# Same prop appearing in films decades apart? ("An American Romance" and "2001")
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**Created:** [June 7, 2012, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-prop-appearing-in-films-decades-apart-an-american-romance-and-2001/624437 "2012-06-07T22:19:06Z")
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### Author:  [@Ashley\_Pomeroy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashley_Pomeroy)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2012, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-prop-appearing-in-films-decades-apart-an-american-romance-and-2001/624437/21 "2012-06-09T19:03:25Z")
> [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](#):
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> it’s possible that the “bubble” would protrude from the bottom of the fuselage, because at a key point in the sequence, it appeared that the final assembly is attached at the top.
According to the synopsis I’ve just read, they were assembling B-17s, which suggests to me that you’re describing [the ball turret](http://www.kaimanaaviation.com/AV3-B-17%20Ball%20Turret.jpg) that hung beneath the fuselage. The two .50 machine guns [look a bit like](http://www.learnnc.org/lp/multimedia/3402) the EVA pod’s gripper arms and the central window is a similar shape. And they both killed people!
The pod design also turns up in _Star Wars: The Phantom Menace_, as kind of background joke, although it’s probably not the same physical prop (might be from _2010_, though):
> **[EVA Pod](https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/EVA_Pod)**
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> The EVA Pod\[1\] was a type of vehicle present in the junkyard behind Watto's Shop in Mos Espa on Tatooine in 32 BBY.\[2\] It had previously been a repair and maintenance vehicle pod of unknown origin.\[1\] The EVA Pod is actually a replica of a famous...
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### Author:  [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2012, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-prop-appearing-in-films-decades-apart-an-american-romance-and-2001/624437/22 "2012-06-09T19:16:53Z")
Here’s a website dedicated to [recycled TV & movie costumes](http://www.recycledmoviecostumes.com/). Some I think could just be made with the same patterns, others look absolutely the same.
Sets resurface all the time as well. If you watch the Atlanta scenes of _Gone With the Wind_ then watch various episodes of _Bonanza_, _The Andy Griffith Show_, the “City on the Edge of Forever” episode of _Star Trek_, and many other movies and shows you’ll notice the same buildings (particularly the big church and the hotel [two of the most distinctive]) in all of them.
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### Author:  [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2012, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-prop-appearing-in-films-decades-apart-an-american-romance-and-2001/624437/23 "2012-06-09T19:21:51Z")
In the burning of Altlanta scene in _Gone With the Wind_, the director used left over wooden sets in the MGM lot, including the giant wooden gates from Skull Island in _King Kong_. You can see the gate collapsing at 3:10 [here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnEZrV_WT44).
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2012, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-prop-appearing-in-films-decades-apart-an-american-romance-and-2001/624437/24 "2012-06-09T22:54:48Z")
> [@pravnik](#):
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> In the burning of Altlanta scene in _Gone With the Wind_, the director used left over wooden sets in the MGM lot, including the giant wooden gates from Skull Island in _King Kong_. You can see the gate collapsing at 3:10 [here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnEZrV_WT44).
Did they not also burn the set from _The Thief of Baghdad_?
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2012, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-prop-appearing-in-films-decades-apart-an-american-romance-and-2001/624437/25 "2012-06-09T23:44:03Z")
When they made the _Charlie’s Angels_ movie in 2000, they located and used the original telephone speaker from the seventies television series.
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### Author:  [@Spiny\_Norman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiny_Norman)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2012, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-prop-appearing-in-films-decades-apart-an-american-romance-and-2001/624437/26 "2012-06-10T00:56:10Z")
The warehouse scene in Indiana Jones IV has a few shout-outs to classical movie props, including Moses’ staff from “The ten commandments”.
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