The Fake Explosive Props Used in Movies!

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  • Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024

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  • @tested
    @tested  9 месяцев назад +26

    Support The Earl Hays Press by checking out their props: www.theearlhayspress.com/memorabilia-prop-shop
    Follow Props to History at: ruclips.net/user/propstohistory

    • @just_saw_dust
      @just_saw_dust 9 месяцев назад +1

      If Adam loves dynamite boxes he should go visit Brent at Cerro Gordo Mines, Ghost Town Living.

  • @MageMelonVT
    @MageMelonVT 9 месяцев назад +159

    I could watch an unlimited number of hours of Adam just digging through this place, and never get bored.

    • @ChefSarah4104
      @ChefSarah4104 9 месяцев назад +4

      Same here

    • @mrscb5303
      @mrscb5303 9 месяцев назад +1

      💯 agree!!!

    • @SaltNBattery
      @SaltNBattery 9 месяцев назад +2

      100%. More of this please.
      To be blunt, I wish Norm would just make his own channel.
      It's so clear that most of us are watching Adam Savage's Tested to watch Adam Savage.
      That's why any video with Norm get's 1/10th the views.

    • @aaronwarrior
      @aaronwarrior 9 месяцев назад

      Yep

  • @keios
    @keios 9 месяцев назад +91

    Only Adam could exclaim "Ooh, plastic explosives!" and make it sound wholesome.

    • @michaelripley4528
      @michaelripley4528 9 месяцев назад +4

      There is nothing like the sweet smell of dynamite in the morning💯

  • @rambysophistry1220
    @rambysophistry1220 9 месяцев назад +71

    So, that Hercules powder box, it actually has an interesting side history. It is based on Hercules Powder Company. It, among many other explosives, also developed solid rocket motors for the US military's nuclear missiles.

    • @stephenrosenthal5337
      @stephenrosenthal5337 9 месяцев назад +12

      Bay Area trivia: The East Bay city of Hercules was a company town of the Hercules powder company.

    • @robertlinke2666
      @robertlinke2666 9 месяцев назад +1

      didnt cgpgray do a video on them, and the missiles and the takoma test range?

    • @rambysophistry1220
      @rambysophistry1220 9 месяцев назад

      @@robertlinke2666 Yes, CGPgray did do a video on coy Tikoi and Hercules Powder Co. Which is where I got the information to make this comment. Hexagons are the bestagons after all.

    • @aureaphilos
      @aureaphilos 6 месяцев назад +1

      I think Brent Underwood at Cerro Gordo (RUclips: Ghost Town Living) has found Hercules Dynamite boxes down in the Union Mine at Cerro Gordo! It would be interesting to do a side-by-side comparison between the movie prop and the real item.

  • @CitizenKang
    @CitizenKang 9 месяцев назад +22

    The Earl Hayes Press needs its own youtube channel just going through all of their archives.

    • @KnightsWithoutATable
      @KnightsWithoutATable 9 месяцев назад +1

      That would be an awesome and chill channel to watch.

    • @shubinternet
      @shubinternet 9 месяцев назад +2

      I think that's called "Props to History", right?

  • @stobe187
    @stobe187 9 месяцев назад +8

    That exact dirty pea soup color C4 label is in Die Hard, recognized it immediately :)

  • @toyfreaks
    @toyfreaks 9 месяцев назад +10

    I mean, at this point, you might as well start a separate Earl Hayes channel. I will watch these over and over!

    • @tested
      @tested  9 месяцев назад +5

      Ha! More to come, too!

    • @toyfreaks
      @toyfreaks 9 месяцев назад +3

      @@tested They could make a business just out of hosting themed scavenger hunts. I would pay $100 a crack to look for items I don't even get to keep! First 5 things off the top of my head:
      1. Saturday Night Fever: Carnival paint can label
      2. Taxi Driver: We Are The People swag
      3. Groundhog Day: Wrestlemania Tickets
      4. Last Action Hero: Sylvester Stallone T2 standee
      5. 2001: A Space Odyssey: Zero G toilet instructions

  • @MiguelPiro
    @MiguelPiro 9 месяцев назад +8

    I'm not from the U.S.A. and I didn't grew up with these labels/boxes/brands, but even I feel nostalgic and could spend hours and hours between those shelves.
    Awesome video and I wouldn't mind spending a (full) day between all those labels/boxes myself!
    Greetings from the Netherlands!

  • @dsolosan
    @dsolosan 9 месяцев назад +6

    11:06 -- the theatre I work for had copies of that exact newspaper that Mike is holding, but I never knew they came from Earl Hays. Some had blank pages inside to help fill them out, which was useful. I could cut those sheets down to 8.5x11 and run them through my printer to make great play-specific newspaper clippings to use on stage.

  • @nathanhiggins860
    @nathanhiggins860 9 месяцев назад +11

    I imagine the back stacks like the endless warehouse at the end of Indiana Jones. Adam just wandering around finding lost treasures. Actually Michael Corrie from the other videos says that's exactly what has happened he has found things they didn't even know they had. Valuable one of a kind items just sitting on a self collecting dust.

    • @CCW-lz6oh
      @CCW-lz6oh 9 месяцев назад +1

      warehouse 13

  • @tomhorsley6566
    @tomhorsley6566 9 месяцев назад +28

    Speaking of boxes of shells, do people really load revolvers by dumping the entire box of shells out and scrabbling to pick up individual bullets rolling around for the camera? That seems to happen in almost every movie (Shawshank Redemption comes to mind).

    • @steveschritz1823
      @steveschritz1823 9 месяцев назад +5

      Probably depends on how the box is packed. Most have a nice little rack that slides out with individual cartridges, but some are packed solid and sideways and you do have to dump them out.

    • @jfbeam
      @jfbeam 9 месяцев назад +1

      Bulk .22... yeap. I've done exactly that. ('tho not the whole box, there's 5000 rounds in that box. the clips only held ten.)

    • @Blazer02LS
      @Blazer02LS 9 месяцев назад +6

      Depends on the ammo. When metallic rounds first appeared it was common to re-use the pouches that had peen used for earlier ammunition types, so you would dump a box of ammo into the pouch and load the rifle/pistol by grabbing individual rounds. Once you are used to it you can load surprisingly fast just by feel. In the time period those movies represent most cartridges did come loose pack and most of the characters would have been involved in some way with the Civil war where they loaded the same way.

  • @stephenlequier9663
    @stephenlequier9663 9 месяцев назад +4

    Adam, I watched you for a long time and not only are you entertaining but educational. I love who you are don’t ever change. I get excited every time a new episode on RUclips pops up. Thank you.

  • @BlakeHelms
    @BlakeHelms 9 месяцев назад +8

    I could watch an entire multi-season series of Adam browsing the aisles! This is so cool!
    Although, the water heater next to all these valuable paper artifacts would keep me up at night.

    • @erinfinn2273
      @erinfinn2273 9 месяцев назад +3

      Wonder how much they spend yearly in desiccant packs. Sure, water heater leakage or explosion is something to worry about, but I'd be more worried about overall humidity.

    • @BlakeHelms
      @BlakeHelms 9 месяцев назад +1

      That’s an excellent point. Presumably they’d want to control humidity to protect them. They must have a monster of an HVAC.

  • @manojavsridhar
    @manojavsridhar 9 месяцев назад +15

    Will be cool if we match back some of the stuff Adam finds with actual movies that we might know!

  • @RealAndySkibba
    @RealAndySkibba 9 месяцев назад +7

    Worked at an ammunition plant for a while. The inert C4 block (M112) for display was a piece of wood painted to match an actual block. At a distance it was pretty convincing. Everything else used real metal parts (marked intert and color coded blue) but matched otherwise.

    • @SystemX1983
      @SystemX1983 9 месяцев назад

      😮 Imagine the shocked faces, if that wooden C4 has a hole drilled with an igniter sticking out ...
      Even those people who don't know about the inert marking ... for those who know, just remove it 😂

  • @MikeKobb
    @MikeKobb 8 месяцев назад +1

    In addition to producing fantastic results, offset presses are just super fun to operate. I'm glad to have had that experience in college, where we used one to print posters and flyers to advertise campus events and movie nights. When I visited London a few years ago, I went out to the Harry Potter exhibition in Leavsden, where they have a display of some of the thousands of "graphics" objects created for the film, like letters, posters, flyers, even Cheeri-Owls cereal boxes. I was captivated. Earl Hays looks like it's like that times 100,000. If I ever got to visit that place, I'm not sure how I'd ever manage to leave.

  • @unklejohn7381
    @unklejohn7381 9 месяцев назад +6

    I love creating paper props! I've reproduced most of the bottle labels from Star Trek all the way to Lucy's Vitameatavegamin bottle label (which can be seen on the RPF). I would LOVE to work for this company!

  • @PlutoniumBoss
    @PlutoniumBoss 9 месяцев назад +2

    The fact that the PRIMARY SOURCE is making these prints available to the public is insane. I bet producers of reproductions everywhere are simultaneously celebrating and lamenting, because they can finally see exactly what was on the original object but no one is going to be able to sell something as accurate and genuine as this. You just can't compete.

  • @ibanezleftyclub
    @ibanezleftyclub 9 месяцев назад +3

    It’s like watching a puppy in a dog park, in all the best ways.
    I really hope they let Adam take a few of these home, they would look great in a framed collage, it’s not like they have enough lol

  • @romanglinnik8073
    @romanglinnik8073 2 месяца назад

    Nothing more captivating than seeing Adam get obsessed over unique collections.

  • @JudgeRightly
    @JudgeRightly 8 месяцев назад +2

    "Kid-in-a-candy-store"-Adam is best Adam.

  • @vokin
    @vokin 9 месяцев назад +1

    I love Adam, but I find it hilarious that he says that he's "being very careful to put things back where I found them" and seems to be taking it seriously when it does occur to him. But then he also goes to the explosives section, gets so excited by it all, and he immediately puts the dynamite wrapper box back with the label not facing out and then puts the C3/C4 box back in a different place from where he took it out.

  • @Guardian_Arias
    @Guardian_Arias 9 месяцев назад +2

    My favorite part is adam opening random boxes, looking inside, and softly speaking "oohh yeahhh"

  • @michaelholmstrom7677
    @michaelholmstrom7677 9 месяцев назад +2

    The irony of Adam talking about explosives/guns next to a water heater is amazing.

  • @BlueSkyScholar
    @BlueSkyScholar 9 месяцев назад +6

    Years ago I wrapped a fake label around a road flare and gave it some sweat stain. An incoming boss (with great pride, I'm on my third) saw it sitting on my shelf of shame, he about had a heart attack on the spot. Apparently years ago he was working in tunnels at NASA and came upon some very old liquified Hercules product in an out building, it was concluded by people in the know that rather than try to dispose of properly to just let it go building and all.

  • @patrickdiehl6813
    @patrickdiehl6813 9 месяцев назад +3

    An absolute joy to see and have Adam as our host.👍

  • @Ivanovitch2885
    @Ivanovitch2885 9 месяцев назад +1

    I'd love to rifle through there and get some of those labels for goofy chochkies to put on my desk or work bench. A brick of inert modeling clay wrapped with the C4 labels, a piece of broomhandle wrapped with a dynamite wrapper and a fake fuse, etc.

  • @teddyjones8027
    @teddyjones8027 9 месяцев назад +4

    Well done, I absolutely love this video because it's those semi deep dives into art props that I have always been fascinated with and very very rarely get to see. Thank you for sharing, everyone keep yourselves and love ones safe and healthy and remember to SMILE 😊

  • @Cristopher.C
    @Cristopher.C 9 месяцев назад +2

    the way he's rummaging around and whispering to the camera it feels like they just broke in there without any permission from anyone or something xd
    "and now look at this interesting paper.. oh yes.. we can look at a couple more boxes before the police arrives.. oh my gosh yes look at this stuff.."

  • @tracyf.1148
    @tracyf.1148 9 месяцев назад +2

    Is it wrong that my brain went straight to the water heater and the many hours of anxiety and joy those brought to the Mythbusters 😂🚀

    • @tested
      @tested  9 месяцев назад +2

      Not wrong at all!

  • @pixiniarts
    @pixiniarts 9 месяцев назад +3

    Thanks Adam & The Earl Hays Press, love every video in their stacks, their work is gorgeous. 🙏

  • @Bobert-Rob
    @Bobert-Rob 9 месяцев назад +1

    Aw man, Winchester bullet prints? Man, I feel called out, haha. And of course food and dynamite labels are right next to each other there. Explosive flavor!

  • @Games_and_Music
    @Games_and_Music 9 месяцев назад

    9:13 Geez, that gave me a right scare!
    I felt my legs tense up as i instinctively wanted to support the box before it tips over.
    When looking at all the labels and prints, i kept thinking like "ah just sneak one into your pocket", but i think after 5 minutes of snooping around, my pockets would've been stuffed already.
    There's just something about browsing through the physical history of "mundane" movie props that we all take for granted, love to see it.

  • @ericvicaria8648
    @ericvicaria8648 7 месяцев назад +1

    The opening shot of the water heater behind Adam gives me anxiety, not just because the Mythbusters exploded many water heaters, but also because I have seen an old water heater corrode and dump gallons of steaming, rusty water all over a floor and ruin everything around it.

  • @shanejayell
    @shanejayell 9 месяцев назад +2

    I LOVE watching Adam geek out over this stuff. *lol*

  • @hisownsidekick
    @hisownsidekick 9 месяцев назад

    More of these videos forever, please. Thank you.

  • @karim6651
    @karim6651 9 месяцев назад +2

    this series of vids might be my favourite this channel has ever done! dont stop lol

    • @tested
      @tested  9 месяцев назад +2

      More to come!

  • @Exaltedone87
    @Exaltedone87 9 месяцев назад +2

    I'm convinced that Adam hasn't actually left Earl Hays since the first video popped up.

  • @ChefHazmat
    @ChefHazmat 9 месяцев назад

    😂The random Dude Where’s My Car reference at roughly 8:55 with the “No and then.”

  • @williammitchell4417
    @williammitchell4417 9 месяцев назад

    Man alive!! Talk about the kid in the candy store... Adam's shown some before but hey!! We love this kind of stuff!!!

  • @mateuszcielas3362
    @mateuszcielas3362 9 месяцев назад +5

    3:43 why you can't return the heater?

  • @sugoi4983
    @sugoi4983 9 месяцев назад +3

    Adam: I'm making sure it all goes back in order of which i exactly removed them
    Proceeds to put items back on the next shelf in totally random order lol

  • @ARDIZsq
    @ARDIZsq 9 месяцев назад +2

    I imagine this place has to be one of THE coolest places to just walk around and look at stuff.

  • @valentine_puppy
    @valentine_puppy 9 месяцев назад +2

    Well that's sad. I would very much like to see them preserve their history.
    I am writing a show that needs retro materials and it would be a very bad shame
    if Earl Hays shuts down. I really need them to stay open. I will definitely need their
    help should my show get made.

  • @kiomansu
    @kiomansu 9 месяцев назад

    Adam, team; I would be happy to watch you just look, talking out loud to yourself. You don't even have to present as much. It's ASMR-city. An hour of this would be my Christmas.

  • @denvan3143
    @denvan3143 8 месяцев назад

    This is really fascinating. Thanks for these Earl Hayes videos.

  • @ashhawk2346
    @ashhawk2346 9 месяцев назад +1

    My leg twitched in attempt to catch that box Adam nearly dropped..
    It's almost like my brain thought i was in his body 😂

  • @Nexfero
    @Nexfero 8 месяцев назад

    The pastel choice of colour pallets really make it stand out.

  • @joshuaschisser2967
    @joshuaschisser2967 9 месяцев назад

    Hercules Powder was a local San Francisco powder company. Hercules, CA in the North East Bay was a company town. There is a great little restaurant called Powder Keg that has an original Hercules Powder crate on the wall. I actually recognised the typeset before Adam pulled down the box. So cool to see local history on the shelf in Hollywood.

  • @grendelum
    @grendelum 9 месяцев назад +5

    genuinely curious how accurate those hercules powder labels were to the real thing…

  • @Leafsdude
    @Leafsdude 9 месяцев назад +3

    Watching Adam organize everything as he's going through it is such a mood.

  • @archivist17
    @archivist17 9 месяцев назад +3

    And Adam was never seen again. It's said that, to this day, sounds of ghostly giggling can be heard emanating from the archive stacks...

  • @marvindebot3264
    @marvindebot3264 9 месяцев назад

    Earl Hays Press is one of the most amazing places on earth

  • @scottpaddock6685
    @scottpaddock6685 9 месяцев назад +2

    I hope that they have a top shelf fire suppression system there. I see paper stacked by a water heater and am immediately concerned. Also, they have hopefully digitized all of these cinematic artifacts just in case.

  • @jmalmsten
    @jmalmsten 8 месяцев назад

    6:00 - "When in doubt... C4!"
    Sorry, couldn't resist

  • @coltenh581
    @coltenh581 9 месяцев назад

    Understanding stuff like this better leads directly into a better understanding of our actual world. Things like marketing and so on

  • @SaltNBattery
    @SaltNBattery 9 месяцев назад +1

    Way more of these, please.

    • @SaltNBattery
      @SaltNBattery 9 месяцев назад

      With all due respect, Norm really should just make his own channel.
      There's a reason his videos can barely get 1/10th the views that a good Adam video does.
      Most of us are subscribed to Adam Savage's Tested to watch Adam Savage, not Norm Literally Who droning on in monotone about some boring thing.

  • @johnabbottphotography
    @johnabbottphotography 9 месяцев назад +1

    I think Adam is one of the few people who could go through that aisle and legitimately say:
    "Yeah, these look like real explosives"

    • @benjaminpetersen1952
      @benjaminpetersen1952 9 месяцев назад

      Yeah..ya know..except for the people that made the model, since they obviously used a real world reference and got it close enough for someone to comment on its accuracy to begin with.

  • @patrickerwin4922
    @patrickerwin4922 9 месяцев назад +2

    I’d watch a 36 hour series just looking through every single box

  • @popebinga
    @popebinga 9 месяцев назад

    What a glorious place to explore, and I bet with so much old paper it smelled amazing!

  • @RodCornholio
    @RodCornholio 9 месяцев назад +1

    Tremendous amount of Americana-style graphic design.

  • @DigitalOrigami
    @DigitalOrigami 9 месяцев назад

    My life would be so much better if I was surrounded by these almost real labels on everything.

  • @filanfyretracker
    @filanfyretracker 8 месяцев назад +1

    so odds are the C4 wrappers that went around I am assuming blocks of lay in Die Hard probably came from this shop. or are blocks of clay only for star interaction and the rest just around something like a wood block.

  • @PropsToHistory
    @PropsToHistory 9 месяцев назад +2

    The "Meightry" name (pronounced Mee-Tree) is the name of a former pressman. Its used on beer, wine, shotgun shells, bullets, cigarettes, etc.

  • @katkaat
    @katkaat 9 месяцев назад

    Oh man this video was fun. I love old graphics and print like this~

  • @Demetriusninja
    @Demetriusninja 9 месяцев назад

    Holding a box of C4 wrappers from Diehard, and CliffHanger? Man, I would love to have those.

  • @SaturnCanuck
    @SaturnCanuck 9 месяцев назад +1

    My Dad was a printer, both offset and letter press, and he would have a field day there. Some of the labels were "crack-and-peel". Those who know, know.

  • @Bad_Wolf_Media
    @Bad_Wolf_Media 9 месяцев назад

    That paper bag with the "Bang!" (9:28) would be a perfect gag for a Joker scene. Someone finds it, sees the silly sticker, and then the explosive inside goes off.

  • @celticarchie
    @celticarchie 9 месяцев назад

    Adam Savage was last seen entering a prop storage facility... I think we gonna need a search party! ;:P

  • @ChoralPleasure
    @ChoralPleasure 9 месяцев назад

    New unedited oddly meditative videos of Adam searching through these boxes, please

  • @TheAquabears
    @TheAquabears 9 месяцев назад

    Oh man, Hamburger Haven. That is one of three (that I know of) links between Greatest American Hero and The A-Team. It's a fast food franchise that shows up in both series.

  • @DecanFrost
    @DecanFrost 9 месяцев назад +3

    and, with the water heater in the background, now, Adam is borderline a water heater serial killer at this point 😂
    awesome raw reaction video, 12 year old Adam in a candy store, LOVE IT.

  • @tekvax01
    @tekvax01 9 месяцев назад

    Yes! Adam is in label HEAVEN! :)

  • @michaelripley4528
    @michaelripley4528 9 месяцев назад

    There is nothing like the sweet smell of dynamite in the morning💯

  • @ericcarabetta1161
    @ericcarabetta1161 9 месяцев назад

    Oh man, I could spend hours looking through all that cool stuff.

  • @johnderoy916
    @johnderoy916 9 месяцев назад

    Find the Stargate franchise C4 labels - that would be cool - they talked about and used C4 more on that show than any other that I can remember.

  • @CarboniteDreamer
    @CarboniteDreamer 9 месяцев назад +1

    oh man i was hoping he would fine some of the cartridge boxes for bladerunner! man i would be like a kid in a candy store in there.

  • @jackseney571
    @jackseney571 9 месяцев назад

    I wanted to comment on the beautiful water heater co-starring with Adam in the first portion of this video!😮😅😊

  • @beau-urns
    @beau-urns 9 месяцев назад

    Adam: can I walk around un-accompanied, exploring things to my hearts content
    Them: we’d love nothing better

  • @WonkoTheSaneUK
    @WonkoTheSaneUK 9 месяцев назад

    As Jamie always said - "When in doubt, C4!"

  • @TheOpticalFreak
    @TheOpticalFreak 9 месяцев назад

    The Dynamite labels are between aisle C3 and C4! 😄👍

  • @Thepuffingyank
    @Thepuffingyank 9 месяцев назад +1

    that was bang on

  • @Capt.Marco-Hawk-L.L.A.P
    @Capt.Marco-Hawk-L.L.A.P 9 месяцев назад +1

    i could spend hours at that place, but I would need to know what movies they were in

  • @noflooddamage154
    @noflooddamage154 9 месяцев назад

    Please make this into a series!

  • @dcallan812
    @dcallan812 9 месяцев назад

    we need some of the labels on tee-shirts. 👍👍

  • @xpyr
    @xpyr 9 месяцев назад

    Ooh I want the sports almanac 1950-2000 :)

  • @jedifyfe
    @jedifyfe 9 месяцев назад +1

    Those tan C4 labels were the ones used in Die Hard.

  • @holemajora598
    @holemajora598 9 месяцев назад +1

    “Great font” 😂

  • @silviadragoness5904
    @silviadragoness5904 9 месяцев назад

    Y'know that old phrase "Like a kid in a candy store"? _This_ is Adam's candy store. 😛
    I'd love for Adam to get a behind-the-scenes look at the upcoming _Fallout_ streaming series.

  • @vampire_vandal
    @vampire_vandal 9 месяцев назад

    I would love to see if there are any Hercules UNIGEL Dynamite sticks from The Thing

  • @romanglinnik8073
    @romanglinnik8073 2 месяца назад

    "Thank you very much in the back of Earl Hays... HAMBURGERS"

  • @DrRusty5
    @DrRusty5 9 месяцев назад

    A few years ago I had to make a prop "b**b" for a pantomime. I was very happy with my effort even using some hemp-type rope for the "fuse". However, I only wish I had some of those wrappers and labels, even if on a stage the detail is less necessary.

  • @TheOpticalFreak
    @TheOpticalFreak 9 месяцев назад

    Did you really say: and then, and then, No and then!.... And then! 🤣🤣 Dude Awesome!! 😂👍

  • @jasonbrand1984
    @jasonbrand1984 9 месяцев назад +1

    @6:45 was hoping for a "When in doubt..." comment

    • @Games_and_Music
      @Games_and_Music 9 месяцев назад

      That is weirdly the line i quote the most from the show.
      And it mostly revolves around hearing the phrase "when in doubt".
      Or when i hear a word like seafloor, then i'll say "when in doubt... seafloor!", or anything else that rhymes with C4.

  • @thejason189
    @thejason189 9 месяцев назад

    @0:40, OMG, please tell them to put something between the water heater and all that paper! 😮

  • @byronservies4043
    @byronservies4043 9 месяцев назад

    That is the greatest candy store of them all.

  • @AnthonyTusler
    @AnthonyTusler 9 месяцев назад

    I would really appreciate it if Adam would hold the labels still and where we can see them.

  • @patricksanders858
    @patricksanders858 9 месяцев назад

    I want to see the printing processes!

  • @uriituw
    @uriituw 9 месяцев назад +2

    I think my inbox is full of Smeat.

  • @stevenboyd5044
    @stevenboyd5044 9 месяцев назад +1

    I wondered if theyd let you loose in the archives..