Watch: Making a Movie Prop - Deckard's Police Badge in 'Blade Runner'

"We're going to be printing these with the original cuts used to make them, on the original press they were printed on..." This will be one of the geekiest videos you watch all year. But that is what makes it so good. Adam Savage's Tested YouTube channel recently posted this video of Savage visiting a legendary prop shop in Hollywood called Earl Hayes Press. During his visit to the shop, the staff decide to treat Adam to a one-of-a-kind, brand new sci-fi prop "replica" of – the police badge ID card from Ridley Scott's Blade Runner (1982). Savage is a huge geek for these kind of props, and learns about how it's made. Something so simple and tiny and barely visible in the movie is made with as much care and craft as all of the sets and costumes and everything else. They make a new ID from scratch - using the exact same material, same patterns, same machinery, and same finishing techniques that were used in the 1980s when Earl Hayes Press was hired to make this exact police badge for the original production. How awesome is that?! This is movie geek heaven. // Continue Reading ›

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