If you contacted SPAM for a historical label for any reason in the past, they'd not only send you whatever era you want, they'll wrap a couple of empty tins in those labels. They LOVED having the brand in a film. Maybe they still do? But there are brands of edible products you can buy with non-brand labels. The sitcom 'Community' even made light of this, with their "Lets" brand chips. You can buy these from the prop house which makes them. Community made a fake ad for that brand and mentioned it in a few episodes
Besides what he said about being in trouble and owing fees to use a product, they also want to _get_ money for product placement. They won't casually use something without investigating whether they can get a product placement fee.
@@JohnDlugosz You can also get into trouble when the producers or network has a relationship with a competing brand. This means everything needs to be obscured or produced by the art department.
I have also been a designer, and one who has worked on productions. I’ve was once responsible for “Greeking” an entire pharmacy, that is making fake Rx labels. Something that’s bothering me in these series of videos is that Adam doesn’t mention that it’s almost always the job of an art department to dress the background. Usually, the prop masters are making “hero” objects (items that lead actors are interacting with).
I love this so much. As an ex graphic designer, I used to design "generic" packaging for commercials for a director friend of mine back in the day. This would have been a dream job for me!
I want Adam to do one day builds from X Files. Like the badges, folders or the files themselves. He's noticing stuff that totally flies under the radar and I love that.
as a compositor who has had to clean up stuff that was actual branded products before, those cleared products are a true blessing when we encounter them :D major thanks to yall, and thanks adam for showing all of us fantastic props content :D
I am awe struck by these props and the level of detail that the graphic designers go to just to pull off a convincing fake. I will be watching for these props in the next show/movie I see. Awesome content - thanks for sharing.
Llama brand cigarettes are featured in "The Shadow" from 1994, including an excellent miniature of a billboard with the slogan "I'd climb a mountain for a llama!" instead of "I'd cross a desert for a camel!"
you should watch "the boys" with this in mind. i was rewatching it recently and holy. the entire WORLD is filled and remarketed with fake movies, brands, shows, etc for the superheroes in the show. its absolutely insane. so much random stuff is just rebranded to fit this superhero filled world thats set in our own world.
As a former prop collector and prop maker, it's one of the things I've recreated myself. Like Adam, because of the X-Files and while I've seen it several times since then, I also never knew it went that far back in movie/TV history.
I love these sorts of videos where Adam gets to geek out one professional to another. This visit, the Muppet stuff, various others where he's exploring something new to him but has worked closely enough to that space that he can appreciate the challenges once they're pointed out.
I don't live in downtown LA, so it's always weird to see a pink doughnut box. I've legitimately never seen a doughnut box that color in my entire life, outside of Hollywood produced media.
always love this kind of stuff because it creates such an open opportunity to have a little fun, even if it's unlikely anyone beyond the cast and crew will ever see it.
For about a week I've been asking myself what job I was aiming for when studying graphic design for television before life got in the way. Thank you adam
I went to the Harry Potter experience outside of London, and they have an entire wall showing all of the items that the graphics department made, including dozens and dozens of wizard-specific products (Cheeri-Owls, anyone?). It was such fun and really highlights the amazing amount of dedication that these artists have to their work.
Adam my guy! What another great wonder of an exhibit. So awesome to have shared this with us. The Martin show silent chip bags was a new one for me. Great stuff!
It's mind boggling just how well made these are for something that only shows up in the background. I would always assume 90% of them were way lazier with lots of Lorem Ipsum and what not, but this is incredible and so nice to see how much love goes into this.
Since these are intended to be general use props for countless film and television productions, they can't assume they will always be in the background.
Thanks!! I love every minute of these Earl Hayes Press videos! After the first one I went straight off and subscribed to PropsToHistory. I love the ephemera of films, the sheer effort of creating graphic art that mimics our own world, are we going to get any interviews with Earl Hayes graphic designers?? That would be amazing.
Very cool! I've always loved the work that goes into designing the looks of the fake/cleared props. How close they can get to the real items they are referencing without infringing copyright always makes me smile -- thanks for showcasing some of this.
often. in the UK , a trade mark will be in a class (eg Wedgewood for ceramics. in theory someone could create wedgewood (name but not logo style) underpants)
Interesting how some companies will pay show and movie makers to show their brand (product placement) while others will take them to court over showing their brands without paying royalties 😂
No, he was wrong about that. A movie can’t realistically be sued for showing real products in their film. Trademark law only prevents against competing products using your logo to trick customers into buying it. For 99% of use a company couldn’t do anything about their product being in a film. There are only a handful of scenarios where a company could sue. If you defame a product, like say the main character eats a dorito and says “these taste bad.” You could find yourself in a lawsuit although that isn’t guaranteed for doritos to win because of context, if maybe they were saying that because it was an expired bag, it would be fine. If it was part of a joke, you also wouldn’t really have an issue because of parody law. A good example is the movie Idiocracy. Where they not only used real brand names but they changed their slogans and names to be explicit. So basically the company would have to be able to prove that your film damaged the brand. It’d have to be like a corona virus situation where they have hard proof of sales declining before and after the event. The main reason movies/tvshows clear products is because they don’t want to upset the brands that they advertise with. Brands might not want to work with you if they see your content promoting other products for free. Typically shows that don’t rely on advertising like HBO, Netflix, and Apple tend to use real products.
I think its a lot whit how its used. like example from some older bond movies the brand of phone used switches depending on what the phone is used for like the phone used by bond in hero mode was one brand. but when the bad guy IED maker (Improvised explosive device) need to have a receiver for his/her bomb use a phone (just look at the phone brand).
I think the real problem would be when a brand is paying for product placement. You can't have any other real brands visible or you would dilute the effectiveness and would be sued for breach of contract.
@@paulp4201 The fun one in the UK 2nd Series onwards of The Professionals and then "The Sweeney" , the Good guys got cars from Ford free of charge. Ford also provided the cars for the badies - mostly British Leyland makes
It's product placement. I remember when I was a teen the WB/CW was the worst. Not only would they use real products, but the camera would linger on a product label for way to long.
Absolutely a great segment. Many thanks. When I was in my teens back in 1971 I was doing props for live theatre productions in Australia. It was exhausting work finding props and set dressings that weren't actually the real thing. This segment brought back some memories.
Another cool video of this incredible place! I paused to read the "Cap'n Salty" story, and wow! It actually taught me something true about history! They accidentally say "refused" when it should be "accepted", but otherwise it turns out the story it tells about glass bottom tankards is real! I could literally spend days in there just reading all this fun flavor text we never get to see up close. The details are the best part. Thanks for the great content Tested!
The extreme example of this is in Repo Man, where they used the "generic" label products for everything. That particular style of generic label with the blue text on white was an actual thing around 1980 or so, it just didn't go anywhere. Instead, big store chains came up with their own private label brands that would blend in better on the shelf. I never actually saw them in stores, but as a kid I had seen pictures of them in a magazine or on a TV news show, so I recognized them when I saw the movie. Doing a whole store with nothing but those generic labels was a brilliant idea, and they took it farther with silly labels like "drink" or "meat".
It's a marketing nightmare to walk into a store with nothing but row after row of white boxes. The "store brand" needs to be as recognizable at a distance as the name brands.
I'm an avid fan of tv series Supernatural, and I remember the time when the prop designers said they're really enjoyed creating all the fake motel rooms the characters went to and the unique fake beer bottles' title they designed in every episodes. Great times ^^
Oh my god, this is the dream job I never even knew I wanted! I do games development, and one of my favorite tasks is making fake little product props to scatter around the game world. Being able to do it for real would be absolutely amazing!
My travel trailer has about 18 stickers for fake national parks. I have has people look at them and claim they have been to a certain park. My favorite is Lacus Timoris National Park, the first national park on the moon.
Peter: "Boy, I feel like I haven't eaten in a week. Hey, if we pass a McDaniel's or a Burger Queen, let's hop out." Quagmire: "Oh, that's right, we're on television." Joe: "Oh, I'd love a flame-broiled Bopper!"
I was in an art exhibit that was a fake shop that has the branding switched on various products. Eg it had pedigree chum (dog food) toothpaste with Colgate branding. It was weirdly unsettling, like being in a parallel world.
That reminded me of a Reddit post I saw a while back where it was like that but with branding switched between Heinz ketchup and Elmer's school glue, though just the text was switched.
I was a Prop PA for 3 years back in the day. Earl Hays was always my favorite prop house to shop and pick up printed props. Fun fact: the current owner of Earl Hays is the grandson, I wanna say he’s in his 20’s. Fascinating place.
My favorite thing about cleared products is that they reduce the amount of product placement in films. I freaking DESPISE product placement, as I do ads of any type.
This is very interesting, through a lot of different perspectives: cinephile, nerd, graphic designer, maker, joker, prankster, consumer! Thanks for sharing, Adam and Tested's crew and @PropsToHistory whose channel I'll be checking out next!
"So the Foley guy doesn't hate you." Wonderful. A friend has been a Foley editor for a long time and she would have let out a Wilhelm Scream if they used crinkly bags for chips.
Like Adam, I know the Morley cigarettes from X-Files, but was stunned to see an old style green soft pack of them appear in the original Mission: Impossible. So cool that they've been around so long!
Adam Savage is a true genius. Not afraid to ask questions or be unaware of something, just fascinated and eager to learn everything he can. We should all be more like Adam
I remember seeing Morley cigarettes in the original Twilight Zone episodes from the 60s. Also, I remember the first time I noticed that propmasters did this. It was Heizler beer in My Name is Earl. Great episode.
I love this! I recreated the label for Tankstar Chicken from The Expanse very accurately in Illustrator but I can't find the exact meat can they used on the show to put it on. I found the Chinese company who will sell me 100,000 of them, but I only need one. Ideally, it wouldn't be filled with meat since I'd love to make mine "openable" so I can keep something in it like my personal Protomolecule sample or Amos's Ani Mask pin.
I find it amazing that there's someone out there with a problem like "I can't buy this exact model of can without buying 100,000 of them." That sounds like a very unique problem to have.
LOL The tv shows that I seen with REAL products in their stores was CHUCK and SUPERSTORE. The difference was instead of one company's product in one part the isle like normal stores they mixed products.
Yes, love learning about functional movie props! I remember when Scott Reeder (ScottPropandRoll) did a video on Vinyl bags and it (silently) shook me to my core. The dad jokes didn't help either
@@espalier He's a prop master that is based in Texas (he's currently working on the new Walker, Texas Ranger). If I understood his video right he "invented" silent pool balls. As said above his channel's name is ScottPropandRoll and brace yourself for the dad jokes...
I had heard about these off brands for years, this was fun to see them. Especially since some of them have been cited as the links connecting the Tommy Westphal Universe.
Yeah, that is awesome... to have so many variations that look like a real varieties of products for things like a store. "SMEAT" and Llamas in place of Camels. :) And you usually don't have time to read the actual label when watching a show or movie. So, the props are very convincing. This is a talent I never thought of, but kudos to the development team and designers to make these in such great detail. 😁
Would be so fun to be a designer for one of these companies. Surprised they didn't get a headshot of Adam to put on the cover of the next Mud Magazine. So many fun easter eggs to be had. My party piece would be the Lorem Ipsum newspaper.
Those 2L soda bottles look no different than certain eras of the generic store brands. Though I guess generic store brands are kind of like a cleared product for the actual retail world. I am impressed they even go to the detail of tax stamps on a pack of smokes.
Scott Prop and Roll here on UA-cam is a well seasoned propmaster and master of the dad joke. He loves trying to figure out how certain scenes from TV and movies was done and demonstrates it for us. He is hilarious and really knows his stuff
I would really enjoy seeing a collaboration with Scott Prop and Roll; he’s done a number of videos on silent bags, greeked products, cleared brands and all sorts of cool stuff.
This reminds me of the old Jack Finney short story, "The Coin Collector," where a guy one day finds a Woodrow Wilson dime in his change; and when he accidentally spends it, he finds himself in the alternate timeline where the coin originated. In this alternate world, many of the well-known products of our world either have different names (but similar logos), or don't exist at all, because some other brand out-competed them. I like to think that somewhere in the multiverse, Adam and Michael's counterparts are even now laughing about absurd fake product names like Coke and Marlboro and Spam.
I've never quite understood this issue of branded products in movies. Movie studios usually charge for product placement, so why would a company complain about seeing their product in a movie for free?? I could see how they might be upset if the movie is specifically using their product in a negative way, but not when it's just in the background somewhere.
Now, think about shows like "Sliders," from the early '90s, or any film that deals with alternate universes that has to have the "real" fake brands, and then has "alternate universe" versions that are close, but off in some way.
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Earl Hayes was a very different bloke.
❤ thank you again for helping tell the story of this amazing place
More please.
Do you have heisler beer
absolutely fascinating stuff. please keep these videos coming!
All these "just off" names and logos remind me of walking thru the dollar store.
I felt like I was in the Chinese market in Russia shopping for a pair of Adidos and a pack of Duradell batteries.
A large UK chain, similar premise, had the buying power to purchase brand name products, in subtly reduced sizes... so it looked cheaper 😂
Aldi's
Budget flea market
Mountain lighting was the shit though ngl
If you contacted SPAM for a historical label for any reason in the past, they'd not only send you whatever era you want, they'll wrap a couple of empty tins in those labels. They LOVED having the brand in a film. Maybe they still do? But there are brands of edible products you can buy with non-brand labels. The sitcom 'Community' even made light of this, with their "Lets" brand chips. You can buy these from the prop house which makes them. Community made a fake ad for that brand and mentioned it in a few episodes
Besides what he said about being in trouble and owing fees to use a product, they also want to _get_ money for product placement. They won't casually use something without investigating whether they can get a product placement fee.
@@JohnDlugosz You can also get into trouble when the producers or network has a relationship with a competing brand. This means everything needs to be obscured or produced by the art department.
I wonder if SMEAT is causing a dip in the demand for SPAM props.
@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 I wonder if Monty Python doing an entire skit on their product increased the demand for those props in the first place 😂
"Get your damn hands off my Lets!"
I've been a graphic designer professionally for about 20 years now, and this filled me with abosolute joy. Incredible work from that team.
I have also been a designer, and one who has worked on productions. I’ve was once responsible for “Greeking” an entire pharmacy, that is making fake Rx labels.
Something that’s bothering me in these series of videos is that Adam doesn’t mention that it’s almost always the job of an art department to dress the background. Usually, the prop masters are making “hero” objects (items that lead actors are interacting with).
What is your obsession with fake items. Are you afraid of the truth?
I love this so much. As an ex graphic designer, I used to design "generic" packaging for commercials for a director friend of mine back in the day. This would have been a dream job for me!
I want Adam to do one day builds from X Files. Like the badges, folders or the files themselves. He's noticing stuff that totally flies under the radar and I love that.
as a compositor who has had to clean up stuff that was actual branded products before, those cleared products are a true blessing when we encounter them :D major thanks to yall, and thanks adam for showing all of us fantastic props content :D
You could easily do a video a week in this place and not run out of new stuff to show for YEARS. And I would be here for all of it, this is amazing.
I am awe struck by these props and the level of detail that the graphic designers go to just to pull off a convincing fake. I will be watching for these props in the next show/movie I see. Awesome content - thanks for sharing.
Llama brand cigarettes are featured in "The Shadow" from 1994, including an excellent miniature of a billboard with the slogan "I'd climb a mountain for a llama!" instead of "I'd cross a desert for a camel!"
Late reply, but the whole "Morley" vs "Llama" cigarettes thing was used in an episode of NCIS as well.
The comedic timing on "they'll put any moron on these magazines" is perfect.
I would love to see Adam experience Meow Wolfs Omega Mart in Las Vegas, or any of the other Meow Wolf experiences.
Oh, he loves Meow Wolf! He’s been.
@@testedI'm extremely happy that one recently opened up 30 minutes from where I live!
@@tested Then, please, where's the video? 😁
I have a fascination with fake brands. I always found it funny in Mythbusters when they made everything Mythbusters brand
Rhett and Link had to been fans because now they have the Mythical Kitchen.
@@williammitchell4417 ah the Mythical brand came from the Mythical Beast colouring book they did as children, it has nothing to do with Mythbusters.
you should watch "the boys" with this in mind. i was rewatching it recently and holy. the entire WORLD is filled and remarketed with fake movies, brands, shows, etc for the superheroes in the show. its absolutely insane. so much random stuff is just rebranded to fit this superhero filled world thats set in our own world.
To me, seeing a package of "Morleys" just sends those nostalgia chills down my back. Great video. Thank you.
As a former prop collector and prop maker, it's one of the things I've recreated myself. Like Adam, because of the X-Files and while I've seen it several times since then, I also never knew it went that far back in movie/TV history.
I love these sorts of videos where Adam gets to geek out one professional to another. This visit, the Muppet stuff, various others where he's exploring something new to him but has worked closely enough to that space that he can appreciate the challenges once they're pointed out.
I don't live in downtown LA, so it's always weird to see a pink doughnut box.
I've legitimately never seen a doughnut box that color in my entire life, outside of Hollywood produced media.
I'll never look at a movie the same way again. I'm always going to be looking for these prop pieces now!
always love this kind of stuff because it creates such an open opportunity to have a little fun, even if it's unlikely anyone beyond the cast and crew will ever see it.
I love the idea of media including tiny jokes hidden in plain sight.
Miniature wizards also hide jokes in their work all the time and I love it.
For about a week I've been asking myself what job I was aiming for when studying graphic design for television before life got in the way. Thank you adam
Do it. Make us amazingly hilarious fake brands!!
I went to the Harry Potter experience outside of London, and they have an entire wall showing all of the items that the graphics department made, including dozens and dozens of wizard-specific products (Cheeri-Owls, anyone?). It was such fun and really highlights the amazing amount of dedication that these artists have to their work.
Adam my guy! What another great wonder of an exhibit. So awesome to have shared this with us. The Martin show silent chip bags was a new one for me. Great stuff!
It's mind boggling just how well made these are for something that only shows up in the background. I would always assume 90% of them were way lazier with lots of Lorem Ipsum and what not, but this is incredible and so nice to see how much love goes into this.
Since these are intended to be general use props for countless film and television productions, they can't assume they will always be in the background.
Thanks!! I love every minute of these Earl Hayes Press videos! After the first one I went straight off and subscribed to PropsToHistory.
I love the ephemera of films, the sheer effort of creating graphic art that mimics our own world, are we going to get any interviews with Earl Hayes graphic designers??
That would be amazing.
Very cool! I've always loved the work that goes into designing the looks of the fake/cleared props. How close they can get to the real items they are referencing without infringing copyright always makes me smile -- thanks for showcasing some of this.
often. in the UK , a trade mark will be in a class (eg Wedgewood for ceramics. in theory someone could create wedgewood (name but not logo style) underpants)
@@highpath4776ASDA had a line of "microsoft" underwear.
Interesting how some companies will pay show and movie makers to show their brand (product placement) while others will take them to court over showing their brands without paying royalties 😂
No, he was wrong about that. A movie can’t realistically be sued for showing real products in their film. Trademark law only prevents against competing products using your logo to trick customers into buying it.
For 99% of use a company couldn’t do anything about their product being in a film. There are only a handful of scenarios where a company could sue. If you defame a product, like say the main character eats a dorito and says “these taste bad.” You could find yourself in a lawsuit although that isn’t guaranteed for doritos to win because of context, if maybe they were saying that because it was an expired bag, it would be fine. If it was part of a joke, you also wouldn’t really have an issue because of parody law.
A good example is the movie Idiocracy. Where they not only used real brand names but they changed their slogans and names to be explicit.
So basically the company would have to be able to prove that your film damaged the brand. It’d have to be like a corona virus situation where they have hard proof of sales declining before and after the event.
The main reason movies/tvshows clear products is because they don’t want to upset the brands that they advertise with. Brands might not want to work with you if they see your content promoting other products for free.
Typically shows that don’t rely on advertising like HBO, Netflix, and Apple tend to use real products.
I think its a lot whit how its used.
like example from some older bond movies the brand of phone used switches depending on what the phone is used for like the phone used by bond in hero mode was one brand.
but when the bad guy IED maker (Improvised explosive device) need to have a receiver for his/her bomb use a phone (just look at the phone brand).
I think the real problem would be when a brand is paying for product placement. You can't have any other real brands visible or you would dilute the effectiveness and would be sued for breach of contract.
@@paulp4201 The fun one in the UK 2nd Series onwards of The Professionals and then "The Sweeney" , the Good guys got cars from Ford free of charge. Ford also provided the cars for the badies - mostly British Leyland makes
It's product placement. I remember when I was a teen the WB/CW was the worst. Not only would they use real products, but the camera would linger on a product label for way to long.
This video could have been an hour long and it wouldn’t have felt long enough! This is totally a kid in a candy shop feel. Soooo cool!
Absolutely a great segment. Many thanks. When I was in my teens back in 1971 I was doing props for live theatre productions in Australia. It was exhausting work finding props and set dressings that weren't actually the real thing. This segment brought back some memories.
Another cool video of this incredible place! I paused to read the "Cap'n Salty" story, and wow! It actually taught me something true about history! They accidentally say "refused" when it should be "accepted", but otherwise it turns out the story it tells about glass bottom tankards is real! I could literally spend days in there just reading all this fun flavor text we never get to see up close. The details are the best part. Thanks for the great content Tested!
This is fascinating, it’s like looking at products from an alternate universe, where everything is kind of the same but completely different.
The extreme example of this is in Repo Man, where they used the "generic" label products for everything. That particular style of generic label with the blue text on white was an actual thing around 1980 or so, it just didn't go anywhere. Instead, big store chains came up with their own private label brands that would blend in better on the shelf. I never actually saw them in stores, but as a kid I had seen pictures of them in a magazine or on a TV news show, so I recognized them when I saw the movie. Doing a whole store with nothing but those generic labels was a brilliant idea, and they took it farther with silly labels like "drink" or "meat".
It's a marketing nightmare to walk into a store with nothing but row after row of white boxes. The "store brand" needs to be as recognizable at a distance as the name brands.
I'm an avid fan of tv series Supernatural, and I remember the time when the prop designers said they're really enjoyed creating all the fake motel rooms the characters went to and the unique fake beer bottles' title they designed in every episodes. Great times ^^
Oh my god, this is the dream job I never even knew I wanted! I do games development, and one of my favorite tasks is making fake little product props to scatter around the game world. Being able to do it for real would be absolutely amazing!
I guess virtual items are part of what hays can provide too
My travel trailer has about 18 stickers for fake national parks. I have has people look at them and claim they have been to a certain park. My favorite is Lacus Timoris National Park, the first national park on the moon.
Basically the experience of going to Aldi, where everything looks sort of like the name brand, but changed just enough.
1:16 Oh I remember that "Fried Chicken" bucket shown in a few movies and it always got me hungry.
Peter: "Boy, I feel like I haven't eaten in a week. Hey, if we pass a McDaniel's or a Burger Queen, let's hop out."
Quagmire: "Oh, that's right, we're on television."
Joe: "Oh, I'd love a flame-broiled Bopper!"
I was in an art exhibit that was a fake shop that has the branding switched on various products. Eg it had pedigree chum (dog food) toothpaste with Colgate branding. It was weirdly unsettling, like being in a parallel world.
If you walk into an Aldi you'll get that feeling too. Brands and packaging which resemble A-brands but which aren't.
That reminded me of a Reddit post I saw a while back where it was like that but with branding switched between Heinz ketchup and Elmer's school glue, though just the text was switched.
Omega Mart?
Claus oldenburg
I was a Prop PA for 3 years back in the day. Earl Hays was always my favorite prop house to shop and pick up printed props. Fun fact: the current owner of Earl Hays is the grandson, I wanna say he’s in his 20’s.
Fascinating place.
I cannot get enough of stuff like this. 😀
I ALWAYS looked for the fake labels in every Television series and movie I have ever watched ! GREAT video Adam. :)
9:40
"So long after he retired from his life at sea and had died, we decided to put his name on a bag of pretzels. The End."
MORE, MORE, MORE! The Hayes Shop could be a show all on their own. Love all the info about props.
They should make a MythHunters or MemeBusters with Adam on the cover, with some unused or meme myth ("cats have 9 life: plausible") etc :)
I totally want to see shots of a medicine cabinet. All the fake medicine has got to be hilarious.
My favorite thing about cleared products is that they reduce the amount of product placement in films. I freaking DESPISE product placement, as I do ads of any type.
This is very interesting, through a lot of different perspectives: cinephile, nerd, graphic designer, maker, joker, prankster, consumer! Thanks for sharing, Adam and Tested's crew and @PropsToHistory whose channel I'll be checking out next!
This made me smile. All that work for small details that really make a world real.
Awesome ! Thanks for the look into such an interesting process.
It really does look like walking into an alternate universe where everything is almost correct but just a bit off.
It is such a joy seeing Adam geeking out over these things.
"So the Foley guy doesn't hate you." Wonderful. A friend has been a Foley editor for a long time and she would have let out a Wilhelm Scream if they used crinkly bags for chips.
It brings me great comfort to see I am not the only one who can get excited abut stuff like this. :D cheers!
Like Adam, I know the Morley cigarettes from X-Files, but was stunned to see an old style green soft pack of them appear in the original Mission: Impossible. So cool that they've been around so long!
I'll definitely be keeping my eye open more when watching shows to see if I can catch anything, awesome episode!
I loved Tested. As a lover of creativeness, design, and Entertainment I'm right at home with Tested.
Earl Hays is such a magical place. Thanks for shining a light on their significant place in Hollywood yesterday and today.
Adam Savage is a true genius. Not afraid to ask questions or be unaware of something, just fascinated and eager to learn everything he can. We should all be more like Adam
I love this place and the amount of effort that goes to making everything look just right.
It’s like Wacky Packs come to life. Love it.
The graphic design of these faux products is superb! Makes me very happy to see such clever things.
I remember seeing Morley cigarettes in the original Twilight Zone episodes from the 60s. Also, I remember the first time I noticed that propmasters did this. It was Heizler beer in My Name is Earl. Great episode.
Please do more about these kind of objects. As a marketing nerd I love this kind of stuff.
Another great video full of surprises and interesting facts, many thanks.
Have a great day and stay safe,
Joe
This video and the one yesterday, with the documents, have been mind-bending. I love it. One of the most interesting things you have ever done.
"So long after he had retired from his life at sea and had died, we put his name on a bag of pretzels. The End." Fantastic
I love this! I recreated the label for Tankstar Chicken from The Expanse very accurately in Illustrator but I can't find the exact meat can they used on the show to put it on. I found the Chinese company who will sell me 100,000 of them, but I only need one. Ideally, it wouldn't be filled with meat since I'd love to make mine "openable" so I can keep something in it like my personal Protomolecule sample or Amos's Ani Mask pin.
I find it amazing that there's someone out there with a problem like "I can't buy this exact model of can without buying 100,000 of them." That sounds like a very unique problem to have.
@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 It's a recurring issue in prop replication.
This was something really interesting.. keep on giving us this great stuff
This was so entertaining, informative and amusing, had me chuckling throughout 😂 I'd walk a mile for a Camel but probably only a block for a Llama 🤣🤣🤣
I love these! Hope there’s more to come!
I will never see a scene in a grocery store the same way again, i can call the whole scene fake now 🤣
LOL The tv shows that I seen with REAL products in their stores was CHUCK and SUPERSTORE. The difference was instead of one company's product in one part the isle like normal stores they mixed products.
They missed a trick not making Hays crisps as a spoof of Lays crisps!!!
Ahhhhh, true!
Yes, love learning about functional movie props! I remember when Scott Reeder (ScottPropandRoll) did a video on Vinyl bags and it (silently) shook me to my core. The dad jokes didn't help either
is that a different person from the metal bass player?
@@espalier Yes
@@espalier He's a prop master that is based in Texas (he's currently working on the new Walker, Texas Ranger). If I understood his video right he "invented" silent pool balls. As said above his channel's name is ScottPropandRoll and brace yourself for the dad jokes...
Scott Reeder's channel is great. It would be awesome to see a video with Adam, Scott and Michael together.
I love this kinda of stuff!! Thanks for sharing this video!
These are such awesome videos!!
I had heard about these off brands for years, this was fun to see them. Especially since some of them have been cited as the links connecting the Tommy Westphal Universe.
The effort put into what becomes like 5 seconds of screen time
Beats paying an army of lawyers
Yeah, that is awesome... to have so many variations that look like a real varieties of products for things like a store. "SMEAT" and Llamas in place of Camels. :) And you usually don't have time to read the actual label when watching a show or movie. So, the props are very convincing. This is a talent I never thought of, but kudos to the development team and designers to make these in such great detail. 😁
That was so much fun.
Thanks Adam and MIchael.
Those silent bags blew my mind first time I heard about them. Gotta hear the actors lines or it just sounds like our zoom calls when snacking 😂
This video was so fun to watch. Thanks Adam!
I instantly noticed "Smeet" (half Spam half Treet) I laughed really loud when I saw this on "Water World"
Such a specific creative art. Absolutely fascinating . Thanks for sharing!
Would be so fun to be a designer for one of these companies. Surprised they didn't get a headshot of Adam to put on the cover of the next Mud Magazine.
So many fun easter eggs to be had. My party piece would be the Lorem Ipsum newspaper.
My favorite videos of yours are you visiting museums, prop shops, and the like
This also feels a bit like walking the grocery aisles at your local dollar store. All the names are ..almost.. right.
I love all the "nuts and bolts" background stuff that goes in to making shows/films. So interesting all of the challenges that have to be solved!
Those 2L soda bottles look no different than certain eras of the generic store brands. Though I guess generic store brands are kind of like a cleared product for the actual retail world.
I am impressed they even go to the detail of tax stamps on a pack of smokes.
Scott Prop and Roll here on UA-cam is a well seasoned propmaster and master of the dad joke. He loves trying to figure out how certain scenes from TV and movies was done and demonstrates it for us. He is hilarious and really knows his stuff
The fake products reminds me of the "Area 52" grocery store. Only those are somehow creepy or disturbing, besides being "not quite".
Adam should definitely see if he could be on the cover of a cleared 'popular mechanics' mag for use. That would definitely be epic.
7:44 the zoom in on Michaels face on the mag! Great job person behind the camera.
I would really enjoy seeing a collaboration with Scott Prop and Roll; he’s done a number of videos on silent bags, greeked products, cleared brands and all sorts of cool stuff.
Props to History AAAAND: UNION STRONG!!
Unions....preventing losers from being fired for over 100 years.....
This reminds me of making RC racecar liveries with Fake brands on it, where you put on parody sponsor names.
This reminds me of the old Jack Finney short story, "The Coin Collector," where a guy one day finds a Woodrow Wilson dime in his change; and when he accidentally spends it, he finds himself in the alternate timeline where the coin originated. In this alternate world, many of the well-known products of our world either have different names (but similar logos), or don't exist at all, because some other brand out-competed them. I like to think that somewhere in the multiverse, Adam and Michael's counterparts are even now laughing about absurd fake product names like Coke and Marlboro and Spam.
Looking at the thumbnail I thought it was a bunch of store brands or something, but they're all completely fake... and yet so real. Fascinating.
I've never quite understood this issue of branded products in movies. Movie studios usually charge for product placement, so why would a company complain about seeing their product in a movie for free?? I could see how they might be upset if the movie is specifically using their product in a negative way, but not when it's just in the background somewhere.
I totally appreciate this as someone who's worked in art departments and has had to come up with crazy labels for mundane products
Now, think about shows like "Sliders," from the early '90s, or any film that deals with alternate universes that has to have the "real" fake brands, and then has "alternate universe" versions that are close, but off in some way.
I love movie industry tidbits that go under the radar, so fascinating.