Use of Actual Vintage Arms as Props in Early Films

[DaveA]

The dagger is from Bhutan.

Amazing to me how often I recognize a prop in a scene and it instantly ruins the dramatic aspect. Pure comedy. The remake of The Magnificent Seven features a scene with a knife fighter carrying not one but three knives from different continents and eras. He must have quite a backstory!

Originally Posted by werecow

Again, not an early film, but was watching Dune: Prophecy, and, well...

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I think there's at least one ethnographic arms expert on staff in Hollywood doing the rounds in the SF and Fantasy circuit. Which one of you is it?

EDIT: Argh. I don't know why this forum keeps flipping my pictures. But you know what it is.