#identifying props

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1970s Grundig Audiorama spherical speakers, as seen in High-Rise (2015)

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Noguchi table, designed by Isamu Noguchi and first sold in 1947, as seen in Boomerang (1992)

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Polaroid Spectra camera, as seen being used incorrectly in Speed (1994)

(source 1, 2)

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Magis Chair_One, designed by Konstantin Grcic in 2003; and De Sede 151 lounge chair, designed by Jane Worthington in 1990; as seen in Stranger Than Fiction (2006)

Production Design by Kevin Thompson Art Direction by Craig Jackson Set Decoration by Ford Wheeler

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SGI Iris Indigo workstation, first released 1991, as seen in The Paper (1994)

(source)

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Zenith 8-S-463 (or possibly 6-J-463) console radio, first sold in 1940, as seen in Clue (1985)

(Pictures: Retro Radio Restore)

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RCA Victor 15X bakelite radio, as seen in the background of The Maltese Falcon (1941)

As far as I can tell, this design was introduced in 1940, but variations of it kept being produced until 1948 (sources: pics; model info)

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Love that this control panel from Virtuosity (1995) has a Logitech "Cyberman" joystick and an NES controller just sort of glued onto it

Same prop would show up again, a year later, in the Wayans brothers spoof movie, Don't be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood

I assumed it'd been constructed for it as an intentional joke, since the NES controller is so obvious, so it's funny that they actually got it secondhand from a "serious" movie