While I continue looking for inspiration for my “lab equipment” props for events (see my thread here), I’ve been looking into the various background props at the Paranormal Research Center in Frozen Empire.
Now that I can actually take good screenshots in 4K I was able to find this one pretty easily, it’s the control panel for the Ionic Separator which features in several closeups:
It’s a rented prop from Electro Props UK:
https://www.electroprops.co.uk/props/metal-cased-practical-desktop-console-P1725.html
I’m assuming they provided many other props for production, similar to how Modern Props LA provided a lot of background props for GB2.
It looks like production may have made a few minor changes to it for filming.
They have hundreds of props cataloged in their website, so I’ll have to find some time to go through it and see what else I might recognise.
One that did immediately jump out at me is a Narda 8616: https://www.electroprops.co.uk/props/handheld-em-field-detector-geiger-counter-P1655.html
Could this be the actual same prop that Lars uses? It’s a possibility, but I haven’t been able to screen match the film prop to their photo (there’s some differences in labels/stickets but all of this could have been changed in the years since the website photo was taken).
I wonder if one of these is behind Venkman in his office?
Still, interesting stuff and should provide lots of inspiration!
