Barton Fink
- Thread starter RafalFett
- Start date
RafalFett
Sr Member
I'm back with more paper props.
The 1st one is one of the props I saw in the movie that I wanted to replicate: it's the hotel room notice for guest (or rules and regulations). The only good shot can be seen for a few frames when Barton first enters his room:
If you inspect the screencap, you'll notice that some words and partial sentences are decipherable, but most of the text is guesstimation. I can say that this was a WiP for more than a month (on and off), but I was lucky to find some images of old Rules and Regulation on eBay or Worthpoint, which helped to decipherable the Civil Code section and to fill in some gaps (this is in no way 100% finished):
This should print at 295 x 150 mm.
And my scratch built replica:
The next prop was also a hard one and is visible on some close-up/mid shots:
Can you see it? It's the red/white Old Gold matchbook (again I was lucky to find some great photos on eBay):
I managed to fully recreate the matchbook:
The 1st two images are of the outer and inner prints of the matchbook and should print at 115 x 39 mm (there's a folding line above the striking band and the 2 tops of the red rectangles on the center Old Gold), while the matches at 50 x 30 mm (you'll need to print at least 3 of these).
And my replica:
And some comparison with my 1st attempt (on the left/bottom) and the 2nd one (on the right/top):
The next 2 props were pretty easy to replicate and you can see them in the arriving at the hotel scene:
The hotel guests registry looks huge (in the range of an A2 or 594 x 420 mm) and one blank page should print at 420 x 306 mm, while the Chet note around 150 x 90 mm.
And my replicas:
Have fun!
The 1st one is one of the props I saw in the movie that I wanted to replicate: it's the hotel room notice for guest (or rules and regulations). The only good shot can be seen for a few frames when Barton first enters his room:
If you inspect the screencap, you'll notice that some words and partial sentences are decipherable, but most of the text is guesstimation. I can say that this was a WiP for more than a month (on and off), but I was lucky to find some images of old Rules and Regulation on eBay or Worthpoint, which helped to decipherable the Civil Code section and to fill in some gaps (this is in no way 100% finished):
This should print at 295 x 150 mm.
And my scratch built replica:
The next prop was also a hard one and is visible on some close-up/mid shots:
Can you see it? It's the red/white Old Gold matchbook (again I was lucky to find some great photos on eBay):
I managed to fully recreate the matchbook:
The 1st two images are of the outer and inner prints of the matchbook and should print at 115 x 39 mm (there's a folding line above the striking band and the 2 tops of the red rectangles on the center Old Gold), while the matches at 50 x 30 mm (you'll need to print at least 3 of these).
And my replica:
And some comparison with my 1st attempt (on the left/bottom) and the 2nd one (on the right/top):
The next 2 props were pretty easy to replicate and you can see them in the arriving at the hotel scene:
The hotel guests registry looks huge (in the range of an A2 or 594 x 420 mm) and one blank page should print at 420 x 306 mm, while the Chet note around 150 x 90 mm.
And my replicas:
Have fun!
Thank you RafalFett
RafalFett
Sr Member
You're welcome!
RafalFett
Sr Member
While this prop looks pretty easy to make, I actually had some trouble doing the logo:
In the end I settled with the Los Angeles City logo:
Then traced the eagle from this photo:
And finally added the lightning bolts:
I did it to one of the standard sizes: 90 x 50 mm.
And my props:
For now, these concludes my Barton Fink replicas.
In the end I settled with the Los Angeles City logo:
Then traced the eagle from this photo:
And finally added the lightning bolts:
I did it to one of the standard sizes: 90 x 50 mm.
And my props:
For now, these concludes my Barton Fink replicas.
Last edited:
RafalFett
Sr Member
Let's move this thread to the top!
It always bothered me the drawing on W. P. Mayhew's book dust cover, more exactly the poor quality I did using the low-res screen caps. Because recently I reanimated my love for hand drawing, I used a LED light pad to fully redraw the cover art, then scanned it and after I did some lighting adjustments, I vectorized it:
In the 2nd image you can see the new (left half) and old (right half) art.
Another thing that bothered me, was the poor quality of W. P. Mayhew, so I run it through Topaz Photo AI:
New photo (left half) vs old photo (right half).
Regarding the text on the back of the cover, as I already said in this thread, I took from the same newspaper showing Mayhew's portrait. As we all recently learned, Earl Hays Press used its own generic newspaper for countless movies/TV shows with only important information and photos added according to the productions request. Half of the text I took from the newspaper was made up for the movie, but the other half was a generic text multiplied, sometimes on the same page:
The text in the red rectangles are the generic ones; the text and photo from the green rectangle was used as the primary text on the back of the book with some additional info taken from the blue rectangle. The comparison page is a screencap from the Back to the Future: The Ultimate Visual History, which is borrowable on archive.org ==> Back to the Future : the ultimate visual history : Klastorin, Michael, author : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive.
And here is the new dust cover for W. P. Mayhew's book:
It always bothered me the drawing on W. P. Mayhew's book dust cover, more exactly the poor quality I did using the low-res screen caps. Because recently I reanimated my love for hand drawing, I used a LED light pad to fully redraw the cover art, then scanned it and after I did some lighting adjustments, I vectorized it:
In the 2nd image you can see the new (left half) and old (right half) art.
Another thing that bothered me, was the poor quality of W. P. Mayhew, so I run it through Topaz Photo AI:
New photo (left half) vs old photo (right half).
Regarding the text on the back of the cover, as I already said in this thread, I took from the same newspaper showing Mayhew's portrait. As we all recently learned, Earl Hays Press used its own generic newspaper for countless movies/TV shows with only important information and photos added according to the productions request. Half of the text I took from the newspaper was made up for the movie, but the other half was a generic text multiplied, sometimes on the same page:
The text in the red rectangles are the generic ones; the text and photo from the green rectangle was used as the primary text on the back of the book with some additional info taken from the blue rectangle. The comparison page is a screencap from the Back to the Future: The Ultimate Visual History, which is borrowable on archive.org ==> Back to the Future : the ultimate visual history : Klastorin, Michael, author : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive.
And here is the new dust cover for W. P. Mayhew's book:
Last edited:
Similar threads
