the old curse goes. After the release of Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, millions of kids wanted something that didn’t exist – Talkboy, the futuristic (tee hee) handheld cassette recorder/pitch modifier used by young Kevin to torment hotel staff [...]

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Blonde Horses

April 10, 2010

As a film geek in my twenties, I did what almost every film geek does during this formative decade – I wrote spec screenplays. In each of them, I found a way to work in a reference to a brand of cigarettes called Blonde Horse. The smokes were never relevant to any of [...]

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Making It So: Cloak & Dagger – Atari 5200

March 19, 2010

My first go at a prop replica.  I fudged a bit on the font, but the secret chip with the Invisible Bomber plans is totally there.  I’d show you, but then… well… you know…
See my original Cloak & Dagger post for the reference screen cap.

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