For Hire
Exhibition and props hire & sales
For many years we have specialised in the hire and sale of vintage technology for Theatre, TV and Film production, as well as for exhibitions, art installations and advertising purposes. We have in stock practical and non-prac. domestic radios, TVs, gramophones and other items that are suitable for props. We can also source them from a wide range of contacts, or even make specialist props in our own workshop. Items can be hired or bought depending on production requirements.
If you are a props buyer looking for something weird and wonderful, or just an everyday item that is accurately in period, contact us. We expect the unexpected, (although the impossible may take a little longer!)
We can supply or make many types of technical props for film & TV, stage and exhibition purposes.
Due to our experience in the broadcast TV industry, we understand about tight deadlines and budgets, the (ocassionally conflicting!) demands of directors and designers, and health & safety considerations.
We can also provide broadcast quality 'period' tube camera pictures for production use, providing all technical equipment and liasing with production, design or technical facilities as required. Need a 1980s TV news camera kit for a dramatic reconstruction? Working- with playback facilities? How about the ability to put the footage from original tape onto DVD for editing? No problem!
There are some glaring examples of anachronistic technical props in many prestigious period dramas. We know most viewers won't notice, and props buyers can't know everything, but why get it wrong when we can help you get it right, and make your life easier?
Our experience includes:
- Practical TV sets for 'Life on Mars' (Series 1 and 2) (Kudos productions).
- Radio and TV sets for the visitor area exhibition in BBC Scotland's award winning Prince's Dock Television Centre.
- Radios and TVs for 'The Royal' (Yorkshire TV).
- TVs for Docu-Drama 'To Kidnap a Princess' (Granada TV).
- TV for 'The Grimleys' (Granada TV).
- Radios and record player for 'Hairspray' UK tour 2010.
- Gramophones for 'The Forsyte Saga' (Granada TV).
- Radios and TVs for 'This Morning' (Granada TV).
- Radios for display in the refurbished BBC office suites at Broadcasting House.
- 1930s radios for the National Theatre.
- 1940s wire recorder for a touring production of 'Death of a Salesman'.
- Practical vintage TV sets with playback facilities and operator for BBC3 drama series "Being Human".
- Supply and operation of 1970s/80s broadcast TV cameras (for authentic period picture characteristics) for a McDonalds TV commercial.
- A 1970s portable radio for a TV drama, which required three identical models- one practical, one to be smashed up in shot and another in reserve in case the stunt had to be repeated.
- A radio or TV set from each decade since the 1920s for a BBC promotional exhibition in Tokyo.
- A 1930s radio containing an operational remote control CD player for the gift shop at Blenheim Palace.
- 10 vintage televisions for an Art installation.
- A number of 1960s radios, TVs tape recorders and record players for a recreation of the music shop owned by Brian Epstein's father for a film on the Beatles.
- A period television set showing footage of the 80s miner's strike for a museum.
- 1960s TV cameras for a recreation of a TV studio for a music-based drama for S4C.
- All the equipment for a scene outside a courtroom involving a 1980s BBC news crew, for a film.
- Reel-to-Reel tape recorders for recording spiritual voices and 6 practical TVs for ' Most Haunted Live'. (Living TV.)
- 1950s TV sets for retail displays in Selfridges department store.
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Ghost Annie (Lenora Crichlow) sees her mother on an old TV set- we provided playback of the pre-recorded footage onto the screen of a 1970s TV, the picture synchronised with the action when the set-top aerial is moved. |
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Pictures used in a TV commercial, recorded from a 1980s tube camera to give an authentic 'archive' look to the shots used as part of a montage. We supplied and operated the camera and equipment for a London studio. |
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Contact us to see if we can solve your problem - it might be quicker (and cheaper) than you think.
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