Scott Reeder and his crew break down prop scenes in Christmas movies along with a guest appearance from Kurt Bruun, the property master of Violent Night.
I directed a Christmas movie, once. When Vanilla Ice showed up to the set I was a little surprised. I had told my producer that we needed an inexpensive professional wrapper for the gift opening scene.
Hey Scott, hope you and yours have a wonderful holiday season! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Thanks again for taking time to make and share these vids. Love 'em!
For a single monologue in my freshman theater class, my theater teacher, who was also a highly respected director at Houston’s Alley Theater, actually made me smoke a real cigarette. I was 14. And cigarettes were (and are) banned on campus. Another day for class she decided to have us practice spitting on the floor. We were all spitting when some hotshot alumni/big donor was brought in on a visit to meet the prestigious new theater teacher. I miss Beth. I had so much fun with all my theater teachers. I graduated from high school 25 years ago and the two that are still alive are still in touch. Mr. Bill saw on Facebook that I was in ICU after complications from a major thoracic surgery and he called my mom to see how I was and and wrote me the most precious letter. He’s retiring at the end of this school year. My theater teachers changed my life and I felt so cared for, and so well-mentored by these brilliant creative people, and I still do all these years later. I did the props for multiple shows, usually by myself. Sourcing props for Grapes of Wrath was hard, because they wanted so much real vintage stuff, but the play Box Office of the Damned, which features the firing of a prop gun, was the hardest. We also were working in a 60-year-old theater we’d already outgrown decades ago, and there wasn’t even a proper dressing room; the girls dressed in the dance studio and the boys only had the dank dark tiny backstage bathroom. The prop closet was a literal wedge-shaped closet. Then, a *year after I graduated*, the school built a multi-multi-million-dollar new huge Fine Arts Center and main theater with a fly system, enormous actual shop, a black box theater, AND THE INCREDIBLY STOCKED PROP ROOM OF MY DREAMS. I was so jealous.
I used to be a caffeine Junkie. So I don't know if you know about these but they're called grinds and it's the same type of thing as that coffee chew but it's in little pouches. Might be easier for some actors.
My best friend Paul recommended this video to me. We love to share great reaction channels we really enjoy. I'm 7 minutes in and hitting that subscribe button! You guys are great, and I love learning all of the cool BTS tricks that prop masters do!!
Just guessing but i think the bottle of Tide would be too tall and brightly coloured to fall out of the bags cleanly without being a visual distraction stealing the scene a bit. Especially because it would be falling from child knee hight and aganst a snow background.
True Fact: Daniel Stern almost got hit with the camera when filming the Iron drop scene. He said they attached a full size Panavision Camera to a rope and dropped it down at him. He said the rope had spring in it, and it almost hit him in the face. Yeah, that is crazy. The interview is somewhere here on youtube.
What do you know about the air rifle Kevin had in Home Alone ? As a lifelong airgunner, it's one thing that always stands out to me. I know they took a Daisy Red Ryder and modified the forearm to slide back and forth like a pump action for some reason, but I'm not sure how they might have done this or why they would do this.
@@ScottPropandRollhopefully you can find something out. I assume it's just an odd choice by a director that didn't know anything about guns or airguns...etc.
It might've been easier for a kid to manipulate a straight back-and-forth pump over the more articulated lever? It also could've just looked better on camera because everyone around the world is familiar with a pump action. Just my thoughts
@@JunkyardBashSteve Maybe, but they could have just taken the spring out of it or cut the hook off the cocking lever ( that would have been the easiest ) since it was not actually being operated. But otherwise I assume the director probably just thought it was cooler.
Years ago and before I was born, my brother had a friend over. The friend started climbing up the metal “lattice” made of rebar that was covered in ivy. At the top his foot slipped and he fell down - but, you guessed it, one of the top pieces of rebar went through his chin and out his mouth. My poor parents had to get this kid down while the ambulance was on its way. 😬 Years later, I was outside and I thought that it would be fun to climb up the metal lattice. I only climbed up 2 or 3 feet before my mother came running out, yelling at me to get down. It was at that moment that she told me the WHOLE story, and why it was dangerous to climb the lattice. My brother’s friend was fine by the way. Very sore for a while, but fine - just a small scar under his chin.
Funny how the "rubbers" segment showed the images... at a certain specific location of Scott lol. Again really enjoy these longer form content. Have a merry Christmas to you all and blessed new year.
In Home Alone, in the scene where they're following closely behind Kevin with the van, for actor safety he's actually walking backwards towards a van going in reverse, and then played backwards.
it's a good job you got into props and didn't get into acting, with your name, everything you did would be removed from history... or Reeder-acted... but seriously, love these videos
Special features on A Christmas Story DVD said they actually left the kid who played Flick on the pole for several minutes after he acted bratty. That was how they got the long shot of him waving his arms.
This episode was great - best of the series so far. I like the longer format, and the stories in this episode were good and insightful. Keep making these!!
So refreshing to see some real nice, down-to-earth guys hanging out and not trying to prove anything to anyone. All the best with your success boys!!! 👏👏👏😀
I love how much I learn from watching one of your videos. Snow joke! Merry Christmas to our favourite prop-masters (and hey, if you guys did a series shirt you could have the three of you on it, with Matt on the back)!
I just found your channel and I'm so happy I did! This would definitely be a dream job for me so I love watching your content. And the puns are top tier. :)
I can't make my mind up whether I love or loathe discovering how the 'behind the scenes' things happen. Take Harry Potter for example, or the Hobbit/LOTR movies. Knowing how they do the special effects or stunts kinda took away from the 'magic' of them. For me, at least, anyway. 🤷🤔♥️♥️♥️♥️
Another great episode, gents! I know there is at least one VFX shot in Home Alone. The BB to the crotch. I believe they said it was one 18yr old guy that did it.
Someone pointed out the leg lamp inconsistencies. When it’s first pulled from the crate. There’s no cord or lamp harp for the shade. Then you’ll notice it again when he carries the lamp to the window.
I remember that VHS were fairly pricey, so you would rent and watch things once. Home Alone was one of the first VHS sold at such a cheep price that people were able to own a movie. So that is an interesting point about continuity errors.
Love your vids! So much fun!! On the snow blanket in The Santa Clause, as a kid watching that, and having grown up in New England, I always thought it was supposed to be "frozen snow" (similar to snow that freezes on the roof of your car). Frozen snow = real slippery roof!
I rewatched Scrooged and there are so many different props and special effects in that movie. I wish @Scott Prop and Roll could do an episode on that movie. Even if it is after the holidays.
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍Merry Christmas, Prop Masters and Matt, I would like to say you guys bring a lot of laughs and joy to the show. Is it possible for a new-year show? Thank you. 🎬 📽🍿😊
Before the 80s, didn’t people regularly see movies in theaters more than once because home video wasn’t yet a things or simply just prohibitively expensive at the time?
Everyone watches A Christmas Story, Home Alone or some other sappy Christmas movie every year. My yearly Christmas movie is Violent Night! That's our family tradition!
19:46 missed opportunity for the soap to be LifeBuoy bar. And if Scott sees this and ever needs shredded beef jerky, all they do is take a very dry beef jerky and stick it in a food processor.
I just heard about violent night literally yesterday. So i had to skip that part because i want to watch it first. But i really love seeing all these movie secrets!! Keep em comin!! Edit: just finished violent night... Loved it! *In a dark, deep, grim movie trailer narrator voice* : they planned for the kill squad... But they didn't plan for *SANTA CLAUSE* Santa Claus is coming to town... And he's gonna whoop your a$$. You picked the wrong night, Christmas Eve is SANTAS NIGHT The home alone type sequence was really great though and I enjoyed the breakdown of it very much!
![АЛАУДИНОВ у Скабеевой: эти их ВСУ нас НЕ ДОГОНЯТ 😁 [Пародия]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/an0anqU4WGQ/mqdefault.jpg)
I directed a Christmas movie, once. When Vanilla Ice showed up to the set I was a little surprised. I had told my producer that we needed an inexpensive professional wrapper for the gift opening scene.
Okay, okay, that's funny af. I got no chance of a decent pun after your comment 👍🏽🤷🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
Ba-dum tiss.
@JustPS5GameplayVideos That's what makes it so great!
Bhahahahaha
🤦♂️omggggg 😂😂
I don’t know why but I can’t get enough of Scott’s content.
1 word: puns
because it's really great and wholesome and funny and informed and a couple other things ?
That flagpole gag was definitely genius. I've wondered about that for decades! Same with the Elf gum trick, genius in its simplicity.
Would love to see a crossover of Scott with the Corridor Digital guys. Would fit in with their other react series
Yes
This was a delight! You guys deserve to be as popular, if not more than the Corridor guys!!
Thanks so much!! I’m just hoping people keep watching!!
@@ScottPropandRoll Keep up with the amazing content and I certainly will!
@@ScottPropandRoll
“If you make it, we will watch”🙌
Make this channel your ‘field of dreams’❤️
@ScottPropandRoll thanks so much for the videos. Props are really interesting. Your videos are informative fun.
I could be having the worst day, but whenever Scott uploads a video it makes the bad days infinitely better.
I came for filmmaking trivia, but stayed (meaning: subscribed months ago and watched every video since) for the terrible, terrible puns!
would love for you guys to do an episode about the muppet movies
Muppets. Ugh. 😕🤷
Oh heck yeh!
finally back!
Sorry for the delay! The strike ended and things got busy! We’ll be posting another in a few days. We already filmed it.
@@ScottPropandRoll as long as they are coming i don't mind waiting!
@@Theaddekalkagreed 👍🏽 ♥️♥️♥️
Bonus fact: Die Hard was originally a pagan movie
*Yule time movie ;)
Enjoyed watching these Three Wise Guise, snowing us with smoke and Myrrhs.
Hey Scott, hope you and yours have a wonderful holiday season! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Thanks again for taking time to make and share these vids. Love 'em!
Happy holidays!
And a happy Festivus from here in Canada to you and yours
THANK YOU SCOTT! Your videos always make my day!
Glad you like them!
I just watched Elf this morning and noticed the manager's badge said Wanda and wondered what that was about 😂 thanks for the info!
Yes, Die Hard is a Christmas movie!! So glad you’re on our side Scott!
I love these reaction videos 😂 Keep them coming!
The end... with Scott 😂 🧼
Thanks!!!
For a single monologue in my freshman theater class, my theater teacher, who was also a highly respected director at Houston’s Alley Theater, actually made me smoke a real cigarette. I was 14. And cigarettes were (and are) banned on campus. Another day for class she decided to have us practice spitting on the floor. We were all spitting when some hotshot alumni/big donor was brought in on a visit to meet the prestigious new theater teacher. I miss Beth.
I had so much fun with all my theater teachers. I graduated from high school 25 years ago and the two that are still alive are still in touch. Mr. Bill saw on Facebook that I was in ICU after complications from a major thoracic surgery and he called my mom to see how I was and and wrote me the most precious letter. He’s retiring at the end of this school year. My theater teachers changed my life and I felt so cared for, and so well-mentored by these brilliant creative people, and I still do all these years later.
I did the props for multiple shows, usually by myself. Sourcing props for Grapes of Wrath was hard, because they wanted so much real vintage stuff, but the play Box Office of the Damned, which features the firing of a prop gun, was the hardest. We also were working in a 60-year-old theater we’d already outgrown decades ago, and there wasn’t even a proper dressing room; the girls dressed in the dance studio and the boys only had the dank dark tiny backstage bathroom. The prop closet was a literal wedge-shaped closet. Then, a *year after I graduated*, the school built a multi-multi-million-dollar new huge Fine Arts Center and main theater with a fly system, enormous actual shop, a black box theater, AND THE INCREDIBLY STOCKED PROP ROOM OF MY DREAMS. I was so jealous.
I used to be a caffeine Junkie. So I don't know if you know about these but they're called grinds and it's the same type of thing as that coffee chew but it's in little pouches. Might be easier for some actors.
With the amount of chew you go through, Scott you're almost a spitting image of my uncle.
When we were kids in the early 70s, my brothers hated Lifebuoy. They said it was the worst tasting of the soaps.
Love it. As an aspiring wannabe maybe someday short filmmaker, these are always inspiring.
I love THIS video format!
Best talk show since Carson
I love this series so much. Here's hoping we get another Christmas episode before Christmas day!
I love this series!
You guys must have loved that cotton candy, it went down faster than that Santa on a snow blanket!
First thanks Scott! I want to know how they do the rock scene in Vegas Vacation with the meat. 🥩
I was kid when I saw that movie and it creeped me out to watch them cook on a rock LOL
@@eileen_a_b lol yeah. I just can’t figure out what trick they did to do it.
Great video! Looking forward for new episodes!
Yay!!! You did it. I like to think you did it for me. Lol
My best friend Paul recommended this video to me. We love to share great reaction channels we really enjoy. I'm 7 minutes in and hitting that subscribe button! You guys are great, and I love learning all of the cool BTS tricks that prop masters do!!
Thanks so much for watching!!! Greatly appreciated! Happy New Year!!
Great videos
Just guessing but i think the bottle of Tide would be too tall and brightly coloured to fall out of the bags cleanly without being a visual distraction stealing the scene a bit. Especially because it would be falling from child knee hight and aganst a snow background.
Love your channel (and puns). Keep it going. Greetings from the Netherlands
Thanks, will do!
Dude I love this series. 11/10 ❤
True Fact: Daniel Stern almost got hit with the camera when filming the Iron drop scene. He said they attached a full size Panavision Camera to a rope and dropped it down at him. He said the rope had spring in it, and it almost hit him in the face. Yeah, that is crazy. The interview is somewhere here on youtube.
What do you know about the air rifle Kevin had in Home Alone ?
As a lifelong airgunner, it's one thing that always stands out to me.
I know they took a Daisy Red Ryder and modified the forearm to slide back and forth like a pump action for some reason, but I'm not sure how they might have done this or why they would do this.
I actually don’t know. But now that you mentioned it, I’m going to find out!!
@@ScottPropandRollhopefully you can find something out.
I assume it's just an odd choice by a director that didn't know anything about guns or airguns...etc.
It might've been easier for a kid to manipulate a straight back-and-forth pump over the more articulated lever? It also could've just looked better on camera because everyone around the world is familiar with a pump action. Just my thoughts
@@JunkyardBashSteve
Maybe, but they could have just taken the spring out of it or cut the hook off the cocking lever ( that would have been the easiest ) since it was not actually being operated.
But otherwise I assume the director probably just thought it was cooler.
@@TylerSnyder305yeah probably just that. Looked cooler if it appeared to be a shotgun. It's a bit punchier and more obvious to see
Been waiting for this! I enjoy the shorts but everytime one came up I was hoping it would be a full-length react that gave me the notification!
Hope you enjoyed it!
@@ScottPropandRoll coitenly did! Thanks for what you do!
Woo-hoo!!
Love you videos
Thank you 😃❤️🖖🎬
Years ago and before I was born, my brother had a friend over. The friend started climbing up the metal “lattice” made of rebar that was covered in ivy.
At the top his foot slipped and he fell down - but, you guessed it, one of the top pieces of rebar went through his chin and out his mouth.
My poor parents had to get this kid down while the ambulance was on its way. 😬
Years later, I was outside and I thought that it would be fun to climb up the metal lattice.
I only climbed up 2 or 3 feet before my mother came running out, yelling at me to get down.
It was at that moment that she told me the WHOLE story, and why it was dangerous to climb the lattice.
My brother’s friend was fine by the way. Very sore for a while, but fine - just a small scar under his chin.
Funny how the "rubbers" segment showed the images... at a certain specific location of Scott lol. Again really enjoy these longer form content. Have a merry Christmas to you all and blessed new year.
Glad you enjoyed it
In Home Alone, in the scene where they're following closely behind Kevin with the van, for actor safety he's actually walking backwards towards a van going in reverse, and then played backwards.
it's a good job you got into props and didn't get into acting, with your name, everything you did would be removed from history...
or Reeder-acted...
but seriously, love these videos
I am really, really enjoying this series Scott. I hope you don’t stop doing them. Happy holidays to you and yours sir.
Special features on A Christmas Story DVD said they actually left the kid who played Flick on the pole for several minutes after he acted bratty. That was how they got the long shot of him waving his arms.
You guys are great. Thanks for sharing your stories and letting us peak behind the curtain a little.
i love this series so much! thanks for all the holiday themed laughs and the fascinating behind the scenes trivia! ❤
Gosh these are a lot of fun. I enjoy how much you can tell you’re all friends. Thanks for taking the time to explain all these props!
This episode was great - best of the series so far. I like the longer format, and the stories in this episode were good and insightful. Keep making these!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Peter Billingsley was also in Iron Man (directed by Jon Favreau). He's the guy who says "Well I'm not Tiny Stark".
Love the video!! I’ve always wondered how they got the turkey to pop apart in Christmas Vacation. Any insider knowledge??
Another great video! Always fun to watch
I always liked on certain shows they took the easy route and they wrapped the box tops separate from the bottoms. Easy reset.
So refreshing to see some real nice, down-to-earth guys hanging out and not trying to prove anything to anyone. All the best with your success boys!!! 👏👏👏😀
If Christmas is essential to the plot, its a Christmas movie. Die Hard is a Christmas movie
Not to mention, the soundtrack is comprised of mainly Christmas songs
Die Hard is about an uprising against a militarily superior force. It’s clearly a Hanukkah movie.
The big guy was kinda quiet in this one. Would have liked to hear more of his insights.
Yeah! He’s a lot more talkative on the next one! I guess he was just overpowered by our incessant blabbing
I love how much I learn from watching one of your videos. Snow joke! Merry Christmas to our favourite prop-masters (and hey, if you guys did a series shirt you could have the three of you on it, with Matt on the back)!
Y'all should do a corridor crossover. I love this format
I really enjoyed Matt's contributions in this episode! He's truly one of the highlights of this series ❤
More vids about Die Hard pls! Love your content Scott 👍🏼
I just found your channel and I'm so happy I did! This would definitely be a dream job for me so I love watching your content. And the puns are top tier. :)
I recommend the french movie Deadly Games. That's also a mix of Kevin and Die Hard. But it from 1989.
I'm so glad that I watch Violent Night last night and then saw this video talk about it today.
Of everything in this episode, the one thing that blew me away is that Bruce Willis wore rubber feet in Die Hard.
7:40 The hand painted BB still holds up to this day.
The contributions from the guy on right are super enlightening 😂
I like catching the jiggly snow in Christmas vacation when Eddy kidnapps Clark's boss.
I can't make my mind up whether I love or loathe discovering how the 'behind the scenes' things happen. Take Harry Potter for example, or the Hobbit/LOTR movies. Knowing how they do the special effects or stunts kinda took away from the 'magic' of them. For me, at least, anyway. 🤷🤔♥️♥️♥️♥️
I’m with you. I don’t listen to actor interviews or bios either. Brings my heroes down to snarky humans 😂
You really sleighed this one. Your presents was a gift.
Another great episode, gents! I know there is at least one VFX shot in Home Alone. The BB to the crotch. I believe they said it was one 18yr old guy that did it.
Someone pointed out the leg lamp inconsistencies. When it’s first pulled from the crate. There’s no cord or lamp harp for the shade. Then you’ll notice it again when he carries the lamp to the window.
You gotta do National Lampoons Christmas Vacation! So many great props and practical effects in that movie.
😲😲😲 how could they think it was OK to give a kid actual tabacco dip. Poor kid!!
No wonder he grew up to hate Iron Man and Spiderman 🤣🤣
I remember that VHS were fairly pricey, so you would rent and watch things once. Home Alone was one of the first VHS sold at such a cheep price that people were able to own a movie. So that is an interesting point about continuity errors.
Love your vids! So much fun!! On the snow blanket in The Santa Clause, as a kid watching that, and having grown up in New England, I always thought it was supposed to be "frozen snow" (similar to snow that freezes on the roof of your car). Frozen snow = real slippery roof!
Would have been a great prank to put one cotton candy in the jar, take it out and eat it, and offer the other guys a jar of actual cotton balls
watching Trading Places IS a Christmas tradition in Italy. so you were not far off
I rewatched Scrooged and there are so many different props and special effects in that movie. I wish @Scott Prop and Roll could do an episode on that movie. Even if it is after the holidays.
I so love Scott's punnies
Awesome 👍👍
Great channel guy's. My mom put soap in my mouth to when I was little.
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍Merry Christmas, Prop Masters and Matt, I would like to say you guys bring a lot of laughs and joy to the show. Is it possible for a new-year show? Thank you.
🎬 📽🍿😊
This was so interesting and fun to watch! 😊
Before the 80s, didn’t people regularly see movies in theaters more than once because home video wasn’t yet a things or simply just prohibitively expensive at the time?
Everyone watches A Christmas Story, Home Alone or some other sappy Christmas movie every year. My yearly Christmas movie is Violent Night! That's our family tradition!
Mine is the original Black Christmas.
Loving your content, Scott.
I’m pushing 50 years old and want to be a prop guy when I grow up 😅😅
I love these react videos, please do more!
You can tell they did the scene in reverse in Home Alone, just look at the scarf. 😂
I guess the bricks 🧱 in HA2 were rubber still my favorite scene in the home alone series
The Conjuring 2 is my favourite Christmas movie of all time
19:46 missed opportunity for the soap to be LifeBuoy bar.
And if Scott sees this and ever needs shredded beef jerky, all they do is take a very dry beef jerky and stick it in a food processor.
I actually tried it with Lifebuoy but it was hard to see. It blended in with my face. So I switched it.
I just heard about violent night literally yesterday. So i had to skip that part because i want to watch it first. But i really love seeing all these movie secrets!! Keep em comin!! Edit: just finished violent night... Loved it!
*In a dark, deep, grim movie trailer narrator voice* : they planned for the kill squad... But they didn't plan for *SANTA CLAUSE*
Santa Claus is coming to town... And he's gonna whoop your a$$. You picked the wrong night, Christmas Eve is SANTAS NIGHT
The home alone type sequence was really great though and I enjoyed the breakdown of it very much!
Thanks
I would love to have been blessed enough to have gotten involved in a career like this when i had a chance.
3:02 I hadn’t seen this video - hilarious!!
16:30 He kept his eye on the ball
I love these. Keep em comen
Would love to see you on the Corridor Crew couch!
Merry christmas from Vienna/Austria....I wish i could get an autograph from you......Ho ho ho...🥰
I love this videos